When I ran into this shot posted at the Cohort by A.Bear, a smile came over me and I thought: “Wow; what a colorful Camry! Someone is really having fun with their car. Good for them; beats seeing another silver or beige one.”
But I see my sentiments aren’t exactly shared with the photographer of this car.
Mr. Bear (living up to his name?) had this to say about it:
Seen in Los Angeles. A perfectly good late model Toyota Camry totally ruined by all of this crap. Neon green and orange wheels check! Sweet huge flaming blue skull decals on the sides check! Fake plastic chrome side air intakes, check! fake plastic chrome all around, blue wing, check! fake hood scoop for added horse power and dorkyness, check! blue windshield wipers, check! more blue accents and pinstripes, check! Blue I have no idea what the hell those things on top of the windshield are, Check!
I bet JC Whitney made a hell of a lot of money from this customer. I still feel bad for the poor Camry. 🙁
Trying to stand out from the crowd with one’s car is as old as the Model T, which sparked a booming business in after-market customization parts. And in LA, Camrys are the modern-day Model T. Colors may change, but not human nature.
Sometimes bad things happen to good Camrys…
Sometimes “Bears” need to get a life.
If I saw this done to a 64 E-type coupe, I’d be concerned….. it’s only a Camry, deal with it.
My sentiment exactly. If this were done to a 39 Studebaker President, I would be horribly depressed. But to a Camry? Meh. Same reaction I have to yet another donked out 64 Bel Air.
“I have no idea what those things on top of the windshield are…”
They appear to be vortex generators, more commonly used on aircraft wings to decrease the stall speed.
It’s the new Tequila Edition!
I’m guessing you don’t have Specsavers in America.Horrible beyond belief though some British Chavs would love it,just the thing for Brandon,Chelsea,little Chardonay and McKenzie not forgetting Ripper the Bull Terrier.Ideal to pop out to the dole for signing on,(when Brandon’s finished cleaning windows)the tattoo parlour,probation office and the drug dealer.
I’ll give you Chardonnay (no, not literally, calm down…) but didn’t know Brandon, Chelsea and Mackenzie are considered stereotypically low-class names in Britain. Here, they’re just…names.
Three portholes on the front fenders would make that a Buick Special!
“Three portholes on the front fenders would make that a Buick Special!”
Yes. This is just further confirmation for me that Toyota is the new Buick.
I used to avoid driving behind just one brand of car due to slow driving/slow thinking by driver. Toyota has made that a duo of brands in the last several years.
In this case the portholes don’t suit the look. They’re too restrained. Paint them fluorescent yellow or something. 😛
I once pulled up behind a Toyota Corolla at a stoplight that had a custom license plate that read, UNSER. I expected at the very least, a somewhat spirited take off or some attentiveness to the turning light but I observed neither. It idled away from the green, after a significant pause, and eventually reached a cruising speed well below the limit.
Ah, but one porthole’s on the front door. What does that make it?
Someone got a Pep Boys gift card……..
The chrome hood scoop makes it all work. Wonder if it’s a shaker?
It might even have a diesel engine swap. It’s the air inlet for the intercooler on top of the engine. Like on this RAV4 diesel, see ?
That is the ugliest generation of Camry ever and I hate them with a fiery passion, but since they are a Toyota and a Camry they sold like bottled water during Hurricane Season. Good job owner of the Camry for making the roads less dull with your nearly Maroon painted car and all the doo-dads attached. Wonder if this Camry is a stick shift?
That was/is a stock Toyota color, Barcelona Red Pearl.
Leave off the 200′ of Autozone chrome edge bead, the port holes, and the hood scoop and rear wing, and I almost like it.
Almost.
Hope it’s paid off…can you imagine the look on the repo man’s face when he has to snatch this thing off the street? Or better yet, what if it was a lease car? It would cost $5,000 to un-do all of the modifications.
It may be tacky, but it still might be the best looking Camry I’ve ever seen. At least it has character.
Never lose your car in the parking lot again! Especially among the dozens of the other generic Camrys you will find parked on any given day.
What is it about red Camry’s that invites garish customization? I shot this one a while back…
http://instagram.com/p/b9DovwBoYF
Some folks just have no taste.
So I’m guessing the owner of this Camry is not leasing it?
Kill it with fire… please.
Saw this while I was loading some photos and the graphics kinda fitted with what I found here on a classic proper Ford 6, I had a feeling the Camry would get a run on the site but I prefer the Z-car, Ford tried selling Falcon here but Kiwis preferred durable stylish Fords not crap from Aussie in those days
That is the sort of paint ‘adornment’ that makes you wonder if it started from a rust repair
“Bear” needs to lighten up. Its a camry, not a ’69 Hemi Charger or a 427 Cobra. Camries are the bic lighters of the automotive world. These things are cranked out by the thousands, do their job of getting point A to point B while the owner barely gives it a thought. I can promise you that no camry will be some collectors item, so relax. Sure, this is hideous. It looks like something fisher price would make for 3 year olds. The whole thing reeks of a middle aged empty nester finally seeing fast n furious and thinking ‘hey I have an import’ then going to autozone. But hey, if you MUST drive a bland plain vanilla appliance you might as well do some goofy shit to it if its paid for.
The owner likely got sick of not being able to find it in parking lots so made it stand out. A cross between Fisher Price and Hotwheels.
Well, to each their own. Having said that though, this is certainly not terribly pretty…
Funny how some people’s quest for individuality abruptly ends at the autozone dress up section
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm did “Bear” get a rear shot to see if it is at least a V6? 🙂
Don’t hate, I put a “V6” badge on the back of one of my vehicles because the factory didn’t see fit to have a “call out” like back in the day. With the ubiquitousness of most popular vehicles today sometimes you have to personalize to find the sucker in a parking lot.
Of the 3 cars I have only one gets duplicated in parking lots the Citroen and Hillman are rare enough I can always find them fortunately the shitbox Nissan has remote locking and blinks and beeps from far away to guide me to it, best part of the whole bloody car
They didn’t put all the stick-on ‘Buick VentiPorts’ on the fender where they belong. However any non-Buick shouldn’t have them put on in the first place.
Exactly. With all the tacky garbage on this thing, the ventiports stand out the most in my mind. I think any car, aside from a proper Buick, looks stupid with them slapped on. Even stupider if they can’t even put them on the fender where they belong (I dunno how you are going to “vent” the engine from the door…) or if they put the wrong number on (6 for a 4 banger, or 6 for a v8).
There’s an older “aero” Town Car around here that has three on each side, diamond shaped to boot. Yuck.
But back in the fifties accessory ventiports were common on all sorts of cars. Possibly the worst misuse of them I ever saw back then was a four-hole mark 1 Ford Consul. Someone did this one too, on Google:
George Barris’s latest creations somehow just aren’t quite as good as they used to be…
Lol +1 🙂
Looks like someone’s changed meds. I’ve vomited better looking stuff than that.