10 Insane Rides by Boutique Carmakers - Popular Mechanics
His latest, the Venom 1000 Twin Turbo, makes and astonishing 1120 hp and runs through the quarter-mile in 9. 7 seconds. But perhaps the company's most interesting vehicle is the Venom GT. Here is a widened, stretched, and modified Lotus wearing carbon-fiber bodywork. instead, the Venom draws its power from a twin-turbocharged 7. 0-liter, 1244-hp Chevrolet LSX V-8. Woof. That pushes the car to a speed of 265. 7 mph and makes it one of the fastest in the world, and one of the world's greatest thrill machines. Icon began as a top-level restoration house for Toyota Land Cruisers back in the late 1990s, and they continue to restore vehicles to original condition. But it is Icon's wildly reimagined Land Cruisers, Broncos , and Chevy pickups that take modified restoration to an obsessive level. Thriftmaster trucks, based on 1947 to 1953 Chevrolet trucks, are marvelous performers thanks to a modern supercharged (and emissions-legal) GM crate engine, a capable Art Morrison road race-style chassis, and a detailed and luxurious interior. Even the doors of this truck are cool: Icon redesigned the door's latch mechanism as well as all the cranks and pulls, so now this door closes with a solid thunk and the windows power up and down using the original window crank as switches. Source: www.popularmechanics.com
