While “The Slug,” a 1960 Morris J2 van in Australia, doesn’t look all that different in its completed form from how it appeared when it sat, sans wheels and tires, in a farmer’s field, that’s by design: An airbag suspension mounted to scratchbuilt notched frame sections helps keep the old van rather low to the ground, as Engine Swap Depot illustrated. Now if only the builder could figure out how to create a slime trail.
* When is a Lamborghini really a DeLorean and at the same time really a Lancia? No, not when it’s a badly-executed replica. Rather, when they’re all essentially the same concept car, designed by Giugiaro and passed among the three companies during the 1980s. The Petrol Stop has more on the concept.
* We know the location of a trio of abandoned lunar rovers, but they’re rather difficult to get to. A lunar rover prototype, however, was abandoned a little closer to home – Alabama, specifically – and just narrowly avoided becoming scrap metal. Vice’s Motherboard has the story.
* What the AMC Pacer really needed to shave off that nerd rep back in the day was a jacked-up four-wheel-drive version, a la the Eagle, and an off-road racing program. As it turns out, it had both, as we see from this old thread on Off-Road Action, though they apparently didn’t help create a popular image of the Pacer as a burly off-roader.
* Finally, Rob Ida, perhaps best known for his Tucker creations and re-creations, is headed to SEMA next week with a 1940 Mercury modified into a Lincoln Zephyr-style three-window coupe.
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