"What's that coming over the hill??"

[Mystery Machine]

"Is it a Monster??"

It sure is.......





















And the man himself....Franco Sbarro: LEGEND!!!


I mean, fitting wheels off a Boeing FFS - you don't get much more WIN than that. ;D

www.francosbarro-livre.ch/en/sbarro-concept-cars.html



So lets see some other retro monsters.........

[HoTWire]

Bits of a Porsche 944 in that... but the engine is a 6.9 Litre V8 from Mercedes Benz, 350bhp. A proper monster!

[akku]

Jesus.

No other words!

Other than wondering how long before you own it/one?

[cortinaman]

Sbarro is as mad as a box of frogs!

Retro Monster:-



Zagato Alfa SZ


Blitzen Benz -
from here with some other aero engined monsters.

www.airportjournals.com/Display.cfm?varID=0611015

[Mystery Machine]

I remember seeing it in 'some' magazine back in the late 80's (or maybe early 90's??) and just staring at the pics thinking: WOW!

It really got me hooked on the idea of how a 'custom' didn't just have to be a roof chop, rover V8 and big fat rear wheels. It was my first Sbarro discovery and have loved his work ever since. It dosen't all hit the spot. Most of it does, but not all of it.

The Monster, however, will always be one of those 'defining' cars for me. I'll never forget reading how a crazy Italian guy living in Switzerland had crafted the vehicle pretty much from scratch and fitted the wheels off a frickin jet plane! Epic stuff to a teenager.

[eightsix]

Knowing Brooooose, he will already be looking into it! Looks awesome.

Some very strong hints of that in the design of the L200!

[stonyray]

I totally thought Porsch 944 aswel, perhaps a retro project for someone, make your 944 look like that??



a potatshop I know but cool or what??



cool as curse word civic!!


check out farmer giles of ham there cruising with his 36 inch rimz!




more? just ask google for monster car

[popuptoaster]

Reminds me a bit of the Aton Impulse.

[Deleted]

Got some Capri looks in there too ;D

Is there anything Sbarro didn't do? Most of my 'Concept Cars' books from the 1980s and all my Top Trumps cards are riddled with Sbarro

[Mystery Machine]

Jan 19, 2010 18:28:57 GMT popuptoaster said:

Reminds me a bit of the Aton Impulse.

Thank you SOOO much for posting that up!

I've had this photo sat on my computer for [quite a few] years. Found it by chance on a random google search. LOVED the look of it, but never knew what it was. Until just now....



Thanks again....you've answered an age old MM mystery. ;D ;D

[Lawsy]

must be where vw have got inspiration for this..

concept T





more images here
uk.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A03uv8ZA_1VLfxoAU3dLBQx.?ei=UTF-8&p=vw%20concept%20t&fr2=tab-web&fr=ytff1-sunm

[chip83]

A couple from me
Lada niva

And the real Lunch box

[skinnylew]

wow Sbarro is a nutta!! At first i though it was maybe a Treser/germanic creation but as i scrolled down Sbarro made more and more sense. The guys has built some legendary stuff, i believe there is a museum full of it somewhere?!?!?
Citroen stuff is mad!!





Rinspeed are another similar bunch of mad men!

[warnzee]

The piccy posted above by stonyray reminded me of watching monster truck videos when i was a kid and seeing 'Monstervette' ;D

That thing was my favourite vehicle for years

A quick Google search threw some random pics -







Can't seem to find a pic of the original though, i'll keep looking, but in the meantime here's a vid of it in action



Went to Cardiff for Monster Jam last year, the sound they make is unbelieveable!

[MWF]

I remember Monstervette I think, wasn't it an older corvette and the whole body lifted up to get at the engine?

[MWF]

Oh here ya go

[tofufi]

Speaking of Sbarro...

[chip83]