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Continuing with our celebration of Halloween, we offer you the 10 most frightening Vehicle upgrades that most of us will ever see… Let’s get started with our fright-fest.

10. Grater Wheels

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It slices, it dices, and it can also be fitted with some tread to be used as a wheel!

 

9.  The Volvo Spoiler

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Okay, now for the last time, Volvo’s are family cars, not shoebox race cars!

 

8. Over Chromed

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A little bit of chrome can be good, but a lot of it will hopefully blind us before we have to look at it much longer!

 

7. The Pink Mobile

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Pink can be a fine color on maybe a shirt or a pair of shoes, but a car, no!

 

6. That Goes for Accessories Too

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Bright neon colors don’t even look good in small amounts on a vehicle…

 

5. Okay, But You Do Need Some Paint

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About the only thing worse than a bright neon paint job, is no paint at all (with a little rust for accent…)

 

4. Self-Painted Decals by a Non-Artist

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We’re not even going to comment on the fact that this is a Chrysler Le Baron with a spoiler. The hand painted decals on this beauty really take the cake!

 

3. The “Extreme” Front End

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Leave those extreme body kits for vehicles that could be considered extreme, and a Del Sol is just not one of them…

 

2. 4-Door Luxury Vehicles with Body Kits

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A Bentley is a wonderfully engineered luxury car, but an unplanned body kit just throws all that precision engineering right down the drain!

 

1. Keep Your Vehicle Upgrades Out of Wood Shop

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A nice wooden table looks great in the den, but a wooden table on your trunk posing as a spoiler, looks… well, priceless!!!

 

There have been a lot of Halloween posts as of recently on the 10 scariest vehicles, and while yeah, the Ford Pinto would make most of us fear for our lives to drive to the grocery store and back, the basic design of the vehicle really doesn’t do too much for us as far as being really that scary. Now do you really want to see something scary?

Let us show you…

Porsche 550 Spyder-

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The infamous vehicle that James Dean’s soul was laid to rest from after a head on collision cost him his life on September 30, 1955. Dean was unfortunately not the only unlucky soul to have passed to the other side by that infamous Porsche according to rumors. There have been many claims that his car has taken several lives as it passed from collector to collector. Now we have no idea if this is true, but we would certainly think twice before getting in the drivers seat of a 550 Spyder before knowing exactly where it came from and whether it was in a good, or a bad mood!

 

1958 Plymouth Fury-

 

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“Christine”, as she became known, was a sleek red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury from the 1983 movie adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic. She still gives us nightmares when thinking about finding one in a dark alley one night. Suddenly the lights turn on, you look around, but there is no way to run, other than back from where you came from. The minute you turn to run, the last sight and sound you experience is your shadow growing shorter in the midst of her headlights and the grumble of her 383 cubic inch V-8 engine as she closes in on you…

 

1973 XB GT Ford Falcon Coupe “Interceptor”-

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The short, stocky, and muscular build of the XB GT Falcon was the perfect starting point from which to slap on a quad-pipe side exit exhaust, and a gleaming supercharger, which was literally exploding from its hood. The car looked sinister even in the bright sun of the wasted land we first saw it on the movie classic, Mad Max. Imagining finding one of these behind you on a deserted road, hugging your bumper like a sex crazed mechaphilliast (one who likes to have sex with machines), still gives us goose pimples to this day!

 

1975 Mercury Marquis Brougham-

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From the popular John Hughes film, Uncle Buck, we bring you a fearful sight for anyone who is not quite fond of their In-Laws. Especially ones with old, large, smoky, smelly, rusted, 1970’s gas hogs that sit in the front of your house for an entire month, earning you three letters from the HOA, a tow citation from the city, and a big black oil puddle near your sidewalk. This vehicle just might be one of the scariest of them all!

We haven’t seen the likes of a Hurst built vehicle since the days of the infamous Hurst/Oldsmobile 442. Well, clear out your garages all you Hurst and Hemi lovers, there is a new bully coming to town… the 2009 Hurst/Hemi (Limited Edition) Dodge Challenger.

Yeah, Ford may have its Roush, Foose, and Shelby Mustang GT-500, but only one make is going to be backed by Hurst pride this coming year. Hurst is celebrating 50 glorious years of breaking through the winning line, and we can think of no better way to celebrate than bring back an iconic legend… the Dodge Challenger, and do it up Hurst style.

What exactly does “Hurst style” entail? Well, we will be seeing it first hand come next month at the Las Vegas SEMA show, but we do know that it will have a Vortech supercharger breathing through an open Magnaflow exhaust. This combination has been promised to bring the 2009 Hurst Dodge Challenger no less than about 560 horsepower.

To keep most of that low end grunt to the pavement, Hurst also is going to slip on a few pairs of Bilstein shocks and Eiboch springs. For an interior upgrade, enthusiasts will be treated to Katzkin leather interiors and a Kicker audio system (of which we would rather do without). With an engine set-up like that, who needs any other music beyond the beautiful rumble of that 6.1 liter supercharged Hemi.

The Dodge Challenger is only the first of many Hurst special orders that are in the works. They are also planning to make limited edition versions of the Viper, Charger, 300C, Ram, and Grand Cherokee. The price range will list from the bottom-end Stage 1 kit, on up to “how much do you really want to spend” ultra package, which will include the “looks” upgrades, suspension upgrades, and of course the Vortech supercharger.

Okay, but we have forgotten to include one very important part of this package… Why of course, the Hurst speed equipment. What Hurst plans on throwing into the mix on these limited edition super muscle cars will be their five-spoke Hurst alloy wheels and a “Pistol-Grip” Hurst shifter (of course). Yeah baby!

The Hurst/Hemi Challenger will be slated for production in early 2009! Don’t miss the sneak peak as this years 2009 SEMA Show Las Vegas.