The Blue Mamba is a Snake with Crazy Curves
Sometimes a plan just comes together, and sometimes that plan is just plain crazy. This is what happens when you have a crazy awesome plan that comes together. Behold, the Blue Mamba.
This car is the thing of dreams and nightmares. This Karmann Ghia based car is the brain child of co-owners of Deanz Rodz and Race Carz, Dean and Keith who decided that just swapping in a small block or something lighter was just too little for this piece of automotive art. What did they do? They of course swapped in a 8.3L Viper engine, because tires do not deserve to live.
The car had started out as a customer car who then sold it mid-way through the build. To make sure no one else would show it as their own, the guys bought the car back.
They then decided sanity wasn’t the best option to take the car, so they channeled their inner Carol Shelby and went stark raving mad.
From the bottom to the top of this car, if you could call it that, is all custom. Custom rear-end, custom fenders, custom roll cage, custom rear differential, custom is a word used so much on this car, it’s hard to call it a Ghia.
For me personally, this thing is perfect. Lightweight and overpowered to a point of stupidity. And that’s why I love it. The men are now trying to figure out how to top this.
The Ghia has won about a billion awards and a follow up act is definitely going to be hard to build. However, the task can be done when you have a mad scientist mind like these guys, and I can’t wait to see what they build. But if I could offer a suggestion? Formula 1 V10 in a Corvair? That would be sick!