Gotham Garage is known for imagination and creativity in creating new looks for cars, these ten are their best!

If you are trying to describe it to a car fan who has never watched "Car Master: Get Rich by Rust", you can simply describe it as American Choppers encountering Wheeler Dealer's Trading Up and All Girls Garage. Although it didn't break new ground in the car-themed TV field, no one really cared because the team at Gotham Garage was interesting, and the vehicle proved that horsepower is not the real currency for custom cars. Imagination is.

Mark Towle, the owner of Gotham Garage, claimed that these cars would "talk" and tell him what they want to be: T-Bucket dreams of becoming a C-Cab fire truck, a Chevy Impala longing for a huge tunnel gate to pass through it. cap. Whether the manufacturer really hears the car or just feels the build, it will be useful to him.

Here are 10 completed works that deserve to be called the coolest works.

Interestingly, the cleanest and most "hygienic" build on the list came in at number 10. It's not that this Fleetside is not a sweet journey, it's just the least "external" part of this team. But in fact, the more you look at it, the more you like it: it hits the Corvette suspension and is equipped with disposable Gotham Garage wheels, so the unsprung weight is relatively low for monster-sized rims. You only know that it is more like a sports car than the previous truck.

Raise your eyes slightly and they will be attracted by the transparent glass cutouts on the hood, which show the gem-like speed stack on the LS air intake. Ripping yourself away from those dazzling candies, the barbed wire-themed grill may seem ordinary at first glance, but it's certainly not. Inside, the blood-red modern interior makes the truck amazing both inside and outside. But it is still only 10th on the list.

A trailer is used for hauling, and 454 drives this 1940 Ford, you know it will do just that. This truck doesn't have any exquisiteness, but that doesn't mean it has no exciting details. First, the railway crossing lights were reused as high-position brake lights, or shield-shaped metal fenders suspended behind the rear dual axles. When you get back there, be sure to look at the work winch hanging from the elegantly curved trailing arm, topped with the iconic 4-Aces pattern of the Gotham Garage. Perhaps the most whimsical aspect of this construction is that the Peterbilt mud flap split and reused as a sling.

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From the weathered appearance to the bat-shaped cutout in the battery strap, to the exposed...well...everything, no details are overlooked or left to chance. If this truck shows up on your AAA call for help, you may not feel completely relieved, but you will be impressed.

For the guys in Gotham's garage, this must be bittersweet. Refitting the Barris Custom into a car that anyone can buy and drive is an amazing feat of reverse engineering—especially an iconic one like the original Batmobile. However, the high-quality work done by Mark Thor is what led him to be sued by Warner Bros. Studios. If the cars he made were not so precise, practical, and unbelievable, he might not be taken to court. But this proved his amazing ability, and the production of this car was shut down by the country's second highest court.

In 1955, Ford brought an amazing vision for the future to auto show participants: Lincoln Futura. This car has wings, bubble top, and dive from start to finish, bringing the space age theme that automakers started playing to an unprecedented extreme. Gotham Garage recreates this automobile history using a fiberglass body cast from the original mold-almost nothing else. They used internal water jets and hours of hand-polished aluminum materials to hand-craft the "roll-top" dashboard and slatted grill. The "yoke" steering wheel is also made entirely in-house, using Mark to collect other things for a while. If you don't open the hood (because it is located on a modern chassis and drivetrain), seeing this car is like going back to Futura.

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Oh, if it looks a lot like the Batmobile (#8), it's because it is the same car. George Barris doesn't have much time to make things for the show, so he uses the Futura show car, which has been parked in his store for many years.

There is a customizer. There are builders. There are also a few truly talented people who can take a toy and use it as a blueprint for a life-size, fully maneuverable car. This is what the team at Gotham Garage did with Splittinimage. Based on the C4 Corvette chassis and drivetrain, everything else is handmade because there is no buffer for parts that never existed in the car.

Although they outsourced the double cockpit made of bulletproof lexan to an aircraft manufacturing company, everything else—including the body mold—was done by the talented team at Gotham Garage. A hand-made exhaust pipe flows down the center of the car-but at the top instead of the bottom-in front of which is a polished, non-functional supercharger body, which holds the air filter and The original design was accurately captured. If you have always wanted to be able to drive one of your toys from childhood, then these are the people you can talk to.

Like Splittinimage, Mach 5 never existed before Mark Towle decided to build it. Like the car above, the Mach 5 is based on the C4 Corvette. But this is the similarity. This car is as close as possible to the Speed ​​Racer ride. But since it is street legal, sadly the blades and automatic jacks do not work. However, the look, feel and some of the appearance of the performance can be enjoyed by you.

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Most Mach 5 (he made several) are powered by LT1, but any engine suitable for C4 will work. And because the new body is about 1,000 pounds lighter than the original car, its acceleration and handling performance is excellent no matter what engine is used. But perhaps most importantly, Mark avoided the Batmobile problem through licensing. Therefore, if you are a big fan of Speed ​​Racer, then there is no barrier between you and the car of your dreams-except for the time it takes to build a car.

If the '32-'35 Ford Victoria was the most popular hot rod of the 90s, then Green Vicky is the most unexpected reimagined ever. Starting with the stripping of the running boards and mudguards, the team turned a humming hi boy into a forgivable hot rod. She has copper tones, deep concave black wheels and a spider web grill. Inspired by Tucker and Citroen, Green Vicky's headlights rotate with the front wheels, so you can see the corners. Everyone knows that the purpose of a hot rod is to break it down into basic elements to make it fast, but it is a great way to add more safety and craftsmanship to the experience. This amazing reinterpretation of traditional fishing rods helped Green Vicky enter the top 5.

More than 21,000,000 Volkswagen Beetles were produced between 1938 and 2003, and you can imagine that many of them have been improved over the years. Baja Bugs, drag racing, custom kit cars, anything you can think of may have been done to the Beetle. So this is another sign of Gotham Garage's creativity, that is, they came up with things that no one had seen before.

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Beginning in 73 years after a crash, the team built the tilted, stretched spyder entirely from parts around the store. The iconic element of the building, the circular rear deck is actually an ingenious reuse of the roof, flipped backwards and trimmed to fit. The sturdy front axle is installed in front of the hood, giving the car a classic hot rod appearance and magnified by the traditional split DuVall windshield. But, of course, the twist is that there is nothing classic about it, because it is a mistake!

Although the sales volume of the '64 model on the day was 50% higher than its predecessor, its popularity today is much lower, and its value across the entire range of conditions is reduced by 25%. Therefore, it is not a tragedy that the team filled the Gotham garage with residents of this garbage dump. Although certainly inspired by the limited edition Sport Roadster edition, which covers the rear seats with fiberglass rear seats and turns the four-seater convertible into an amazing two-seater, this one-time standalone edition is Unique.

By cutting off the top (closed), creating a jet/racing-style fairing and chrome-coating the car, the team transformed it from a sleepy boulevard cruiser into a unique creative power course. If the original 390 FE were a runner, it could certainly provide good power to the car with its factory 303 horsepower and 390 feet/lb of torque. But the 302 that replaces it is lighter and provides enough power to ensure that the car can restore its appearance. This combination of boldness and creativity put the T-Bird rocket car firmly in second place.

The Volkswagen of the 1960s and 70s will forever be intertwined with the hippie movement. However, when facing Frank'N'Bus, the power of peace, love and flowers will be the most distant things in your heart. The words stretch, chop and peel have not even begun to describe what happened to this previous mild example of milquetoast driving. A 72-horsepower, air-cooled, flat 4-cylinder is suspended at the rear, replaced by a rear-mounted mid-engine, 700-horsepower supercharged V8. From the tug. It is isolated from passengers by a 1-inch-thick bulletproof glass panel, so you can watch the business of turning fossil fuels into noise at an amazing speed, making sure you know that if it decides to do so, you will be safe but change the fuel Into a projectile.

The factory suspension is also gone, it is not ready to handle the weight or torque of this motor at all. Instead, a newly made boxed ladder frame can hold them together. To help carry the extra weight and length-and raise the exciting quotient by several notches-a third shaft was added before the power shaft.

This truly original work may not have brought the six-figure payday that Mark Thor had hoped for, but it proved the ability and vision of this brave team. Its literally stretched thinking makes it the craziest and coolest creation of Gotham Garage to date. Frankly speaking, season 2 hasn't come fast enough.

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