Questionable Sports Car Customizations Done By Celebrities
Jane Lu
· 4 min read
Celebrities can have some pretty peculiar habits, and people love to glimpse into their lives through social media. The oddities definitely extend to the automotive world.
Not everyone is a Jay Leno or Vanilla Ice, coveting and maintaining classic rides, though. Some celebrities do downright atrocious
car modifications
or paint jobs on perfectly good (and often costly) vehicles.
Chris Brown's Lamborghini Gallardo
Thankfully, car wraps aren't as permanent as a custom paint job. That doesn't mean they are any better looking in this case, though.
Singer-songwriter Chris Brown took a perfectly gorgeous Lamborghini Gallardo and made it look like a child's toy car. It features custom blue rims to go with its color-blocked blue, yellow, white, and red wrap.
It's fashioned after a Hot Wheels car, to be exact, according to
Yahoo
. But this isn't a cute kids' toy. It's a luxury supercar that most people can only dream of owning (before this bad wrap, of course).Chris Brown dropped serious cash for the car and custom job by West Coast Customs, and many fans were disappointed at what they did to the Lambo. This custom celebrity car isn't his first, and sadly, won't be his last.
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Dennis Rodman's Hummer H1
While Dennis Rodman may have faded from the spotlight in recent years, in his heyday in the NBA, he was known for his outlandish style and antics. His 1996 Hummer H1 was no exception.
The H1 was the utility vehicle that propelled Hummer from being a military transport brand to a popular consumer vehicle choice. The H1 was pretty basic, and Rodman spiced it up with a confusing and tasteless custom paint job.
It's challenging to capture exactly what the images portray. But at best, the H1 has naked women that seem to burst through sections of concrete. If that wasn't appealing enough, the placement of these nude ladies is haphazard, and not all of them depict a complete person.
To top off the weirdness, the rear window has a painted depiction of Rodman himself leering outward to creep out cars behind him. This customization is just one big mess.
Will.i.am's Volkswagen Beetle
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While paint jobs and wraps can be downright hideous, will.i.am upped the ante with his seriously custom 1958 Volkswagen Beetle. In fact, looking at it, there is no shred of the bubbly, utilitarian Beetle left.
The best description of the vehicle is that it looks like an obnoxious kit car. Building your own kit car is an affordable way to take a basic car like a 1980s Mustang and make it look like a Shelby Cobra. In will.i.am's case, though, he didn't just drop 10 or 15 thousand bucks.
Will.i.am paid almost a million dollars for this ride that took four years to produce. This is another costly disaster thanks to West Coast Customs.
The car is supposed to harken to a sleek miniature version of a Rolls Royce, but associating it with a Rolls is too insulting to the esteemed and classic luxury brand. Its weird hood design and rounded fenders culminate in a weird V-shaped rear window.
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