These Are the Weirdest One-Off Cars Ever Built

“The Sir Vival, currently undergoing restoration at the Lane Museum in Nashville.”

“The Aston Martin Cygnet V8. Basically it’s the fancy cousin of the Toyota/Scion iQ, that got a 4.7 liter V8 engine swap from a Vantage S. It was commissioned by Aston as a one-off.

“It also had the front and rear subframe from a Vantage S, along with the 19 inch wheels, brakes, track width, suspension, and the 7 speed automated manual transmission swapped in as well.

“It made 430hp, did 0-60 in around 4 seconds or so, top speed was 170mph, and it weights about 3000 lbs.”

“What if a 1971 Pontiac Firebird and a Ferrari Daytona had a baby? It’s an insane question, but GM came up with this answer:

“It has a Ferrari V12 engine, as well as some Italian styling cues on a Firebird body.”

“BMW 750 with a V16 and trunk mounted radiator. Goldfisch.”

“The Phantom Corsair. I’ve always thought it looked like its designers were inspired by a horseshoe crab.”

“Lamborghini has to make this list, so I will nominate perhaps the weirdest one of them all: Egoista

“As for probably the coolest one-off Lambo ever to be sold to a customer, I’d have to nominate the Aventador J.”

“Some of the recent one-off Ferraris just look really off lately.

“They take an already good looking base and throw odd parts onto them to make them different. The last one is by far the worst.

“This one belongs to Eric Clapton.”

“Golf W12 has gotta be up there, and it was so close to making it to production.”

“Shelby Daytona Type 65 ‘Super Coupe’ (Chassis CSB3054) with the 427ci. It had a completely redesigned body by original designer Pete Brock. As the front had to be extended to accommodate the 427 block. And, since that changed the dynamics of car, he had to reshape the whole thing.

“It was supposed to be ready for Le Mans 1965, but they didn’t get it finished in time. In fact, it wasn’t fully ‘completed’ until years later. It sat unfinished at Shelby American, as the GT40 program took over everything, until the car changed hands several times before falling in the lap of Craig Sutherland. He immediately tasked Mike Dopudja to finish its build in consultation with Pete Brock. And so, 15 years after the project was originally conceived, it was finally finished in 1981.

“2300lbs with 500HP. Estimated top speed: 205.

“This would have been a Cobra, that could have not only whooped the Ferrari GTOs easily, but also the 330 P3 Prototypes!”

“The Cadillac Sixteen. 1,000 HP / 1,000 lb/ft 13.6l V16.”

“Mazda Furai. Triple rotor mid engine beauty.

“Too gorgeous for this world unfortunately 😔”

“Anything by George Barris has to make the list. Random vehicles from Barris.com below. I can keep going. Even in his later years, Barris made some weird stuff. Like the GTO roadster from about 10 years ago.”

“The BMW M3 Pickup.

“When Australian Car Culture and German Car Culture have a one night stand.”

“Youabian Puma has to be in the conversation. It’s mostly just... unpleasant to look at, but it’s also huge and trainwreck like so it’s hard not to look at it. Also, apparently it came with free letters threatening legal action of some sort if you expressed displeasure with its appearances.

“I never got one though, so maybe I need to have a bigger audience 🤔

“BTW, does anyone know if that legal action was ever brought forward?”

“The Maybach Exelero. The stated purpose for it was to test tires for Fulda, but it was just an insane Batmobile. Ended up in a Jay-Z video, a few animes, a German action show.”