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TIMID drivers might want to steer clear of ‘Tankenstein’, a hotrod built around a genuine, bullet-riddled World War II tank. Car-crazy customiser Shawn Cormier, from Ontario, Canada, spent five years building the vehicle - whose name is a pun on Frankenstein's monster. The hotrod is constructed around the base of a World War II brand gun cure from 1944, with a Chevy drive train, a small block Chevy turbo 350 trim mission, a standard four gear in the back and the top part of the cab is a 1947 Mercury truck. To Keep up with Tankenstein, follow: https://www.youtube.com/user/ShawnCFarm

A high speed supertank races across a frozen lake in a magnificent display of strength and manoeuvrability. The 8000lb Ripsaw was developed by Howe and Howe Technologies, a US company which specialises in pushing the limits of off-road technology. Owned by twin brothers Mike and Geoff Howe, 40, the company creates powerful vehicles for the military, private sector, emergency services and Hollywood studios. The Ripsaw, which has a huge 650bhp, is a dual tracked vehicle which was originally developed as an anti-IED platform for the military but is now hired out for recreational purposes.

86 SPEAKERS, 11 amplifiers, and more than a mile of LED light wiring have been crammed into an H2 Hummer to create a deafening party-mobile. Rafael Capone has modified cars all his life, but his ‘Soul Asylum H2’ Hummer, built to promote his recording studio of the same name, has taken things to a new level. The speaker-packed behemoth has been dominating car show competitions around Rafael’s native Atlanta, wowing crowds with its all-custom interior and LED light set-up. Rafael told Barcroft Media: “No piece of this car was left factory. The reaction when we pull up is always a, ‘Wow, I love your car’.

A TEAM of film fanatics have built their very own car equipped with machine guns and an RPG. Inspired by the 2008 movie Death Race, which starred British actor Jason Statham, the car started life as a Chrysler 300. Angelo Zannin, 47, and his team Z Montagen, a group of shop fitters from Braunschweig, Germany, managed to build the vehicle in just a few months. The car conversion cost the dedicated team €20K (£15,754) to build as it was in terrible condition when it arrived at their garage. Similar to its movie counterpart, the car boasts an arsenal of weapons and gadgets and can even emit smoke from the back and has a push button ignition. Videographer / director: Christoph Hagen Producer: Bunmi Adigun, Nick Johnson Editor: Marcus Cooper

AN ITALIAN hairstylist has spent more than €80,000 covering her car in human hair. Paying tribute to her profession, Maria Lucia Mugno holds the official Guinness World Record for owning the world’s hairiest car. Taking her more than 150 hours to complete, Maria’s Fiat 500 is now concealed in 100kg of women’s natural hair that she acquired from India.

A DEDICATED father with no mechanical training has manufactured the world’s first fan-built Optimus Prime truck. Back in the summer of 2016, 36-year-old Joe Fiduccia worked day and night recreating the giant full-size replica that weighs around 21,000lbs. Optimus Prime is one of the most renowned characters to hit our screens from the hugely successful Transformers franchise that has taken more than 4 billion dollars at the box office worldwide. And being the determined father that he is, Joe from Monroe County, Pennsylvania, managed to produce this impeccable replica in order to inspire his 10-year-old son that anything is possible.

A COMPUTER genius has managed to build a full size remote-controlled Corvette that wouldn’t look out of place in the latest Fast and Furious film. Two years ago, 34-year-old Bjorn Harms decided to pursue his childhood dream by creating a full-scale vehicle that can be manoeuvred with just a small remote. Bjorn grew up watching the Back To The Future movies and was mesmerised by Doc racing around the DeLorean without anyone sitting in the driver’s seat. Wanting to emulate this fascinating scene, Bjorn, a computer technician from Urmond, Netherlands, decided to apply his knowledge and expertise to a 2006 Corvette C6 – and he hasn’t looked back since. Bjorn has also built full-scale remote controlled Knightrider and Back To The Future replicas. You can find his YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/blade00021/videos

A MECHANIC has managed to transform a 1970’s VW camper into the one of the world’s wackiest race cars by putting it on its side. Jeff Bloch, 44 aka Speedycop has made a name for himself for his outlandish race car builds which, include an upside down Chevrolet Camaro and a plane that was converted into a street legal vehicle. The veteran cop of 21 years took just five weeks to create the car which he has dubbed the, Trippy Tippy Hippy Van.

CAR FANATIC Corey Jones has customised a brand new Chevrolet Camaro with a giant set of 32-inch wheels. Featuring ultra-fine leather seats, three speakers and two 27-inch TV’s in each door, Corey’s latest design also boasts a convertible top that can be manoeuvred with an Xbox One controller. 36-year-old Corey resides in Illinois and has managed Crusader Customs for the past 10 years, building all sorts of outlandish custom rides. But his latest masterpiece is by far the most extravagant yet, turning heads wherever it goes.

An elite drift driver races across a frozen lake on February, 2013 in Saint-Ferdinand, Canada. A MAN takes a nap on a sofa as he is pulled along by a race car on a frozen lake. The highly modified Lexus IS300 skidded across the icy surface in Saint-Ferdinand, Canada. Videographer Keven St-Pierre, 27, joined the ‘Wide Open Drift Team’ for one final session at the end of the 2013 season as the team decided to take it for one last spin. The French-Canadian group emptied the contents from their garage across the frozen lake and drilled some winter screws into the tyres.

THIS is one car that can dodge traffic - as it is a street-legal DODGEM. The purple vehicle, which looks more at home at a funfair than on the roads, is a fully converted bumper car that runs on petrol. And its owner, 69-year-old Tom Evans, is more than capable handling the unusual motor as he used to run a fairground. The tiny car has working lights, indicators, a petrol gauge and even a tax disc to prove its legality to incredulous onlookers. His wife and two sons bought the dodgem car for the young-at-heart driver two years ago.

A STREET legal race car is speeding into the record books - going from zero to sixty in just 1.5 SECONDS. The Nissan R 35 GTR, dubbed the Alpha Omega, is a 2000 horse power super car with an unsurpassable racing history. The car holds the record for the quarter mile at 7.70 seconds with a speed of 190mph, and the standing half mile at 124.9 mph. The team at AMP Performance built the speed machine in 2012 in their shop in Chicago, Illinois.

A POWERFUL light tank designed and built for the movie Mad Max: Fury Road puts on a ferocious display during its rigorous testing process. The unusual dual tracked vehicle, named The Peacemaker, has an incredible 1000 horsepower and was created by Howe and Howe Technologies, a specialist company owned by twin brothers Mike and Geoff Howe. The pair, both 40-years-old, from Maine USA, create vehicles for the military, private sector, emergency services and Hollywood studios. Mike revealed that director George Miller, who helmed the previous three Mad Max movies (1979-85), phoned them about developing something unique for the new film, starring British actor Tom Hardy.

The Hungarian Istvan Pusk·s from the village of Tiszars has moved his neighbours with another great wooden masterpiece - a fully working wooden tractor. Mr Pusk·s has always been a big fan of machines made out of wood. The 53-year-old, a tractor driver at a nearby agricultural firm, has been using his extreme wood-whittling skills to create vehicles for the last decade. After honing his skills with three wooden pushbikes, a wooden motorbike and even a wooden car, the craftsman tried his hand at a wooden three wheeled chopper. His latest creation is a life-size wooden tractor, that features a 150 cc engine, real tractor tyres and lots of hand-crafted pine wood.

Ferrari enthusiasts cruise through the streets of Doha, before putting the cars through their paces on the Losail International Circuit. The desert nation of Qatar is a hotspot for lovers of the Italian supercars, with many of the petrol-heads taking part in high-octane track days.

A nautical fanatic has turned a once sunken boat into a road legal, drivable car. Mark Ray designed and built his dream motor after his wife Robyn bet him that he could not do it. Robyn, 49, had been diagnosed with breast cancer and felt that Mark needed a project to take his mind from being her full time carer. He spent a total of £6,000 on merging a GMC Jimmy with a sunken and recovered Sea Ray Bow Rider. After stripping the boat of its motor, out drive and interior – including the floor – he built it into the car that had been taken apart and left with only its chassis, seats and motor.

A SUPERFAN spent more than £65,000 turning a 100-year-old car into an exact replica of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Tony Garofalo became obsessed with the kid’s film when he was just four-years-old and soon began collecting memorabilia. But in 2010 he decided to take the step of making an exact replica of the iconic vehicle and spent thousands of hours over five years creating his masterpiece. Tony, who lives in Long Island, New York, said: “My uncle worked for United Artists and managed to get us tickets to the premiere of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

A SHIMMERING supercar covered in sparkling neon illuminates Tokyo's streets during a night-time cruise. This eye-catching video shows American car enthusiast Steve Feldman, 44, driving a highly modified Ferrari 360 Modena through the darkly lit Japanese metropolis. The New York native managed to persuade fellow petrol head, Touma, who owns the distinctive automobile, to take the car for a high speed spin after picking up the cheque for a meal with friends. The supercar has numerous enhancements including LED lights, a hologram reflective wrap, an extremely loud modified exhaust and a horn which plays distinctive melodies.

A REAL-LIFE superhero has turned down six-figure offers for his home-made Batmobile - so he can continue helping sick children. Batman fanatic Zac Mihajlovic, from Camden, Australia, hand-built his very own street legal version of the car from the 1989 film starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. The 29-year-old turned his comic book fantasies into a high-octane reality by constructing a replica of the iconic vehicle. And the car has whipped up a reaction wherever it has been seen. Businessmen from across the world, including a Sheik in Dubai, have offered Zac big bucks for the Batmobile - and he has also seen his share of bizarre requests. And rather than cash-in on his dream machine, Zac decided to use his powers for good by teaming up with the Make-A-Wish foundation, who make dream’s come true for terminally-ill children.

Rick Sullivan with his upside down truck on July 27, 2014 in Clinton, Illinois. A man has built an incredible upside down truck that looks like a flipped-over vehicle. Rick Sullivan spent six months and $6,000 building the topsy-turvy truck from the parts of two separate vehicles.The road-legal car is created from a 1991 Ford Ranger pickup truck with a 1995 F-150 pickup truck body placed over the top - upside down.

FEW road vehicles could hope to outrun an aeroplane. But thanks to a 12,000 horsepower engine and a top speed of almost 400mph, this rocket-propelled Chevy can do just that. The explosive machine known as the 'Flash Fire Chevy' is the brainchild of American Neal Darnell - who built it after he retired. Together with his son Chris they took a Pratt and Whitney engine from a US Navy trainer jet called the T-2 Buckeye and built the vehicle around it. With this additional rocket power the Chevy is able to accelerate from 0-60 in 1.5 seconds - exerting up to G-Force 6 on the driver. It can easily hit 350mph and has reached a top recorded speed of 375mph at airshows, where it impresses the crowds by catching up with light aeroplanes flying a few metres above. Neal and son Chris are continuing to tear up the tarmac at shows across North America, including El Paso, Texas, where these images were captured in October 2012.

Candy-colored paint jobs and oversized rims are standard for cars belonging to one of the largest custom car clubs in the world. Nokturnal Car Clubs more than 250 members spend hundreds of thousands of dollars transforming their regular rides into moving, roaring works of art. The organization was formed in Montebello, California, USA in 2001, but has since expanded to 28 chapters across the US, Europe and Asia. Members of the club customize their cars with eye-catching paint jobs, tall rims, custom speaker systems and a variety of electronics.

Motor-mad Ryan Camp transformed an old pick-up truck into the ULTIMATE racing vehicle. Ryan decided to build his own mud truck, which cost up to £66,000, after attending events and watching other drivers compete. His truck, Sick 50 Mega Truck, can jump over hills and race through four-feet deep mud.The 429 stone truck started life as an old 1950 Chevrolet full body truck. It took Ryan, 35, from Georgia, USA, a year to complete his dream mud truck.

This hand built super car combines American muscle and European manoeuvrability to reach speeds of up to 200 miles per hour. The Lucra – which goes from 0 to sixty in just under three seconds - can be yours for just £80,000. The dream car, which has a V8 engine but still weighs just 2,000 pounds, was conceived and designed by Luke Richards from his luxury showroom in California, USA. After being brought up in both Europe and the United States he had a passion for both muscle and lightweight sports cars so decided on the concept. Despite the Lucra’s power and the intricacies of its design the car can be customised and built for prospective customers in just eight weeks. From his headquarters in Los Angeles and Santa Monica Luke weights the Lucra at the back meaning it handles well even at top speeds. But aside from the Lucra’s incredible performance – Luke says the most rewarding part about designing the car is the reaction it gets from others.

A man has spent 15-years transforming a rusty wreck into the vintage car of his dreams. Terrence Cleife, a retired motor engineer, bought the wreck of a 1916 American LaFrance saloon car in 1998. The pre-war vehicle had been dismantled and was lying as a pile of scrap on the floor of a barn. The car’s missing parts were welded by Terry out of bronze and cast iron to match the vehicles original chassis and the engine completely re-assembled. Now 71, Terry has the car of his dreams and has completed the painstaking piece-by-piece restoration.