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1969 Chevy Camaro “Illusion” by Relentless Rides Doesn't Have an Engine

The '69 Camaro is one of the most iconic muscle cars ever made. You just see the SS badge and you go "OMG", but this next project is more "WTF" than anything else, from the weird design to the lack of an engine.
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It's called the Camaro "Illusion" and was presented last year at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. We've seen some really weird stuff over the years, but this just screams "kill me now, I'm an abomination" from every pore.

First of all, it's very wide, but that should bother anybody. But the way the lines are cut at the doors and the fact that it's got air scoops on the back wing… well it just doesn't work.

But the really atrocious parts are at the back, where they stuck a couple of 2014/15 Corvette taillights, a diffuser that has no place on a Camaro and some odd-looking exhaust tips.

There's some nice work going on with the chassis upgrades, like better suspension and brakes, but the horrible design just kills it for us. The interior is just as bad, with cherry red carbon fiber seat backs, ostrich leather and some weird mesh inserts.

And why did they bring a half-finished car to SEMA? At first, we thought the name "Illusion" name was given because it's not supposed to have anything under the bonnet. But no, we dug a little deeper and found the original sketches for the car, which you can check out below. You'll probably agree that what came out is like school kids built a Chip Foose car without supervision and didn't even finish it on time.

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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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