Unless you were a car guy in the early 80’s you cannot imagine the impact the Testarossa had on the custom-car scene. Like this VW Beetle, customized in the late 1980s by Creative Car Craft. The car currently resides in upstate New York. It’s got everything from square headlights to those iconic side-strakes from the Testarossa.
If you had a subscription to Minitruckin‘ magazine back in the day, the back pages advertized fiberglass body kits to turn your Mazda B200 pickup into one of Maranello’s machines.
Even though the Trans Am is the official cool-car of the 70’s, customizing it in the 80’s meant ditching the ‘snowflake’ wheels, adding some candy-apple red paint, and a Testarossa-style widebody kit.
The design of the Testarossa was timely, not timeless. It was heavily influential in the custom car scene, but unless you were a child of the 80’s would you really call it beautiful?