Images from the CC Cohort by Nathan Williams.
All hail King Rat, arriving now in his no longer civilized 1971 Austin FX4 Taxi, ready for a dystopian future. Who needs manners, after all? The world is going off kilter, so better get yourselves ready. Don’t have a 1974 Australian Falcon XB to turn into a menacing Interceptor? Well, grab whatever you can. It’s not like the world is going to wait for you.
Yes, this old London taxi (we think) has gone rogue. But I doubt King Rat is bothered about looking surly or ill-natured. Indeed, that’s the point.
No need for a dystopian future to arrive when you’ve got the right window tint to make it feel like it already has.
King Rat’s windshield sent me looking for “Hoonigan”, which turned out to be a person who “operates a vehicle in an aggressive and dangerous manner.” It’s also, or so I read, a popular brand in car culture, about which I’m just finding out. Look, don’t throw rocks at me. It’s a big world, with lots of car culture all over. No need to get aggressive… much less dangerous.
How much of King Rat’s Austin is theatrics and how much is for real? From the side view, it looked like the old inline-4 is still there. But, heck, no need for huge power to behave aggressively and dangerously. (You know that’s true).
As for me, all I got around me are Tercels and older Kia Fortes. Not the most Hoonigan-like of cars out there, but like I said, you gotta work with what you’ve got. And I’d better get started fixing one to King Rat levels, before Mad Max dystopia reaches me.
Where’s the pig poop methane powered B model Mack?
That. Is. Crazed. In a cool way.
Some mixed messages on the grille, an upturned horseshoe, and underneath, the blue Leyland plughole of doom emblem.
That started life as an Austin A60 pick-up truck. Compare the swage line in the door. The grille is from an FX4 taxi.
Thankyou.
I was struggling to figure it out
THANK YOU Bob ! .
Looking at the body header over the windshield this thing was likely rusted junk so why not make an art car out of it ? .
-Nate