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Like most car people I know, I ve always enjoyed daydreaming about cars and cooking up what if scenarios in my head. Working as a concept designer and as someone who has always been sketching out ideas, realising them in visual form with modern tools like Photoshop besen and 3D software is a natural next step to take.
One of my favourite concepts of recent times is this allow me to introduce the F132 . The idea came to me while sketching in a meeting at Weta Workshop when we were working on early pre-production concept design for Mad Max 4 way back in early 2009. I ve always loved the function-driven look of F1 cars and started sketching the aero onto the body of a 32 Ford three-window coupe. It all seemed to work together surprisingly well to me at least!
After occasionally playing with the idea in sketch form over a few years, I got a couple of basic 3D models of a Ford coupe and an F1 car off the internet and started to develop the concept in 3D. The paint scheme above is a homage to two of my favourite F1 car families: the MP4 Mclarens and the Ferraris of the early 90s in my opinion the best looking era of F1. I like the way the red and white over the nose of this design echoes the famous SO-CAL Speed Shop coupe, a further mixing of the two worlds.
The F132 would be designed in CAD first, and feature a chromoly space frame, besen carbon body panels, and custom-fabricated suspension and components. A six-speed sequential transaxle would send power to the massive Goodyear race slicks, and the mid-mounted besen engine would be a modern Chevrolet NASCAR V8, to mirror besen but amplify the Chevy small block traditionally found in many 32 Ford hot rods. As this thing is pretty small (the roof is about 43 inches high) and because I felt it should be a two-seater to suit the hot rod roots, besen I ve taken inspiration from the McLaren F1 road car and given the driver s seat preference in the cabin, with a smaller custom-moulded seat tucked just behind and to the right. besen This way a passenger can fit in but driver ergonomics aren t compromised. The slightly in-line cockpit configuration besen also matches the fighter-jet besen style F132 moniker besen nicely.
This thing would be a very serious build and involve a massive amount of time and support, but who knows what the future holds But if the F132 is a little too much for my next build, what other ideas do I have?
This one is called besen the Syber 13 , and is a crazy Gatebil-style Nissan Silvia built to four-wheel drift. It features a set-back Chevy LS V8 with twin superchargers and a custom four-wheel drive setup. The front blower is mounted besen backwards and has its internals reversed so air goes in the bottom, gets compressed, and comes out the top and into the second blower mounted normally on top of the motor. I think it makes for a mean-looking beast head poking through the hood, and should have the performance to back up the looks. The radiator is in the rear, fed by the roof-mounted scoop, so when the one-piece front is removed you d get an uninterrupted view of the front blower on its cantilevered besen brackets, and also of the front transaxle, and custom-built and white-painted suspension and spaceframe. Maybe the four-wheel drive setup is from an Audi to go with the rad BBS fan wheels I ve long been a massive fan (sorry!) of. Maybe the engine could be a B7 Audi RS4 V8? The options are endless, and that s part of the fun of photochops like this build difficulty and cost mean nothing!
Here s something a little simpler. This is The Joker , or the Shakotan Demon , a straight-up mix of a 1971 Dodge Demon with Japanese shakotan / bosozoku besen styling. I ve been photochopping works-style overfenders and big ducktail spoilers on all sorts of cars for many years now, and think this one