18 Times Car Owners Tried Something Bold and Failed Gloriously
These photos showcase bold car ideas and DIY modifications that didn’t turn out as planned (or, we hope, weren’t the plan). Cars bring out the wild side in people, and owning one often inspires daring ideas: some ingenious, while others are not so much. Drivers around the world have shown that creativity doesn’t always lead to the results they imagined. Many dream up “genius” fixes or upgrades that sound great in their heads but crash and burn in reality. Here are 18 times car owners went for glory and failed in the most hilarious way.
1. SpongeBob Style on the Streets
2. A Trailer That Turns Heads
3. Rolling Loud
4. The Suburban Batmobile Gets a Nautical Upgrade
5. Street Beast Unleashed
6. A Sweet Ride with Serious Altitude
7. ‘This Dodge Doesn’t Dodge Attention’
8. Spoiler Alert
9. Playtime Meets Drive Time
10. ‘Because 1 wasn’t enough’
11. Urban Frankenstein: The Car That Refused to Be Ordinary
12. ‘Handy Man´s Panel Side or Business Coupe?’
13. ‘This car’s wheels look like they are auditioning for a washing machine commercial’
14. ‘Seen in Miami’
15. Gold Rush on Wheels
16. Hummermobile
17. ‘PontiYACK’
18. ‘Family Roadtrip Lamborghini?’
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