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File this under “things that shouldn’t exist, but how awesome it is that they do!” Out of the town of Spokane, Washington comes a so-ca...

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These tinkerers make the most of castoff materials to build an array of wild cars. Tim Lorentz with the LaBoata in Spokane, Wash.Credit...Allie Lorentz May 6, 2021 Tim Lorentz, a special-education teacher in Spokane, Wash., loves both cars and boats. He has raced cars and has owned a variety of muscle and exotic vehicles. “Car guys always want to own or drive a unique car that no one else owns,” Mr. Lorentz said. “I created an eight-passenger convertible. Why not a boat mounted over a convertible? I have never seen another one like it.” And so the LaBoata was born. Mr. Lorentz, now 65...

When One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Transmission Building cars from old fridges and junkyard parts, these tinkerers make the most of castoff materials to build an array of wild and impressive cars. Ernie Adams, center, built a shrunken but street-legal replica of a 1949 Mercury that is always a crowd-pleaser at car shows.Credit...Kevin Adams By Mercedes Lilienthal May 6, 2021 A man in Arizona builds his shrunken cars out of refrigerators, but you’d never know it by looking at them. In Washington State, a teacher built his car from a boat, and there’s no mistaking it. And...