These Are the Most RIDICULOUS Builds at SEMA 2026

People put a lot of time, money, effort into these cars, and you can tell they're really proud of them, but then they turn out like this. And people have asked, what's up with the fur? And I'm like, I don't know. I'm from Miami, so I'm like. Totally normal for you guys. A meme in real life, right? It's nothing you would ever actually do. That's the line to see what I think is this abomination. One of the wildest builds that I've seen at SEMA 2026, and that's saying a lot. I'm here with David with Shift Culture. You know, you've got a basic car like this, a BRZ, that comes with a little four banger in it, and you've got to do something crazy at SEMA if it's going to be seen and people come up to it. So, you know, we were like, let's figure out something. So the first thing we did was we put a 2JZ motor in it. We fit a Supra engine in here. We had a Mark IV sitting in our shop. It was just in pieces, and we, like, took the engine out and did a total custom build. Horsepower, how much are we talking? It's just shy of 1,000. And, you know, people have asked, what's up with the fur? And I'm like, I don't know. I'm from Miami, so I'm like. Totally normal for you guys. It's just do something crazy. You know, you see fur on the edge of the window, and you're like, what the heck is that all about? And then, of course, you've got the new GTA 6 coming out. We were like. What better reason, let's do a crazy collab with them. Shift Culture, these are all of our vehicles that we've done and built in Florida. Prince, unfortunately, he would love this car. Oh yeah, Purple Rain all day long. People play that song with this car all the time. Just to do this project, I mean, you're talking easy $100,000 to do the custom paint, all the custom interior. Obviously, all the work to fabricate it, to get it to fit in this little car was no joke. It took some time, so it could be done. And that's what we do at our shop. We build crazy builds. When you look at the cars at the SEMA show, you notice a lot of Brembo brakes. It's for the same reason many of the world's finest sports cars and race cars trust Brembo. And now, Brembo makes a full line of top-quality brakes for almost every make and model. Every vehicle deserves Brembo. Very thematic. I mean, Halloween was just a few days ago. So this vehicle was built by Horny Mike from Counting Cars on Discovery Channel. This is his personal golf cart. It's all hand-built, hand-painted. He's the actual painter for the TV show. And yeah, this was kind of his creation, and it's pretty wild. Everybody's been taking pictures of it and coming and asking about it, and it's great. Yeah, it's been great. Check it out. So this blob of pumpkins and whatnot is actually the air tank for the air ride on this thing. All completely custom. He hand-built the whole thing and airbrushed it. It's wild. This is a golf cart with air suspension? Yeah. So this one, believe it or not, I know you see the big motor on the back of it, but hidden underneath it is a Suzuki Hayabusa motor. Believe it or not, this will do over 100 miles an hour. I do not believe that. Are you willing to try that, Ryan? Absolutely not. No, absolutely not. It's on airbags. It's kind of crazy. It looks like it's a... A nightmare to drive, there's no way. But it's really, really cool. I'm going to get in so much trouble with the Homeowners Association when I'm driving this. 87 miles an hour. I don't even... I know what we're looking at. Andrew, I hope you can make sense of this because I can. I absolutely can. So the deal with this thing is it is a combination of multiple projects from the wild mind of Rob Dom himself. If you don't know who Rob Dom is, he's got a YouTube channel that he breaks it all down. He's a rotary guy. So this is a rotary, but it's a 12 rotor. It is one of one, all billet, obviously three turbos. Uh, question mark horsepower, they put it on a dyno and ran out of dyno before they stopped. Are you kidding? Not kidding. It did drive in here. It drove. That was my next question. Does this actually drive? 100% it drives. You'd have to drive it with a periscope. Let's be honest. I mean, look at this. So the videos of this thing driving are real. This is not AI. A meme in real life, right? It's nothing you could ever actually do, but why not? I don't know if you noticed the front end almost touching the ground. Yes. The back end is almost not touching the ground. With some of this. You can lift the back end up really easy. Quick specs, the car before the engine was on it... Weighs less than the engine. 1900 pounds. The engine, 1400 pounds. There we go. The dude who invented the MX-5 is rolling in his grave right now. Just totally ruined everything. You a Batman fan, I assume? Yeah, yeah, all Batman. My name is Michael Orsino and this is my 2017 FK8 Civic Type R. Well, from the start here, we got a full carbon fiber front end from Malaysia. Carbon Sixth Element was the guy who made it. All airbrushing on the bottom and on the top on the other side if he goes around the other side. All airbrushing. The whole car is painted by Kroll's Customs. It's a black to purple fade. Suicide doors. With the Robin on one side, Batman on the other side, and all the pillars painted, all airbrushed. Bucket seats in the front and rear. How much time do you think was spent on the airbrush alone for this? 150 hours. Holy ----. If you look inside there, the Batman is, the sign is underneath. How difficult was it to do the suicide door conversion on this? Brutal. We had to do it like four times because it's made for regular fenders, which sit to here. But because they go out here, he had to push the bracket out, make provisions for the bracket to swing out past the door. Just a full fab job from scratch. Yeah, the titanium inserts here with the titanium center cap that spins, those were handmade. Those were made for me this year just for the show. I know it's kind of a rude question, but how much money do you have in this vehicle? Maybe $130, $140, not what the car cost. I don't know what's more insane, this car or the line to see it. We are at SEMA 2026. I've never seen anything like this. I was like, oh, someone's signing autographs. No, that's the line to see what I think is a blasphemous. But you took a Pininfarina design, a famous. The legendary Ferrari Testarossa, and you made this abomination. Josh, Gas Monkey Garage, explain yourself. Look, we've got to tell everybody, this car was shot up with bullet holes and wrecked, and it was a stunt car for a movie. It is a real Ferrari, but the car was already beat to hell. And it probably still looked better than this. Keep going. Oh, get out of here. Man, no, it's amazing, dude. We're really happy with how it turned out. I think this is the only way you could make it, the spinoff, happened right. You know what I mean? Obviously, it's ours, so I think that way, but I think we killed it. You know, we kept it very compact for six wheels, and then everybody said, well, you could have kept the Ferrari motor. 280 horse or 1,200 horse? I mean, you know, it's a little bit of a difference. Yeah, for sure. I mean, look, if you're going to put two extra wheels on it, just go all the way. It's a 1,200 horsepower, supercharged from Magnuson K-Tech. It's a 431LT4, so GM powered. We did our full Holley, you know, Terminator system on it and like I said into an Audi transmission So a lot of weird designing on that one for sure, you know Trying to make a mate and get everything in there tight tight and compact where it's not a freaking 18 wheeler long So tell me how you managed to get six wheels onto a Testarossa so the biggest thing is that we took and did a Audi A5 transmission and So it's running the front wheels. These are all four powered Most of the time, yeah, the center axle is like floating or something. All four rear wheels are powered, so it's got an Audi A5. The front ones are direct drive. The rear is going into just a diff with a limited slip locker. So when we do our burnouts, it's full lock burnouts, or when we're turning around a parking lot, it unlocks itself, and it doesn't do that chirp or chatter like most six wheels do. So a lot of trial and tribulation on this. Boy, I tell you, it was an asshole. How long did it take? We probably got about 60 to 65 days in this one. That's it. I hate it, but I love it at the same time. It's like this is what SEMA is all about. That's why you've got to line all the way to the back of the hall to see it. I know you're busy. Thank you again. I appreciate it, guys. Thank you for watching. Stay tuned. We're bringing you more from SEMA 2026. Take care.