LMP? look-alike on Chicago expressway

[Gangrel]

So...a few days ago my wife and I were returning home from a weekend away, and as we were on I-94 heading west to the NW suburbs of Chicago, someone drove past us in what appeared to be some kind of single seater LMP type car, complete with a wide, straight rear wing and low sidepods around a raised, enclosed cockpit. Aside from those bare details, I couldn't tell you anything else about it from observation. I would doubt myself as perhaps having had a daydream, except the wife saw it too. She's not a racing type, so not much useful information could be gleaned from her description. Hell, if you asked her what it looked like, she'd tell you it was yellow. :D

Anyhow, anyone have any reasonable guesses as to what it was I actually saw?

[cameraman]

It look like this?

http://www.ultimacars.com/images/gallery/threegtrs.jpg

[Gangrel]

It look like this?

http://www.ultimacars.com/images/gallery/threegtrs.jpg

I can't say for sure, but it certainly looks like it to me!

[cameraman]

What I can't fathom is why anyone would spend ~$100K for that kit, engine & transaxle to get a tube framed knock off of an LMP.

The same money gets you a M6 or a 911 or a Panoz...
:shakehead

[Gangrel]

What I can't fathom is why anyone would spend ~$100K for that kit, engine & transaxle to get a tube framed knock off of an LMP.

The same money gets you a M6 or a 911 or a Panoz...
:shakehead

Yeah, but a 911 doesn't hold the 0-60-0 record. ;)

[cameraman]

I'm sure they have a suicide watch on Wendelin Wiedeking :rolleyes:

[Gangrel]

I'm sure they have a suicide watch on Wendelin Wiedeking :rolleyes:

I just couldn't believe this LMP looking thingie was cruising past me on an Illinois toll road. A little bit on the surreal side...

[G.]

I just couldn't believe this LMP looking thingie was cruising past me on an Illinois toll road. A little bit on the surreal side...I can't believe it didn't have spinners on it.


It didn't have spinners, did it? :gomer:

[cameraman]

You think that you are joking.

There is a 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet cruising around this town with motorized spinners and full purple neon undercar lighting :shakehead :cry:

[Gangrel]

lmao

umm....no spinners. :rofl:

[chop456]

What I can't fathom is why anyone would spend ~$100K for that kit, engine & transaxle to get a tube framed knock off of an LMP.

The same money gets you a M6 or a 911 or a Panoz...
:shakehead
Or a Daytona Prototype. :gomer:





You sure it wasn't these guys?
http://www.fototime.com/23C07636B3D944F/standard.jpg

:D

[devilmaster]

I always watched that show as a kid for that car....

Why would you pay upwards of 100 grand for a kit when you could get an ariel atom 2 for 2/3rds of the price? And in the 300 hp config she will probably beat almost anything out there in the 0-60-0 test

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/ariel-atom-2-car-front.jpg

[devilmaster]

What I can't fathom is why anyone would spend ~$100K for that kit, engine & transaxle to get a tube framed knock off of an LMP.

The same money gets you a M6 or a 911 or a Panoz...
:shakehead

People and money sometimes......

There used to be a company here called Fiero Conversions. They'd kit out a Fiero to 'try' and look like almost anything else.

http://www.fieroconversions.com/images/cust2.jpg

http://www.fieroconversions.com/images/cust4.jpg

http://www.fieroconversions.com/images/cust5.jpg

[Gangrel]

They ever make one look like a webber grill? How about a fireplace? Oh! Oh! A campfire, complete with marshmallows! :rofl:

[CARTNUT]

They ever make one look like a webber grill? :rofl:

Almost:
http://www.artic.edu/saic/art/images/brg03_bmcCutcheon.jpg

[Spicoli]

[QUOTE=devilmaster]People and money sometimes......

There used to be a company here called Fiero Conversions. They'd kit out a Fiero to 'try' and look like almost anything else.

:rofl: I remember some guy back a dozen years ago or so had one of those that was supposed to be a Ferrari package. He was a real douchebag. Slimey mo-fo with chains and stuff, used to cruise the bars ad show off his "Project Ferrari" (srsly - he called it that).

we made fun of him to the point he took his show to another part of town - or maybe the POS finally just fell apart.

Upon reflection - was this, perhaps, the beginning of the ricer BooM! :saywhat:

[RacinM3]

These can be made street-legal as well....www.radicalsportscars.com
http://www.radicalsportscars.com/usa/2006_news/homestead06/wayne%20game%20on.jpg