You want to be really innovative....Do it on the cheap, with junk!!

We all get sick of seeing cars in magazines with the best of and state of the art everything and a $100,000 or higher build price. They don't impress me-anyone can buy a car and make it fast or cool if you throw enough money at it. What I think would be cool is build something really unique on an alternative bodystyle. I.E,-not a Camaro, Chevelle, Mustang or Challenger with an LS motor, a Coyote, or an SRT8 Hemi. What about a 1987 Olds Cutlass? A 350 or 403 Olds V8 would bolt right in place of the anemic 307. What if you used the fuel injection system off a 1976-79 Cadillac Seville? ( Sevilles had 350 Olds engines these years, with a Bosch K-Jetronic style throttle-body injection system that worked damn good. The fact that you still see them running around occasionally 30+ years later is a testament to how reliable they actually were. ) With the right cam,compression, and gears-including an overdrive trans-you could easily run 13 second 1/4s, get 20 mpg, and have a build price of 15-20K, including the purchase price of the car. Now that would impress me. What about a 2WD Dodge Dakota pickup from the '90's with a 5-speed stick and a 318? Or a 360 powered Dakoka R/T?  See how fast you can go AND remain Emissions-legal. How about a mid-'80's Firebird or Trans-Am with a 400 Pontiac engine with aluminum Edelbrock heads-and a custom made fuel-injection system. I don't mean a $3800 aftermarket setup from Accel or Edelbrock, I'm talking casting a base-plate that will bolt to REAL Pontiac heads and use Tuned Port Injection runners and electronics. Or taking an Edelbrock or Offenhauser Pontiac Dual Quad manifold and adapting two 454 Chevy truck throttle bodies-ala' "Cross-Fire Injection", except they'd be inline on the manifold.  How cool would that be?  How about a 1977-79 Ford Ranchero with a fuel-injected 460 under that long hood?  What about stuffing a 351W based 392 or 427 stroker into a 1991-95 Thunderbird in place of the 302? What about taking the Supercharged 3.8 V6 out of a wrecked Riviera or Pontiac Bonneville and putting it in a '90's Firebird and turning up the boost and adding nitrous? Stuff like that would impress me far more than another LS motored, $100,000 piece of someone elses garage jewelry. Mastermind