Gary Dourdan’s Abomination
Posted by isecore on March 2nd, 2009
I have a big interest in cars. Especially classic muscle-cars tickle my imagination quite a lot. My absolute favorite among muscle-cars is the 1968 Dodge Charger, which is easily one of the coolest cars ever produced in my opinion. The fabled Mustang can’t hold a candle to it as far as I’m concerned.
So the other night I was slacking off and zapping around the boob-tube and I came across a show called Street Customs. It features West Coast Customs, of “Pimp My Ride”-fame but in their new and much bigger locale. The tone is also much less wacky than Pimp My Ride, and focuses on the various customers and builds produced there.
(Now, before I launch into the tirade I have planned, I gotta say that I find that the more corporate a car-customizer company gets, the more bored I am. When I see shows about custom cars it’s usually the small garage-companies that I feel most akin with, not the huge, gaudy factories such as the one WCC has become)
The episode in question features Gary Dourdan. Gary plays (or used to, I think his character got killed off) Warrick Brown on CSI: Las Vegas. I can’t really comment on Gary as a person since I of course have never met him, but judging from the show he has as a taste in cars that is as tasteless as it is eccentric.
He came in and wanted a Dodge Charger – but with a twist. He wanted a brand-new Charger, but that they should chop off the entire body, keep the chassis, engine, various struts and stuff and plunk a 1968 B-body Charger on top of this thing.
Alright, fine. I figured this was a wacky enough pursuit and since I like the ’68s I decided to watch it.
Well, the resulting car can only be called an abomination in my eyes. It’s a faux-charger, and it looks absolutely awful. First off, why would anyone want a candy-apple green Charger? Chargers should come in strong base-colors. Black, red, orange. Whatever. Not candy-apple Green.
Secondly, everything about it clashes with everything else. The dashboard and all of the interior such as seats are from the “new” Charger. This looks completely out of place with the old body. It’s just awful. To make it even worse, he asked for a confederate flag on the roof – but in african colors! This makes the whole car look even more hideous.
So, this is an abomination. This is a Frankencharger, and not in a good way. Just look at the photos. Anyone with any love for the ‘68 Charger will absolutely loathe this creation. Just look at how the dash clashes with the line of the windshield, or how the wheels look completely out of place. Awful!
August 7th, 2009 at 00:45
So what cool original idea, there is no other car out there like this. So you don’t like it big deal, how many 68 origanl restored chargers are there, my guess thousands. He had the money he wanted a modern car with the oldschool look. I don’t personally like all old rebuilds with new rims either but if we all did the same thing over and over it be a pretty boring world. So your a purist, I understand but get over yourself.
September 11th, 2009 at 23:10
This car is the diggity bomb boy. That is the dopest color on the planet and the flag is genius. I wouldn’t have picked those rims but they look better than undersized factory rims from the original time period. You should respect the man’s originality, and that of the team that produced this rolling work of art, instead of just hatin’ cuz you would have spent your money on just another orange general lee type ride that any fool can have (if you had his kind of $ which I think it’s safe to say you don’t because you’d be too busy doing something constructive to whine about this.)
September 11th, 2009 at 23:17
Sid, all I can say is that why should I listen to some ghetto-wannabe who can barely spell? You sound like some Pimp My Ride-reject, and your taste is that of a glass of water – no taste and no color.
September 19th, 2009 at 23:13
This car is amazingly do not know what you have against him is great!
January 16th, 2010 at 22:29
While I could do without the green, and your right, those big-a$$ rims look ridiculous on a muscle car; everybody knows that the 60’s era Charger had a horrible suspension. And what’s wrong with an updated interior? Hot rodders have been retro-fitting old cars with new parts for decades! This Charger fanatic would like one in orange please! (and make sure the rims are 15’s)