Copacetic Magazine

For Issue 4 of Copacetic we’ve searched far and wide to find cars whose builds have been approached from a different angle. Retropower’s Austin Allegro, for instance, reframes one of British Leyland’s less fondly remembered offerings as a focused sports car with pin-sharp handling and all mod cons. Ruffian Cars’ Galaxie 500 takes a huge wafty barge and reinvents it as a hardcore track weapon. The Get Lost Lotus turns the early Elise into a rugged off-roader (seriously), and we also feature a classic Rolls-Royce Corniche that’s been turned into a shooting brake designed to carry muddy bicycles, and a C5 Corvette converted to hand controls for its wheelchair-using owner. Then there’s the pair of box-fresh MINIs reworked into otherworldly creations by collaborators Deus Ex Machina, the hard-to-explain GMA S1 LM, the super-obscure Toyota Sprinter Carib swapped to 4A-GE power, and a bunch of sublime restomods in the form of Prodrive’s P25 celebration of the iconic Impreza, Tolman’s glorious 205 GTI, and Kamm Manufaktur’s sylph-like all-carbon 912C.
In addition to that, we’ve got a beguiling road trip story with four UK-built cars driving the full width of the USA to SEMA to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a show report from the fabulous SEMA Show itself, plus a look behind the scenes at Gas Monkey Garage. Get you some of that!