VM-001 / ISSUE 07 EST. IN BAD JUDGMENT
APPALACHIA, USA

Bad ideas. Good machines.

Unreasonable automobiles from the hills of Kentucky.

Meet the machines What's all this, then?

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SPECIAL EQUIPMENT DIVISION / PAGE 02

We don't build sensible cars.

We take the forgotten, the overlooked, and the occasionally questionable, then turn them into something worth looking at.

Not everything needs a thousand horsepower. Not everything needs perfect paint. Sometimes all a machine needs is the right stance, the right details, and someone unreasonable enough to see what it could become.

Illustrated V8 with a blower — PART NO. 066

Illustrated open-face racing helmet — FIG. 7 / HEADGEAR

THE MACHINES / PROJECT NO. 001

Meet the trouble.

Everything above is ink. This part is real.

Night Shift head-on, low from the gravel: black 1976 Chevrolet C10 with yellow headlamps

01 / NIGHT SHIFT

Black paint. Yellow eyes.

And a stance that sits a little too low to be polite.

DETAIL / DOOR BADGE

Old iron. Bad intentions.

Plate 03SIDE PROFILE / STILL IN THE GARAGE

CHEVROLET C10 / 1976

1976 Chevrolet C10 Stepside.

Built with character, driven without ceremony.

Plate 04OUT ON THE ROAD / STILL IN THE GARAGE

STATUS / STILL CAUSING TROUBLE

Enough attitude to make an ordinary road feel interesting.

Night Shift's small-block: orange block, blue valve covers, yellow plug wires

400 C.I. / SMALL BLOCK

Project 001. Night Shift.

A small-block Chevrolet, black paint, race-inspired details. The whole build, written down.

Engine: Small-block 400
Wheels: 15×10 Aero steel
Tires: 275/60R15 Cobra G/T
Stance: Lowered, axle flip

See the build Shop the parts

Good taste is overrated.

Character first.

A machine doesn't need to be expensive to be interesting.

PART NO. 101 / ANY BUDGET

02 Drive the

damn thing.

Builds are meant to be driven, not permanently displayed under fluorescent lights.

Nothing
is off
limits.

An old Camaro, a forgotten luxury coupe, a battered pickup, or something nobody else would think to modify. The platform doesn't matter as much as the idea.

03 / ALL PLATFORMS CONSIDERED

SHOP MANUAL / REVISED WHENEVER

Questionable decisions. Considerable effort.

How a Varmint gets made. Pick a figure.

FIG. 1

Find the forgotten one.

Back lots, old classifieds, the far end of somebody's field. We go looking for the machine everybody else drove past.

MAIL-ORDER DEPT. / ISSUE 07

Bad influence. Good merch.

PART NO. 066

The Possum Die-Cut

Official bad influence. Sticks to toolboxes, bumpers, and questionable decisions.
PART NO. 013

X-Eye Patch

Embroidered. Authentic garage nonsense.
PART NO. 021

The VM-001 Print

The possum, full size, on heavy paper. Proudly unreasonable.
PART NO. 007

The Bolt

Some assembly required.