Mash It Up! Combining Hot Rods and F1 is a Great Idea
When I saw the face of a ’32 Ford 3-window framed by tires as wide as the Brooklyn bridge, I was smitten. When I saw the car “Double Trouble” (Done in the same fashion as the one above.) at SEMA last year, and it floored me.
This goes beyond pro-touring, beyond retro-rod, to something new, something further. It’s a combination of eras and technology that no one had approached, like those 8-figure carbon fiber sail boats; a power source from Columbus mixed with the building process used by today’s most exclusive cars. These renderings by Aaron Beck grabbed me with the same ferocity.
Aaron Beck creates digital things like this for a living (He’s also an impressive fabricator.). He works at a company called Weta Workshop, where he has been tapped to do special effects on little movies like Avatar, Elysium, The Lovely Bones, and District 9. You know, those small projects that make a “jillion” dollars and stun our eyes and minds.
These vehicles look damn close to real, but he probably did them on a walk to the bathroom.
“The idea came to me while sketching in a meeting at Weta Workshop when we were working on early pre-production concept design for Mad Max 4 way back in early 2009. I’ve always loved the function-driven look of F1 cars and started sketching the aero onto the body of a ’32 Ford three-window coupe. It all seemed to work together surprisingly well – to me at least!”
I’d say it worked. The classic hot rods have several panels that mirror the shape of a racing tire. Their roofs are wide and flat, curving down into a simple vertical fall that was at the front of manufacturing possibilities back then for mass-produced cars. It’s strange to wrap something so old with the suspension and aero of a modern F1 car, but I think it’s one of the coolest looking things I’ve ever seen.
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Story Source: SpeedHunters
Image credit to Aaron Beck, go look at this site! And you gotta see his ’73 “Kuda” project.
www.aaronbeck.com
www.beckkustoms.com
www.ebodies.blogspot.com
Zack Klapman is a Senior Editor for The Smoking Tire, and produces “TUNED” and “BIG MUSCLE” on the /DRIVE Network. He can be found on Twitter.