A#@%holes of the Century.........

Hustler magazine used to have a column titled "Asshole of the Month". This title usually went to a celebrity or politician who did something incredibly stupid-Like the Heavy-Metal guitarist who did "RAD" ads-"Rock Against Drugs" for MTV and then got busted for posession of cocaine. Or the woman who founded MADD-Mothers Against Drunk Drivers-taking a six-figure job as an executive for Seagram's, Or the Congressman that railed against Gay marriage and then got caught trying to pick up a guy in an airport men's room.  I've said before that we should have a column like this for Automotive offenders. Here's a few that I saw recently that made me think these people ought to to be dragged out into the street and shot, then drawn and quartered, and their entrails cut out and burned.  I think you'll agree.  Asshole of the Century # 1. This car was featured in a national magazine and got hate mail from everyone-musclecar fans, Import tuners, Concours show enthusiasts-everyone wanted to storm this guy's house with torches. Why? Because he took a pristine 1967 Camaro and put the engine and drivetrain out of a 1990's Toyota Supra in it!!!  Why would you do that?  People bitch when someone puts an LS motor in a classic Chevelle, or a Rat motor into a Firebird, but at least that's GM to GM swapping and understandable, and a lot of people would  still buy a Rat-motored Firebird or LS engined Malibu. But nobody wants a Toyota powered Camaro!!!  The Toyota guys railed about him gutting a Rare Supra, and the Chevy guys wanted to crucify him for screwing up a classic Camaro. I hope he wants to keep it the rest of his life, because he'll never be able to sell it. And the guy was clueless-he couldn't understand why everyone including the magazine that featured it-was calling him an asshole. Like Ron White says-"You can't Fix Stupid".  Asshole of the Century # 2. This guy spent $250,000-that's not a typo-I didn't mean 25K, I meant a quarter of a million dollars-building a 1970 Chevelle with a DuraMax TurboDiesel and Allison Transmission out of a 2011 GMC truck. Again, we ask Why???  For 50K-one-fifth of what he spent-he could have put a 638 hp LS9 and six speed out of a ZR1 'Vette in it and been faster, and cooler and still have 200 grand left to buy a nice house anywhere in the US except maybe New York or California. Or for 30K he could have put the 720 hp ZZ572 Rat motor in it and backed it with a race-prepped TH400 or 4lL80e and proper suspension. And still been cool. Who wants a '70 Chevelle with heart of a Dualie tow rig?   Asshole of the Century # 3. This guy put a 389 Pontiac into a '57 T-Bird!!!  Blasphemy most foul!!!  This one angered GM guys and Ford guys alike. Yeah the old 292 and 312 Y-blocks were slugs. If he wanted more oomph-why didn't he swap in a 351W or even a 390?  This is worse than.....Asshole of the Century # 4. This guy put a Chevy LS motor into a 1990 Mustang GT. How does a brain work that way?  I know guys that are running 10s with 302 and 347 Ford motors, so it's not to go faster. And there's ten times the speed equipment for small-block Fords at half the price of LS stuff, so it's not lower cost. Let's see-"I'll spend twice as much money and three times the grief as it would cost to build a stompin' Ford motor, to put a Chevy into a Mustang and not go any faster than it would have with a Ford V8."  "That's a great idea!!" Again-you own that for life-GM guys and Ford guys alike won't touch it with a ten-foot pole.  Asshole of the Century # 5. This guy built a Cobra replica kit car-....with the Turbocharged 6 cylinder engine and all-wheel drive drive drivetrain out of a Volvo XC90!!!   Like Ditka says on Monday NIght Football-"Come on, Man!!"  I know it's only a kit car. But a Kit Cobra is a replica of an AMERICAN Icon. He could have built it-obviously with any Ford engine, or a small-block Chevy,- I've even seen these built with Chrysler Hemis and no one cares. But a Volvo powered Cobra?  That's sick and wrong in anybody's book.  These examples show that there's a lot of people out there with more money than brains. Mastermind