Custom Cars

A MAN with no mechanical experience has fulfilled his childhood goal of building his dream car

AN ITALIAN coachbuilder has designed and built two supercars from scratch without the use of a computer or sketches

A NEW all-terrain vehicle capable of floating on water and putting out fires could save lives in rescue missions

A TEAM of film fanatics have built their very own car equipped with machine guns and an RPG

A SPORTS car made from cannabis hemp could lead the charge in making carbon neutral vehicles

WITH a cruising speed of 55mph, this wooden car is a carpentry project with a difference

A BRITISH inventor has spent $25,000 turning a pick-up truck into an ap-pealing driveable banana

GARDENER Kevin Nicks has taken British eccentricity to a new level - by building the world’s fastest shed

QUIRKY mechanics have created a ‘Topsy Turvy’ vehicle - by fusing two American school buses on top of each other

CAR designer Afzal Kahn has made his motoring dream a reality by building his own super car worth £300,000

LIMOUSINES may be the choice mode of transport for A-listers and the superrich - but here’s one that Jay Z and Beyonce might not want to be seen in

A GANG of Japanese car fanatics show off their custom rides and driving skills

A TRUCKING enthusiast is creating his very own micro-machines by shrinking the traditional American big rig down to the size of a pick-up

ECCENTRIC British inventor Paul Bacon has gone 'full steam ahead' on his latest customised car

THE ice car of Batman villain Mr Freeze is no longer fantasy - Lexus have crafted the world’s first set of working wheels and tyres made from frozen water

A MUCH-DERIDED German car has been given a turbo-charged makeover - upping its top speed by more than 60mph

A ROCKET-POWERED Chevrolet hits speeds of nearly 400mph, a Ghostbusters fanatic drives the streets of New York in an exact replica of the Ecto-1, and a record-breaking daredevil flies 166ft through the air in a huge semi-truck - these are just some of the high-octane vehicles that appear in the Barcroft Cars 2015 round-up

A CAR enthusiast has spent five painstaking years recreating one of the world’s most desirable Ferraris

A BATMAN fanatic has forged a living building original 1966 BATMOBILE replicas

A TURBOCHARGED off-road vehicle performs a death-defying leap THROUGH the second storey of a derelict building

BRITAIN'S most offbeat car designer has opened the doors to his workshop - where he puts a unique spin on his customisations

QUIRKY car designer Mark Ray is flying high on America's roads - driving a converted light aeroplane

CAR enthusiast Jerry Bowers wants to keep kids in school - with a customised hot rod SCHOOL BUS

A SHIMMERING supercar covered in sparkling neon illuminates Tokyo's streets during a night-time cruise

MEET the man who puts the CAR in carpentry - by building stunning roadworthy vehicles made entirely out of WOOD

A SUPERFAN spent more than £65,000 turning a 100-year-old car into an exact replica of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

JOE Tomaro relives his childhood everyday - in a car he built from his favorite amusement park ride

A TENACIOUS mechanic has converted a $400 rust bucket into America's best custom car

A COLOURFUL convoy of trucks modified with flashy LED lights illuminate the Tokyo streets at night

STUDENT Dhiraj Mishra has created India’s first solar energy car with zero carbon emissions

A Florida-based custom car designer is creating vehicles that are out of this world, by giving normal road models an extraterrestrial twist

A MOVIE-loving petrolhead has spent $125,000 creating his own Interceptor - the iconic car from Mad Max

A NAUTICAL fanatic has turned a once sunken boat into a road legal, drivable car

A TRACTOR driver showed his CARpentry skills - crafting one of the heavy duty farm vehicles out of wood

A HIGH speed supertank races across a frozen lake in a magnificent display of strength and manoeuvrability

https://barcroft.azurewebsites.net/#coverAN ARTIST is turning heads behind the wheel of a street legal race car straight out of the Indianapolis 500

A POWERFUL light tank designed and built for the movie Mad Max: Fury Road puts on a ferocious display during its rigorous testing process

A CARPENTER and his son have spent two-months building a working car out of WOOD

THIS is one car that can swerve the traffic - a street-legal DODGEM

A STREET legal race car is speeding into the record books - going from zero to sixty in just 1.5 SECONDS

TWO BROTHERS are building and driving custom cars straight out of the movies - including a Batman Tumbler.

A TEAM of elite racing drivers screech round bends SIDEWAYS at extraordinary speeds

THIS is one breakdown truck you might not want to be towed by - as it has a current top speed of 179mph

MOTOR-mad Ryan Camp transformed an old pick-up truck into the ultimate racing vehicle

A TURBO charged desert car races around the beautiful Qatari desert – flying through the air and even performing a wheelie

FEW road vehicles could hope to outrun an aeroplane

THIS hand-built supercar combines American muscle and European maneuverability to reach speeds of up to 200 miles per hour

RECYCLED items and unconventional materials have been used to create a purple vehicle - which looks like a spaceship from a sci-fi film

RUSSELL White has spent over $100,000 to create a custom car that can easily leap over sand dunes in the desert

TWO quirky engineers have converted a Cadillac into the world's fastest hot tub - that can hit speeds of 50mph while full of water

CANDY-coloured paint jobs and oversised rims are standard for cars belonging to one of the largest custom car clubs in the world

A LOWRIDER car bounces EIGHT-FEET in the air with just a flick of a switch

SUPER-SIZED pickup truck designer Chris Walker makes giant cars up to TEN FEET high

DRIVERS need to be careful to avoid a concussion when getting in and out of these pint-sized cars

CAR-lover Corey Jones has customised his Camaro with a massive set of 32-inch rims

A MAN has built an incredible upside down truck that looks like a flipped-over vehicle

WHILE millions of film fans dream of owning James Bond’s Aston Martin or Bruce Wayne’s Batmobile, Ollie Wilkey has turned his movie car fantasy into a reality.

WITH most vehicles, taking a wrong turn into a nearby lake would require an embarrassed call to your insurer. But for the Panther, the wet stuff poses no problem - as it can make the switch from car to boat in just 15 seconds.