classic car

The last time we saw the Ultimate Tribute Cavalier at Iola 2009, the owner wanted $4000 for it in the car corral. It seems that car was subsequently sold to Ted Vernon Specialty Automobiles in Miami, and now it is being offered for the much-inflated price of $16,500, shown as a 1999 custom Batmobile. In addition to this madness, it's listed on none other than Jameslist, which routinely sells supercars and megayachts, not Chevy Cavaliers. Something tells us it's on the wrong -list site, as creations like this and the Yugo Whalemobile are more commonly found on Craigslist.

Since the last time we saw it, the car has gained some rattle-can wheel paint, but nothing that increases its value to the point of being worth $16.5k. We finally found out some more information about the motor, none of which excites us, as the car keeps its standard Chevrolet 2.2 motor with an add-on blower for style. The claim of it being a "Batmobile" is completely lame; it has nothing in common stylistically or mechanically with any vehicle on the TV show or movies. While it does have some stylistic resemblance to basically every Chevrolet model ever built, it still seems to blend them in the least visually pleasing and shoddiest way the former owner could possibly think of, creating a vehicle that is more likely to spontaneously combust when it sees itself in a mirror than to ever sell at that price, or any price for that matter.