Making an appearance at the March 2024, Idaho State University ‘Chrome in the Dome’ car show, none other than The Duke! Of course not the dead guy, but a car honoring the dead guy (John Wayne, aka Marion Robert Morrison).
Believe it or else, it took a crazy Idahoan three years to kit-bash one unique, one-off, car out of British and Japanese parts, to honor the United States’ icon of Western movies!
The body is a 1937 Austin Ruby-7, made in the United Kingdom, and the chassis-drivetrain is from a Suzuki Samurai made in Japan! The Ruby-7 was missing most of its floor-pan, and some adjustments needed to be made to get the British body to sit down on the Nipponese frame.
This kit-bashed custom has revolving Revolver exhaust pipes (my video):
It was hard getting walk-around video due to all the Pokies crowding ’round. People loved the plethora of Western gunslinger trinkets plastered all over the hybrid vehicle; the more you looked the more you found:
The builder/owner already has a very tempting offer from a prospective buyer, and another prospector who might join in for a bidding war. This has the builder chomping-at-the-bit to whip-up his next horsepower project (a ’56 Chevy).
Shhh, don’t wake the sleeping Mustang (you know what they say about disturbing wild animals), car show in Chubbuck, February 2024: SLEEPER 1967 MUSTANG