Yahoo Autos Defy All Logic With this Ford-Powered Corvette Monster Truck
Logic is poison in the automotive design world. Govern that world only through sensible decisions and you'd never get absurd boundary pushers like the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ or the building-sized Mercedes-Benz G63 6x6. But the aftermarket build world—where projects need neither make money nor be entirely polished—takes it a step further, resulting in fantastic bits of nonsense like this Ford-powered Corvette monster truck.
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At its heart it's sacrilege. Ford and GM are the feuding families Capulet and Montague, both with zealots insisting their bloodlines never to mix. Yet in the nose of this C3 Corvette is a Ford-sourced V-8. The seller refers to the engine as a 400M, but it's likely a Ford 400 or 351M, as no engine was ever officially designated "400M." Regardless, it's mated to the transmission from a newer C6 Corvette.
All of that would be weird on its own, but suspend it all three feet off the ground and you create something lovely and insane. It's riding on massive mud-terrain tires suspended by pogo-stick-sized coil-overs. A 12-inch drop transfer case sends power to the 2 ½-ton axles, all enabling insane-looking articulation and water-fording.
Don't expect it to be waterproof, though. The monster C3 "could use some work on the inside boxing everything in," per the ad and the interior needs to be waterproofed. Not that you have much to worry about if the inside does get wet and muddy—it's almost all bare metal, with little ornament. This is the life of the absurdist project car: Never fully finished, not entirely sensible, but incredibly good-natured and fun.
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