As beginnings go, it could have gone better. The completed car was needed in a hurry for a motor show in the US so it was added to the cargo manifest of a liner rather than a slower cargo ship. Unfortunately, that ship was the Andrea Doria.
1967 Plymouth Barracuda.
Another bit of trivia, the Barracuda is the car the Ghia was based on. The earliest 450SS’ sold included a Barracuda owners manual with the non pertinent pages crossed out with pencil.
Body kits are usually fucking awful, and £20K on a £3K shopping trolley is just retarded - but wannabes made-up to look like something they are not are fucking TRAGIC!
MR2s got-up as 355s are pretty common - or were: probably/hopefully rotted-away by now.
This side of the pond it was Pontiac Fieros done up as 308s . . .
Wasn’t a body kit you could purchase. They were sold (without GMs approval) through some Pontiac dealers. Customer had to purchase a brand new Fiero, and a company called Corporate Concepts did the conversion.
Perversely, they are now considered collectible due to scarcity (Ferrari sued Corporate Concepts, production was stopped and the moulds were destroyed).
Sound was a dead giveaway