15 Cars We Can’t Believe Were Actually Seen on the Road

People do some truly strange things to cars. A few modifications are ugly. Others are confusing. Then there are the ones that make you wonder how the car ever made it out of the driveway, let alone onto a public road. Giant wings, fake vents, questionable exhausts, homemade bodywork, and plenty of parts that seem to have come from somewhere other than an auto shop show up here. Some are elaborate. Others look like they took one afternoon and a trip to the hardware store. Here are 15 cars we genuinely cannot believe were seen on the road.

Chrome stick-on vents cover nearly every available section of this van, including the doors, fenders, and rear panels.

PVC pipe makes up part of this homemade exhaust setup, with several pieces clearly visible at the back.

This truck has a wooden hood scoop, wooden bars behind the cab, and a matching wooden cover over the bed.

Fake vents run across the doors and body panels, with barely any empty space left between them.

A fake hood scoop, decorative side vents, and a shiny "Limited Edition" badge decorate an otherwise ordinary Volkswagen.

This Civic has a large spoiler at the rear and another mounted above the back window, just in case the first one felt lonely.

A red car wrapped in repeating fake wood panels somehow lands somewhere between retro station wagon and extremely confused furniture.

A base-model car with hubcaps ended up wearing a rear wing large enough to suggest considerably bigger ambitions.

Between the decals, fake vents, giant Band-Aid, and tiny spoiler, the owner seems to have treated every empty panel as unfinished business.

This Ram has an unusually long cab with extra doors and a dual-wheel rear end.

A huge rear wing towers over this otherwise modest economy car and dominates the entire back end.

This car has large rear aero pieces and even more attached up top, which starts to make the whole vehicle look suspiciously ready for takeoff.

Wooden panels and trim cover so much of this vehicle that it looks less like a car modification and more like a home-improvement project that escaped the driveway.

A tiny fake hood scoop sits in the middle of the hood, joined by several equally decorative vents along the sides.

Someone added a huge black extension across the nose, complete with its own grille and lights, leaving the original front end awkwardly visible behind it.