Photo: Mecum
If you look hard enough, under the shiny-red, weird-looking body of this car are the genes of a 1965 Ford Thunderbird. They’re diluted to the max, these genes, by a customization process that gave birth to something called Starbird.
The full name of this project is 1965 Starbird Custom Ken Stallion Roadster, and we found it sitting on the lot of cars going under the Mecum hammer later this week in Las Vegas. It plans on selling with no reserve, betting people will find it appealing enough to spend a lot of cash for it.
The Starbird is described as a hand-built steel body on tubular frame, and it rests on 18-inch American racing wheels. These spin courtesy of a GM-sourced 350ci (5.7-liter) engine of undisclosed power, but rocking 2-barrel Edelbrock carburetors and an automatic transmission. Helping the car behave properly while on the road are independent suspension front and rear, and brakes taken from a 1998 Ford Mustang.
Shaped in a way that is reminiscent of other iconic cars off the past decades, including the Shelby Cobra at the front and the Corvette at the rear, this one sure has the potential of being a real head-turner.
But what’s really disappointing about it is the interior. Put together by a Los Angeles shop called Rich & Famous, it rocks black leather all around, and that’s fine, and Alpine stereo, and that’s fine too, and one big iPad slapped on the center of the dashboard, in a large recess that probably makes the things shown on the tablet extremely hard to read by those inside the car. And that looks awful (check gallery for more).
According to the sellers, the machine shows just 200 miles (322 km) of use since the build was completed, and that means it’s practically brand new.
We’ll keep an eye out and return to this story once we learn for how much the Starbird sold, if it manages to do so.
The Starbird is described as a hand-built steel body on tubular frame, and it rests on 18-inch American racing wheels. These spin courtesy of a GM-sourced 350ci (5.7-liter) engine of undisclosed power, but rocking 2-barrel Edelbrock carburetors and an automatic transmission. Helping the car behave properly while on the road are independent suspension front and rear, and brakes taken from a 1998 Ford Mustang.
Shaped in a way that is reminiscent of other iconic cars off the past decades, including the Shelby Cobra at the front and the Corvette at the rear, this one sure has the potential of being a real head-turner.
But what’s really disappointing about it is the interior. Put together by a Los Angeles shop called Rich & Famous, it rocks black leather all around, and that’s fine, and Alpine stereo, and that’s fine too, and one big iPad slapped on the center of the dashboard, in a large recess that probably makes the things shown on the tablet extremely hard to read by those inside the car. And that looks awful (check gallery for more).
According to the sellers, the machine shows just 200 miles (322 km) of use since the build was completed, and that means it’s practically brand new.
We’ll keep an eye out and return to this story once we learn for how much the Starbird sold, if it manages to do so.
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