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That’ll Never Get To 88 Before It Hits The Wire


Submitted by: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland via Submit a Kludge!

Favorite Comment: Fixer James says, “I would have never noticed that it’s made out of cardboard if they would have drawn a door handle on that otherwise vividly realistic conversion kit.”

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  1. Static1 says:

    They have reinvented the Edsel

  2. Epic Ideas says:

    even mini vans dress up for Halloween

  3. Gargomon says:

    “By scotts! The flux capacitor overshot us into some sort of badly drawn 2D dimension!”

  4. one small step says:

    De-lorean? More like “de-lusional”!

  5. wa-sho says:

    extreme makeover..
    pimp my ride, ghetto edition?

  6. Truthiness says:

    It gets .21 jigawatts to the gallon. Flux capacitor optional.

  7. dono1 says:

    Back to the Future? More like Back to the Drawing Board.

  8. Maddie says:

    “Marty… I think we’re in the wrong car.”

    • Danny says:

      “No, Doc, it’s cool, see? The future us will just have to take our car when they leave, while we take their improved version of it.”

  9. James says:

    I would have never noticed that it’s made out of cardboard if they would have drawn a door handle on that otherwise vividly realistic conversion kit.

  10. TheAntiCat says:

    Awesome. I once dressed up my 81 Plymouth Horizon like a Radio Flyer wagon. It was already red, so I painted the steel rims white with a red center cap & welded a wagon handle to the front bumper. Than me & my friends launched down a hill!

  11. TheAntiCat says:

    Is that a Libyan in the foreground?

  12. leila says:

    That was 1985, not ‘88. Date fail?

  13. Daniel says:

    It is actually better than some body kits I have seen from the F&F crowd.

  14. Husabob says:

    The vehicle is obviously not a piece of crap… at least not until they taped cardboard to it. Even the trailer has the proper safety chains. NOT a kludge! ps… I wonder what’s on the trailer :>0

    • chaos4ever says:

      People on that trailer, most likely. Looks like it was for a Homecoming Parade a few weekends ago.

      • spyke says:

        Yup, it was homecoming. The theme was something like CWRU Spartans through the Decades. This is what happens when you convince a bunch of nerdy frat boys to make a float.

  15. Toni04 says:

    What were they thinking? Why do people do things like this? Why am I asking these questions?

    • TheAntiCat says:

      Don’t ask questions around here stranger. You don’t want to know how we get rid of bodies in these parts.

  16. Stopher says:

    “Don’t be dissin’ my Delorian” said an angry Ronald McDonald as he spun the chain tightly gripped in his fist. “You gonna see a big Mac Attack with my special sauce!”

  17. waldo says:

    Definitly

    Delorean wallabes. Possibly the safest vehicle on the road today. It will only follow the white lines.

  18. Chris says:

    This is what happens to your DeLorean when you take their plutonium and, in return, give them a shoddy bomb casing filled with used pinball machine parts.

  19. Theo says:

    On the plus side, I could probably afford it.

  20. Lady J says:

    The new delorean: now includes tow cable

  21. leedsb says:

    It’s pretty obvious that this will work since there’s duct tape involved

  22. max says:

    You cant tow with a Delorean

  23. kablaamee says:

    I wonder if they hadn’t written DeLorean in large caps, would anyone have guessed what it was??lol

    • Bruce says:

      Max: Actually, you can tow with a DeLorean – At least 1,500#, perhaps more… If you can get a safe custom hitch designed and installed, you can tow with almost any car – just have to watch the gross weight and tongue weight limits.

      (Oh, and the installer has to know how to spread the load out onto a Unibody properly, or we’ll be continuing this discussion over in FAIL Blog.)

      I’ve seen people tow with Corvettes, Lamborghinis, VW Beetles, Morris Mini’s…

      That’s a TransSport or Lumina minivan in the photo above, and Dad has a hitch on his.

      My ‘61 Corvair has had a hitch since new and I’ve taken 1000# utility trailers all over the place with it. Just make sure you tap the pedal to keep the drum brakes dry when towing in the rain – and BOY there’s a story behind that comment…

  24. DubbaC says:

    1.21 Giga-what’s?

  25. Laughing-self Silly says:

    Crappy costume pulling who-knows-what for a parade float?

    —–

    “Aw dude! I totally forgot that the parade was today. Whaddar we gonna do for a float, man?”
    “Uh, uh… Quick get me that cardboard, duct tape and a sharpie…”

  26. ecco6t9 says:

    At this point it should just say “Time Machine”.

  27. William says:

    When this baby reaches 88 mph, you’re gonna see some parts fall off!

  28. snotnose says:

    I’ll bet this was what John Delorean used to spirit all his nose candy around

  29. Stefan says:

    That cardboard makes a perfect gull-wing door.

  30. sintekk says:

    …Crazy Hessler Street people. I live a few blocks from there and this doesn’t surprise me one bit.

  31. james says:

    i hope they overhauled the fusebox, 1.21 Gigawatts is a whole lotta power

  32. imshandon says:

    ….This just in.After a complete buy out from the US Government Chrysler released the 2011 line of there latest mini-van.

    Pelosi responded “This design is reported to be very green for we used 100% recycled cardboard with low impact inking.This design alone will cure the fever of the planet and solve the Globel Warming li…ur..problem.”

  33. MMR says:

    This looks like a prop for a “sweded” version of Back to The Future.

  34. BobbyMcheese says:

    Oh my god! It’s a-. Wait, thats just a carboard cutout of a delorean on a van.


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