The Worst Appearance Mods

[RayGumm]

saw this last week in Louisville, KY on my motorcycle trip.
entire car covered w/ marbles.

That's actually kinda cool...

 

[BlazingTrails]

That would require an immense amount of time and patience!!

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

I like it

 

[gpking]

I saw a Ford Exploder parked outside of the Italian Restaurant I was picking up carryout from and it nearly made me vomit I cringed so hard.
Basically, it had three of those tiny fender air vents glued on each side with a big Peterbilt-looking fake fender air vent behind it (so 4 vents on each side).
Of course, it had mandatory pin striping and clip art flame decals, chrome everything.
I wasn't aware Exploders came with OEM 4X4 decals, but this one appeared to have them.
In addition to those, a large blue Microsoft Word 2003 Word Art-looking huge (6"x12") blue 4X4 decal was sloppily slapped on the rear fender on both sides in case you couldn't see the OEM decal.
It only got worse, above the front windshield were about a dozen of those tiny chrome spikes (like this). In the center was a tiny little antenna, with another broken one mounted next to it.
To top it all off, the sunroof had a big black rainguard with an over-sized K&N sticker stuck on it.

I would have taken a picture, but I feared my phone might have broken.
Or worse, the owner would have asked me what I was doing, and I would have had to lie and say I thought it looked cool.

 

[IllogicTC]

You don't have to say it looked cool. What are they going to do, sue for snapping a photo in a public place? People be snapping photos of everything these days.

 

[gpking]

You don't have to say it looked cool. What are they going to do, sue for snapping a photo in a public place? People be snapping photos of everything these days.

I meant the owner of the car, who probably took great pride in collecting mismatched decals and supergluing on fake air vents and plastic bling-bling.
Surely someone who owned a masterpiece such as that would want to know why someone was dry heaving and taking pictures of their car.

Anyone else wouldn't have needed to ask what I was doing. [emoji13]

 

[BlazingTrails]

Galant ..that car needs to be put out of its misery.

 

[IllogicTC]

Not sure if worst, or best. Talking about the rotors, the calipers were shaved to install different wheels and THAT is indeed a by-product of WORST.

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

I see no problem shaving calipers to fit wheels. Lots of the jk's I wheel with do it to run 15s

 

[The_Roadie]

But the Pacman (probably Ms. Pacman) rotors. Where do you even BUY those?!?

 

[BlazingTrails]

That's crazy! Those must be custom made. Why spend the money on the rotors and then grind calipers? Lmao

 

[Aarkon]

But the Pacman (probably Ms. Pacman) rotors. Where do you even BUY those?!?

R1 concepts will cut custom rotors like that

 

[mcsteven]

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Galant ..that car needs to be put out of its misery.

That sucks. I had a 2000 Galant and it was really good. Of course I had it painted darker red than what it came as, dark tint on the windows, shaded taillights, dark wheels, no chrome, black painted emblems and grill, and kept it a real sleeper. No spoiler but did have a pretty decent front and rear air dams, the V-6, and pretty good wheels and tires. That thing went pretty well until it got hit. I was stopped and he was doing over 70 miles an hour. He hit me I went into the air, spun, hit the center divide, bounced off, other side hit the center divide, and landed perpendicular to the highway. I thank God & the engineers at Mitsubishi often. When I went to clean out that car the trunk was stuffed right to the backseat, the front-end was bent so the driver side front wheel didn't touch the ground when the other four did, but I was still able to open all four doors.

 

[BlazingTrails]

I just sold my 2001 gallant. I had it for 6 years and put 150k on it. Still ran fine when I sold it

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

I blew up an Eclipse

 

[mcsteven]

I've owned 3 Mitsubishis. The Galant had 150K when it got hit. I owned a four door, four-cylinder garage that had close to 380,000 miles on it when I sold it.

 

[hrddrv]

The infamous Chevy Acura or is that Acura Chevy?

 

[Mounce]

Ew. I hope it at least has had a Chevy motor swapped into it.

 

[IllogicTC]

I see no problem shaving rotors to fit wheels. Lots of the jk's I wheel with do it to run 15s

Oh, shaving the rotors can be okay. "Turning the rotors" and all that.

Look at the CALIPER. Depending on the design, this can lead to stress points, reduced caliper cooling (increasing brake fluid boil potential), or just outright brake fluid blowing out if you shave the wrong spots, or too much. It'd probably be a better bet to try shopping around for calipers designed for the vehicle which sport some different profile.

 

[Sparky]

Grinding the caliper isn't uncommon when trying to fit drag wheels on some cars. In a case like that it is for a drag strip. Most of the time it is just shaving excess casting marks off than anything and won't have negative impacts anyway.

But shaving the calipers on that car... well, I have no idea why.

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

I misspoke...grinding calipers is very common and a non-issue to me. The jeep guys do it all the time. I did it to my rears years ago and still no issues.

 

[IllogicTC]

I misspoke...grinding calipers is very common and a non-issue to me. The jeep guys do it all the time. I did it to my rears years ago and still no issues.

But do you have Pacman rotors to go with it!? Or perhaps Space Invaders, or Mortal Kombat?

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

Contra would be my choice

 

[mcsteven]

The infamous Chevy Acura or is that Acura Chevy?

I betting there's a good reason he's stopped at that sign. Doesn't know which way to go.

I've owned 3 Mitsubishis. The Galant had 150K when it got hit. I owned a four door, four-cylinder garage that had close to 380,000 miles on it when I sold it.

Okay, creating posts using voice recognition. It should've said four-door, four-cylinder Mirage, not garage.

 

[IllogicTC]

Contra would be my choice

That would be cool, but get some Pacman pads to go with the rotors... pad wear indicators would be awesome. WOKKA WOKKA WOKKA WOKKA, and if you get dangerously close to the pad metal, as you're slowing the brake would go WEWEWWEEEEEWWWEEEEEEEEWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWW *complete stop achieved* BLOOP BLOOP.

 

[skamphax0r]

Saw this gem on the drive home.

 

[Blckshdw]

I guess they wanted to make sure they didn't forget and miss Halloween?

 

[skamphax0r]

I wish i could have gotten the front of it..

the entire grill was filled with masks and dolls.

 

[Playsinsnow]

Does anyone else find the "life is short... enjoy your ride" statement amusing with the two tone Exploder? Surely s/he enjoys theirs.

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

Half van - Half UTV

 

[mcsteven]

Three wheeler at that

 

[Chuck Bunyon]

Half van - Half UTV

We used those at Caterpillar. I didn't know they could be street legal. Our had like a single cylinder two stroke 300cc. They were fun to race on our test track.

 

[Darkrider_LS]

There are quite a few of those Lil ki trucks around here

 

[mcsteven]

I've seen a few on the streets around here. A lot of them picking up small junk to go to the recycle yards. Probably the same platform as the parking meter reader buggies.

 

[RayGumm]

He needs more double sided tape chromey bits....

 

[IllogicTC]

20140818_110845.jpg He needs more double sided tape chromey bits....

I like how they waste a few inches of ground clearance just to (yet again) tell you it's a Ford, with that extra plate mount.

 

[BlazingTrails]

 

[Mounce]

 

[BlazingTrails]

 

[Capote]

da fuck?