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50 Ratchet Custom Cars

These deserve to die in the junkyard.

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Most displays of ratchetness come and go quicker than you can even decipher what the fuck you just saw. Only then can you hope a video of what happened pops up on YouTube, so you can laugh, raise an eyebrow, then blast it out to all your friends over social media. The examples on the list you are about to see are not fleeting. They are permanent customizations, making these cars both useless and unacceptable. At some point, people in this world have decided it was a good idea to turn cars into makeshift cockroaches, shoes, tanks, peacocks, scissor lifts, and gargoyles. Spend your day laughing at other people's stupidity with these 50 Ratchet Custom Cars.

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Wrap it Up

This makes the chrome-wrapped cars look amazing.

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Plunger?

WTF.

Amish Paradise

Now that's a unique choice of rims!

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El Corvino

A Corvette El Camino...so not necessary.

Trendy

This is what they like to do in Japan. They really take their absurdly tricked-out vans extremely seriously.

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UFO

Close encounters with a stupid-ass idea for a car.

Happy Meal

How many drive thru's has this car survived?

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Toasted

The brave little toaster got some wheels!

A New Breed

Why is this parked at a car show alongside a real classic? And why are those dudes even looking at it?

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Stretch

The redneck stretch Excursion.

Blasted

Allll the wayyyyy turrrrrnnttt uppppp.

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Snowmobile

We'd like to know who purchased this.

Smart Tank

Going to war in this would not be too smart.

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Wack

This is the body kit from hell.

Fright Night

We're gonna have nightmares.

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Buggy

We could probably have some fun running over shit in this thing.

Roach Coach

Buggin' out, buggin' out, we buggin' out.

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A Shoe In

An ugly shoe makes for an ugly car.

Car Wars

Is that R2D2's head??

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Purp

A purple Citreon hot rod. Not okay.

Pipe Dream

Why, though?

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I'm a Peacock, Captain!

Rather flamboyant. It could possibly be considered an art car, we guess.

#MinivanLife

Whip it, real hard.

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Hybrid

This Lincoln leads a very interesting life.

Klondike

What would you dooo for a Klondike bar? Paint the shit on the side of your hoopty, of course!

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Lift Kit

We're hoping this is the work of some bored kid on Photoshop.

Pretty in Pink

Apparently this is the wave in Japan ... SMH.

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Just For Fun

And you thought Smart cars were tiny.

Jacked Up

Words cannot describe the ratchetness.

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Villified

Not sure what this is. A life-sized cartoon car of some sort??

Get Lifted

How the hell are you supposed to get up there?

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Help

We're glad this only appears to be a temporary float for a parade.

Splitsville

Holla, we want pre-nup!

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G Shit

Wait, somebody is actually going to go off-roading in a G-Wagen?

Gargoyles

The car of Notre Dame.

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Plowin' Down

Very interesting career move for this little Fiat. We can't imagine it's very good at that job.

What a Boob

The car might be a mini, but there's nothin' mini about that paint job.

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Unfriended

Why would you paint your '96 Impala to be a billboard for the one company that does not need your free advertising? That's just defacing a classic.

Clownin'

We're not even sure how this thing was built.

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Sick and also Tired

Not sure how sufficiently this would take you back to the future, but at least you know potholes aren't a problem.

Protect Ya Neck

A cardboard tank?? Very practical.

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Cardboard Cutout

This is a cheaper mod job than getting your parts at Wal-Mart.

Art Project

As an art project, this idea was pretty awesome. As a regular custom, however, this would have been a major fail.

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Oh, You Fancy, Huh?

Is this our grandmother's rod iron fence made into the shape of a VW beatle?

Da-na-na-na, na-na-na-na

Batman?

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Superbass

Wow this made his speakers into quite the abstract art form. We can't imagine what that speaker sculpture sounds like...

Bape Benz

Bape and camo, that's cool and all but not over the beautiful face of the most iconic Mercedes-Benz of all time.

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Suped Up

It's too bad they had to do a perfectly good supra like this

Fine Print

Guess someone had just returned from the jungle when they decided to attack this car with lions and tigers and bears.

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