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The Cressida took the win over the Maxima in our Rear-Drive Japanese Sedan Hoonage Edition poll on Wednesday, though not by a decisive margin. Perhaps that's because the Cressida and Maxima are so similar to each other, but we're not going to have that issue today! 57Sweptside has found some hell projects that, while cool, don't have much more in common than the year of manufacture; 57Sweptside gets a coveted PCH Tipster T-shirt for his role in filling some lucky soul's garage with eternal damnation happiness! In 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower popularized the term "Military-Industrial Complex" in his farewell address , but what about the Rust-Missing Parts Complex that dominates your typical 1961 Hell Project? You'll have an even more tenuous connection to your sanity than Eisenhower does to Project Car Hell when you peel off 45 Benjamins to obtain this pair of 1961 Lincoln Continental convertibles . Some of you quitters might take one look at those photos and...
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What with all the racin' madness lately, I haven't had a chance to descend into the lake of burning 90-weight that is Project Car Hell for a few days. In our last matchup, we almost had an upset for the ages, with a Japanese car nearly beating a French car in the Dangel Peugeot Wagon versus V8 Fairlady poll . And that Peugeot was a tough one, too! You fans of Japanese Car Hell can feel proud... or ashamed, depending on how you look at it. Today we're getting away from the PCH Superpowers and mixing it up a bit, with a perennial German Choose Your Eternity favorite going up against a proud Detroit native. We had a 928 here just a couple weeks ago, but the cool/hell equation is just irresistible with Porsche's front-engine V8 machine. It's fast, good-looking, sold for vast sums when new, and has a scary-sleazeball Tony Montana aura you just can't deny... and you can find them dirt cheap nowadays. Well, dirt cheap provided you're willing to fix everything a few...
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As most of you know by now, the Shorty Chopped Corvair was judged to be cooler/more hellish than the T-Bird-esque Auto Union 1000SP by the voters in Friday's Choose Your Eternity poll. With all the G8amino excitement today, we're going to turn away from two-strokers and groovy customs and get straight to some car-with-truck-bed goodness. The problem with an El Camino as a Project Car Hell entrant is that it's just too easy . Even the most decrepit example shares most of its components with made-by-the-millions cars that benefit from a vast reproduction parts industry and pool of junkyard parts, making the parts-obtainment process nowhere near hellish enough. But when you get into an El Camino that's been converted into a drag race car in someone's back yard... well, now we're talking! See, what you really want to take to the dragstrip is a vehicle with apocalyptic amounts of power combined with zero weight over the drive wheels, preferably with drum brakes on at...
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Most Choose Your Eternity polls give you a choice between two Hell Projects; for example, you can choose between two impossible Czech projects (and, in most cases, you will take the Tatra over the Skoda). However, after we voted on my personal PCH dilemma , another one of our Jalopnik writers went ahead and bought a hellishly cool project car without bothering to consult the readers! Yes, He Who Shall Remain Nameless (for now) got himself a 1964 suicide-door Continental , yet he's not sure which particular kind of hell he would prefer to have searing the flesh from his bones. This is where you, dear readers, come in! Put on your polling caps and cast your vote for the type of project you think best suits this fine example of Landyachtus Detroitus. Remember, Project Car Hell holds a great- though nearly impossible to attain- completed project as the bait that keeps you toiling in the Lake of Fiyah, so vote for the choice you think has both the hottest flames and the most tantalizing end...
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Looks like Canada beats Italy in yesterday's Project Car Hell poll , though not by what we'd call a decisive margin. But that was yesterday, with yesterday's priorities; today we're going to honor Jalopnik Pimp Week by posing a Pimpmobile Dilemma for...
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