When a cat becomes a shark

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How many cars have been named after animals? Or perhaps it’s better to ask which animals have nót seen their name attached to a four-wheeler. Reptiles, horses, mammals, birds, fishes, dinosaurs, insects – there’s a car for anything alive.

Sometimes one animal even gets a second life as another. A Beetle can become a Puma, a Pinto a Bobcat and a Charger a Super Bee. And then there are the Jaguars, known to reincarnate into anything from Kougars to Spiders, Panthers, Piranhas, Growlers, Lynxes, Eagles… The one shown here made us first think of a shark. A Mako shark perhaps.

The car in question is a 1962 E-type coupe turned into an amazing show car by Dick ‘Korky’ Korkes who was commissioned to do so by Bobby Freedman. And those chromed sidepipes weren’t fakes – Corky bolted a souped-up fuel-injected Corvette engine under that long bonnet. A wild animal indeed. More pictures (with another girl) of it here. Anyone out here who knows if it survives?

(Text Jeroen Booij, picture courtesy George Barris/Kustomrama)

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