67 Karmann Ghia Viper V-10 "Blue Mamba"

Hi everyone, here at Autorama Detroit 2013 and I have a bit of a Kagia, but I don't think you've ever seen one like this. I know I've never seen one like this. I didn't even know it was possible, but these. The guys have shoehorned a V10 Viper engine into this thing, so let me check them out anyway. I'll have to tell us a little about this, John, how are you doing brother? I'm good, Scotty, how's it going? It's not so bad, tell me about it. rod uh well this is a 1967 Carmen Gia that us and Dean from rids and the rods and Dean's race cars Dean, how you doing bro?

We actually put a Viper v10 gen 3 engine in it, how do you do it, who? Well, first of all, how. It takes a lot of beers to say I've got a Kia, let's put a Viper engine in it, well it was actually his crazy design, right, and then, you know, he started building it, started doing a bunch of sheet metal work and stuff. So. um and his shop is just a few miles from mine so you know he came and talked to us and you know we came up with some body modifications to make it look a little more unique and more custom um but essentially the chassis. and the rear end and stuff like that are designed by him so your shop does the body work and he does the engineering right so he liked the chassis and stuff like that he bought the chassis and it actually has a rear end Unique billet. final, uh, that's as gimmicky as it is cool, um, it's a Billet fully independent rear suspension um, capable of over 1,000 horsepower, um, it's never been done before on a Billet independent rear round that we've ever seen, wow um really really trick so if you get a chance to really do a trick uh he made all the upper and lower control arms for that let's check it out CNC Billet uh uh wow what's his name Blue Mamba

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Mamba is its name, yes, and it's a custom chassis, although there it is, yes, it's pretty much all built from scratch, but the body was actually a caraga once, yes, it started out as a caraga um, obviously, rails drip shaved, door handles shaved, you know, the firewalls have been moved back, all the full custom flooring on the underside of the hood has been completely, um, do we have fiberglass or is it all steel, actually steel , yes, the whole body is steel, really the nose is stretching about 4 inches in front, the cow is stretching and it is a custom made chassis per ear, yes, okay.

Wow, I love those little mirrors too, you made them, I guess not, that was one of the only bolted pieces we got, it was at hour 12 and we didn't have anything else and we didn't have. It's time to do something else, so that's what we came for, it's all sheet metal. Sheet metal console. The tail piece is actually a fiberglass piece that we built. It has an integrated roll cage. Really, who did the inside work? Actually. Glenn, what the guy just been here is the custom upholstery from Doo, from where, from Huntingburg, Indiana, okay, cool, man, I like it, I like how the doors that you have molded on that, yeah, yeah, yes, and friend, Carmen G are just like you.

I know, it's great, but they've taken it to a whole new level, there will be Carmen Gia fans out there who will faint when they see this. I like how you did the side exhaust, yes, yes, the rear is actually. only 46 inches wide, um, but the car isn't very wide, you know, so ultimately, you know you can't put a very wide rear end on it if you don't have a very wide car, right? We, uh, made custom taillights, obviously, you made those Y and the headlights, our Mini Cooper headlights, oh oh, he's going to put a mirror underneath, yeah.

I was wondering how we could see that that's cool. I appreciate that this SP is now as good as you. I'm going to get it oh, that's great, I'll go down there. I'm not too old yet. Oh wow, that's beautiful, somehow I have some light, a flashlight over there, but Johnny, I love it, that's good, I think we can see it, see it a little bit. Kinda anyway, yeah buddy, how long did it take you to build this? Well, it's also a long story. He actually started it about four years ago, yeah, about four years ago, he settled into another body shot for about a year, so he has.

About 3 years ago, yeah, and then we met with him probably 6 months ago and that's when we decided we had to do this. You know he wanted to get recognition from him for all the work he had already done. and you know we had a good reputation at the U for building the cars and finishing them well, now you get impatient, I mean you know when you start talking about it and planning, that's fine, but about two and a half years later, you're done. the damn thing, yes, yes, you love it, it's fun, we had a great time doing it, but we have to do it now.

I like the paint scheme. What colors are those? Actually, this is spray paint Pro. It's um, the top part is called um. Uh, what was it? um bright charcoal Pearl and the bottom part is called um rapture Blue Pearl oh wow U and it's actually a tri Co um so it actually changes like a purple color outside in the sun and Dean made all the Billet pieces for the council and everything and it has a touch and go, so everything is touched, so the buttons like the rear view ones or the door windows and the poers and the starter motor and everything that it works with, it's actually the pulse electric of your fingers I have you so no need to push just place your finger just place your finger on it yes wow I like how beautiful the board is man good job guys you have shaken the karma Gia as if not I will close the front for you yeah do that oh wow how many horses is that?

Know? Do you have D 650 650? Have? Do you drive it? We just finished, we just finished it. What's happening? Oh yes, can you start? No, no, no, here, we can and, furthermore, we don't want to. make it all hot no, I got you, I got you, that's always a trick question when I ask, I don't know what the answer will be, look at that, what are those ones outside a curve or on Porsche, the headlights, yeah, Mini ? Cooper Mini Cooper down on the chin it's broken here the turn signal and everything related to the running lights I can't even see oh I see them now man I like the little

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one you put there in the entrance there is too one behind the hood. so you can see through the grill, I've never been so excited about a caragan in my entire life, they're cool, they don't turn on the lights, they're cool, but you know, like I said, I tend to think when you put a V10 in. on anything, it makes it cool, you know, it definitely helps up the cool factor anyway, but I mean, as far as the call and stuff like that, you didn't move any of that to make it fit, uh, it's not really what only thing we do. really done it's stretching for the young guy that called basically where the cow stops is with the original hood then it stretches the nose only about three inches but then B at the bottom but you worked all that out yeah you started with a metal sheet.

I cured him, buddy, not quite right 90 yeah, no one's going to check our backstory, he did it all alone in the snow, no shoes and no power, yeah, no power, you did all that by hand, all in the middle of the AI. So it is so. What I'm talking about, being friends, I'll tell you what man you have, uh no, he certainly rocked Carmen Gia like no one else has and let's go over this one more time, what's the name of your company? How can people see your work? Deans rods and race cars okay and you have a website Deans rods Andra cars.com doc okay and yours I'm John wo from the custom shop and ours is custom shop.org okay guys I do it I appreciate it a lot, man, thank you very much.

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