At a quick glance of the thumbnail I thought it was a giant cylinder head or one bank of a massive horizontally-opposed engine sitting on top of a tank. Somehow I find that fantasy slightly more exciting.

@LandofMinos. So stupid, he makes the Seppos look like a computer.: Not so fast, Land Star! Your so-called random list got suspiciously un-random towards the end there...now I think I'm going to go eat a Hoodsie and watch some porn.

@KTown: How about a nice fake drop-shadow to go along with that cut?

@CID_Vicious: Well played, sir. I'm sure you're right about the actual performance of the pedigreed 6.3 and 6.9, as I too have witnessed. But that that's hardly the point. $15k tops for this abomination. I suppose I should go try to find out what this contraption did pull...

@Lahjik: No doubt. Engine hanging way-over the front wheels and a significant lack of power (naturally-aspirated) made the 900 a strikingly good 2wd snow car.

I currently have a Mercedes of this chassis (w114) and vintage. Having thoroughly researched the possibility of swapping-out the inline six for a Mercedes 4.5 or 6.3 of similar vintage, I've determined that you have to butcher the front end structure, in particular the subframe-to-firewall crossmembers, to shoehorn…

Funny, I remember the Porsche 928 as being a more attractive, less dorky car.

@Jude Butler: I think TouchMyMonkey put it pretty well...There were plenty of reliable cars to choose from and most of them sucked considerably less when driven. Did I mention it handled like an early 70's El Dorado?

I was teetering on this one but went with CP.

@pres: I'm not sure that if a car crosses so deeply into the world of absurdity it still qualifies for this contest.

The Plymouth Acclaim. My family had one as a rental car once when we didn't have access to either our Mazda 626 or our Jeep (XJ) Cherokee.

@Preacher iTofu a.k.a. Scammer Money: I feel HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!

I think it was actually the ghost of Darwin who acted out here.

@Real Tomsk of Genius: Thank you for that validation. It took me years of childhood automotive appreciation to pick up on the Pinto/Daytona factor and it pained me for a few moments there to have it all taken away.

My stepmother had this exact year/car/color.

@MBimmaphile: I'm pretty sure that if you dropped a V8 into and welded the diff on any car it would do burnouts all day long. It would have absolutely no say in the matter, particularly when negotiating corners.

@tonyola: Wow, my grandfather had one of this vintage...(flat) forest green with a 2"x4" "roll bar" behind the cab as we kids called it. Haven't seen one of these in many, many moons—in photos, interwebs or in person.

Okay, paint me stupid(er) for just a minute, and explain to me something I've never really understood...What was the point of lifting the front end of a gasser? I get the back end part (bigger tires), but why not drop the front end for a wedge effect and likely more stability at speed? I've always appreciated the…

@carguy: Objection!

Agree 100%, Ray.