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Mergatti veyron

Heywood

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Chuckled at the picture and then laughed out load at this..."but we wouldn't have expected them to use, of all things, a Mercury Cougar platform as their starting point"

http://ca.autoblog.com/2013/03/19/find-of-the-day-33k-bugatti-veyron-replica-gone-wrong/
 

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4-lug front wheels, and 5-lug rear wheels. When I saw that, I thought for a moment that maybe they did a mid engine/transaxle layout, but no such luck.
 
The way the article was written I thought it was just this moron that put the kit on a cougar. The old pics don't exist anymore but I'll venture on a limb and say those other ones at 80k must have been a helluva lot nicer than this one.

plus:
"Scrolling through the photos we quickly realized it would be far easier to compile a list of things done right on this build than the plethora of things sautéed in wrong-sauce. Said list would read as follows: Nothing."

 
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