These tinkerers make the most of castoff materials to build an array of wild cars.
Tim Lorentz with the LaBoata in Spokane, Wash.Credit.Allie Lorentz
May 6, 2021
Tim Lorentz, a special-education teacher in Spokane, Wash., loves both cars and boats. He has raced cars and has owned a variety of muscle and exotic vehicles.
“Car guys always want to own or drive a unique car that no one else owns,” Mr. Lorentz said. “I created an eight-passenger convertible. Why not a boat mounted over a convertible? I have never seen another one like it.”
And so the LaBoata was born. Mr. Lorentz, now 65, built it in 2009 using a white 1993 LeBaron a used 17-foot boat he got for $100, Mercedes Lilienthal reports for The New York Times.
When One Manâs Trash Is Another Manâs Transmission
Building cars from old fridges and junkyard parts, these tinkerers make the most of castoff materials to build an array of wild and impressive cars.
Ernie Adams, center, built a shrunken but street-legal replica of a 1949 Mercury that is always a crowd-pleaser at car shows.Credit.Kevin Adams
By Mercedes Lilienthal
May 6, 2021
A man in Arizona builds his shrunken cars out of refrigerators, but youâd never know it by looking at them. In Washington State, a teacher built his car from a boat, and thereâs no mistaking it. And in Ghana, a student built a car that looks like a ramshackle DeLorean â and if you guessed that he made it with junkyard scraps, youâd be right.