Thanks to Barn Finds reader Andre for alerting us to this…unusual creation! We’re not told much from the ad, either, but you can look at it yourself here on kijiji, where the car is called a “Rat Rod Classic.” I would argue it is neither of those in it’s current state! Should you want to drive it to experience the stares you’ll get, you can find the car in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Okay, let’s start to dissect this thing. Judging from the wheels and the greenhouse that is still visible inside the windows of the 1940 Ford components, I think we have a Pontiac under the skins, possibly a 1997-2003 Grand Prix or a Grand Am of similar vintage.
The front clip looks like a mixture of 1974 to 1981 Camaro panels and the Pontiac hood and — well — I have no clue where the bumpers, grill guard, grill and whatever that roundish thing at the bottom is came from.
Your guess is as good as mine on the tail lights. And where did the fenders go? Wider wheels/tires and the original fenders would help this out visually…oh heck, what am I talking about. There’s nothing much that would help this out. The seller is marketing it as a nice body for sale. I’m not sure about that either! But — it IS something that will get ALL kinds of looks ANYWHERE you go! So what do you think? Is the question mark in the title alcohol-related?
What we have here is the result of consuming too much Moosehead Lager in the depths of January
Soon to be in the NEXT Star Wars Movie….
Canadian engineering at its best brought to you from the fine people at Labatts Brewing. Cold, drunk, and misguided is no way to go through life. This is an abomination.
MAD MAX, BEYOND THUNDER BAY!!!
It’s worth $1500 just for the laughs you’d get! If it was closer to me, I’d probably snag it up! Be willing to bet you could even win a few trophies with it. Just not sure in what class. 😂
I’m sure Max would certainly be mad about driving this and probably choose to walk
We’ve seen the junk pile here before too.
I thought I’ve seen this junk here before!
yup – just didn’t have the hideous front bumper
Never posted before, just a lurker however this is one time I’m not proud to say I’m Canadian
It’s the Abomination Snowman.
Oh boy, eh?
“I name you Platypus”…
“Why Platypus”?
“Why not”.
Not sure I’d buy it but could see myself building it. Looks like fun for a laugh!
Not even remotely interesting to me.
Yet you looked it up and chose to comment on it…
Reminds me of that old Johnny Cash song, “I Got It One Piece At A Time”.
“body is worth thousands”. Now isn’t that an optimistic description! A thousand laughs maybe, a thousand antacid tablets, a thousand questions on what the person was on that did this?
Then they can’t even market this abomination properly. Someone call the car crusher, please!
Holy Macaroni Batman! The Riddler must be at it again…
Red Green and the other members of the Possum Lodge have been busy!
To paraphrase: “If you can’t make it handsome, at least make it handy.”
Nope. No visible duct tape. Red Green didn’t build this, but he could definitely fix it!
Harold’s school project.
They pained THE CAR! Barris would be proud.
The only hope for this would be turning it in to a monster truck.
I was thinking that this could be a creation by Bob and Doug McKenzie, after consuming a two four of their favorite lager.
I think whoever built this thing, realized it looked a whole lot better on paper, than in reality, and gave up.
a two four of Elsinore of course. Be careful parking this in public as it might get horked.
Oh no, this thing again. And—amazingly enough—it looks even worse than the last time it was listed here!
As for the alcohol needed to make such a thing, I think we’re well past booze and deep into the psychedelics.
WTF ,is about it😛
Whatever it is, whoever built it deserves a
gold star for effort and creativity. I’ve seen quite a few home built cars in my life but this one takes the cake. Would
love to have seen how they grafted the
Ford body to the Pontiac FWD floor pan.
I would also liked to have seen photos of
the car’s interior to see what they did
inside to accomodate the dimensions of
both cars to make this space usable.
One thing I can tell you, you’ll never see
another one like it!
They did nothing to change the interior since they kept basically the entire Pontiac passenger space including the roof, windows and windshield…and then glued some body panels ON TOP of the existing structure. The Ford panels were widened to cover up the car underneath, which is why this thing has awkward split front and back window areas (but no glass, since the original Pontiac pieces still remain)
Basically this is the car equivalent of a mascot at Disneyworld. What looks like a 7 foot tall Mickey Mouse actually just has a bored teenager inside.
This is why I drink gallons of beer…on a semi daily basis…,LOL..,
I can’t un-see this..,but I can try to forget it…,along with the workday.!
I wish I had the energy used to build it . WoW…that was built with some
kinda “methspiration”…How..,why…?….OH the humanity…….
… or the lack of humanity in the decisionmaking of this beast? Perhaps the best course of action might be to rip off the front sheet metal facade, replace them with actual ’40 OEM or replacement panels, and try to convert into at least a decent driver that doesn’t burn your eyes out of their sockets!
…and then – the peyote kicked in.
If it’d been peyote that kicked in, none of this disaster would’ve happened as the builder would’ve not found the energy to do squat with it (or so I’ve heard). However, his design drawings would’ve looked glorious!!!
This should be marketed to hockey moms and dads all over Canada and the Northeast United States as the perfect team hauler. The kids would love it, there is room on top for the stinky hockey bags and nobody would dare park next to it at the local Boston Pizza. I wonder how fast they can make some more?
Aside from the owners obvious abhorrence to good taste and style, this car was never a 40 Ford. Possibly a 1937 or 1938 sedan body. It appears to be a good candidate for the crusher to save everybody from seeing it again.
can you link it up with all the comments from the last time it was on this site?
I think i threw up in my mouth a little bit.
I’ve been having a hard time getting to sleep lately. AND NOW THIS! I knew I should have closed the email after that beautiful 50 Ford. Just knew it.
I think some one had fun with parts laying around and a project of lets see what we can make. If tweakers (Meth addicts) had built it it would have never gotten this far, would have fizzled out early on.
Personally Id finish some details and make it driveable, and put some big emblems on it that are made up from a variety of sources and not easily identified, and get some stuff in French on various parts and make a French sounding name, slap it on there. Make up a good story of some obscure automaker and equally outlandish tale about their company origins..
Make it French! I LIKE that!!
I’m almost a bit embarrassed to be Canadian right now….
Ugh. The problem with something like this is that you cannot unsee it.
I guess this THING as you might call it, accomplished what it was supposed to. It got a variety of comments.
Appears to be a DIY Transformer.
Yes, for those wondering, the winters are very long in Thunder Bay and clearly this fellow’s Netflix subscription ran out.
this THING is still for sale sitting in a parking lot just outside of Thunder Bay. I have driven by this THING about 10 times and each time it get harder to look at
I embarrassed that it’s in Canada let aone Thunder Bay:-)
Quick! Kill it with a stick!!!!!
That thing is about turd ugly ! ! !
I think I’m gonna need several more drinks before this creation make any kind of sense to me.
Has the face a mother wouldn’t even love…
I think I see parts of my Pontiac Vibe (RIP) in there somewhere.
To me, this is kinda like that “odd” girl in college who you were strangely attracted to yet didn’t know exactly why:
Has some cool parts, but they are in weird places and out of proportion to the overall piece of work. You’d “drive” both of them, but probably only at night on back roads where you could safely assume no one but you would be getting any real fun out of it.