"Rod"riguez, an example of Japanese hot rodding in the 60's wild show car style

The bumper lights under the headlights were cut from a caddy and painted and used for the headlights on this car

And the tail lights were cut from the below grill lights

Read all about it here http://auto.howstuffworks.com/rod-riguez-hot-rod.htm

A lot of magazine coverage that it's been the focus of

The Rod and Kustom magazine that put this car on the cover, is online here: http://www.rodetkustom.fr/

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Dream Factory Blow is still making cool vehicles, and now are filmed to get a better look at how they make American trucks from Japanese econ boxes

Photos from http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?4214260 and I learned of the video from http://www.ridelust.com/japanese-ingenuity-with-american-style/

Sorry, gotta jump through the link to see the video
http://translogic.aolautos.com/2010/12/13/translogic-9-1-japan-part-3-dream-factory-blow/ because the damn video won't play when I embed it.

for more photos
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/12/redefining-mini-vans-and-emulating-70s.html

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What is more strange, this vehicle, or that numerous people love and create them?

Via: http://www.v8extremo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=391&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=45

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