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• How to Build A Phantom Caprice [Custom Cars]

  Remember Autorama last spring? Remember the insane Caprice/Rolls Royce Phantom mashup that sported 30-inch wheels? Now, nearly a year later, we can show you photos of how the creation was created. Seems the fellows at Spate--and here comes that word again--Creations are master sculptors, as the entire nose was preformed in closed-cell foam then skinned with fiberglass. Translation: That's some goddamn creativity! We also get details on exactly what kind of money went into creating this one-of-a-kind...ahhh yeaaahhh...creation! galleryPost('phantomdonk', 6, 'Spate Creations Phantom Conversion'); Plastic surgery is never cheap, and this is no exception. Putting a Rolls nose on a Chevy seems to have had an impressive price tag. Rumors place it in the neighborhood of $150,000. But what's above the bottom line on that total? A $23,000 572 cubic-inch supercharged Merlin marine engine, for one thing. And those flashy TIS 30s run up to about $20 large. Candy-apple paint... Posted Feb 01 2008, 07:15 AM by Jalopnik Filed under: custom cars, caprice, Phantom, Royce, Rolls, donks, Bubbles, Boxes