While the team at Pennsylvania’s Haük Designs work magic with off road vehicles, they might not be the best guys to help you find replacement parts for your plain-vanilla Jeeps and Wranglers. Headed by Kenny Haük, the team’s designers stormed the SEMA show in Las Vegas last year with a Neo-Victorian 1947 Willys CJ2A paying tribute to rat rod culture. Taking a casual glance at this in-your-face steampunk mobile art, you might mistake it as a prop from the latest Mad Max series.
The design is a mini-library of innovation and finesse. The badass beauty features massive 44-inch Bull Tires on B.A.D. bead lock wheels and HID projectors engraved with skull logos. The windshield sports safety glass salvaged from an old house. Inside the maple wood interior, you find the nested Kicker audio system and a shifter repurposed from a Sixties-era fire truck pump handle. This rock rat Willys’ engine is as unexpected as its appearance. Powered by an old V12 from a school bus, this monster can generate over 700 hp and 1,627 Nm of torque with the help of Industrial Injections and Turbonetics air and fuel management magic.
