The 2008 Aston Martin V-8 Vantage roadster handles and drives exactly how it looks from the exterior: seriously fast and equally luxurious. The 4.3-liter engine is capable of 380 horsepower and 302 lb-ft. of torque, which is quick enough to propel the car from 0-60 mph in 5.1 seconds. What the roadster lacks in power when compared to its competition, it makes up for in style, character and exclusivity. Even its seductive low rumble at idle and roar at full throttle is enough to make knees quiver.

According to the Aston Martin Heritage Trust, only 3,020 4.3-liter roadsters were made in 2008. This car, currently up for auction on Hemmings, is a clean, low-mileage example of the Vantage Roadster. The seller confirms that the engine is original, starts immediately, and purrs like a kitten with no smoke, weeps or leaks. It’s equipped with Aston’s optional six-speed Sportshift transmission, which has an automatic mode if the driver doesn’t feel like paddle shifting through the city.

The luxury sports car’s exterior and interior is described as being in excellent, like-new condition. Everything works as it should, including the power-adjustable heated seats, power windows and locks, navigation, and Bluetooth audio system. It has just 13,132 and reportedly has always been garaged and has never been driven in the rain. Find the full details and over 40 detailed photos at this link.

The 2023 Detroit Autorama show had something for everyone, from muscle cars and sports cars, to race cars and off-the-wall customs. Pickup trucks were prominent in the mix, with an abundance of build types that represented several niches. Plenty of show trucks made an appearance, including mini trucks, dazzling customs, heavy haulers, monster trucks, race trucks, and preservation pickups.

Two top-of-the-line custom trucks, a 1953 Chevrolet 3100 and 1958 Chevrolet Cameo, were nominated in the Great 8 finalists, but did not receive the 2023 Ridler Award. Here are more pickups out of the 2023 Detroit Autorama that you may not have seen.

1941 Ford Truck

Built by Samson Design for owners Brian and Monica Tuell, this Axalta Magic Red pickup rides on its original frame with a Heidt’s front suspension. The 350-ci engine is dressed with custom painted air cleaner and valve covers to match the exterior tones. Inside, the plush, soft leather seats are finished with diamond stitching and stylish Classic Instruments gauges keep the driver informed.

1941 Ford Truck

Built by Samson Design for owners Brian and Monica Tuell, this Axalta Magic Red pickup rides on its original frame with a Heidt’s front suspension. The 350-ci engine is dressed with custom painted air cleaner and valve covers to match the exterior tones. Inside, the plush, soft leather seats are finished with diamond stitching and stylish Classic Instruments gauges keep the driver informed.

1941 Ford Truck

Built by Samson Design for owners Brian and Monica Tuell, this Axalta Magic Red pickup rides on its original frame with a Heidt’s front suspension. The 350-ci engine is dressed with custom painted air cleaner and valve covers to match the exterior tones. Inside, the plush, soft leather seats are finished with diamond stitching and stylish Classic Instruments gauges keep the driver informed.

1941 Ford Truck

Built by Samson Design for owners Brian and Monica Tuell, this Axalta Magic Red pickup rides on its original frame with a Heidt’s front suspension. The 350-ci engine is dressed with custom painted air cleaner and valve covers to match the exterior tones. Inside, the plush, soft leather seats are finished with diamond stitching and stylish Classic Instruments gauges keep the driver informed.

1941 Ford Truck

Built by Samson Design for owners Brian and Monica Tuell, this Axalta Magic Red pickup rides on its original frame with a Heidt’s front suspension. The 350-ci engine is dressed with custom painted air cleaner and valve covers to match the exterior tones. Inside, the plush, soft leather seats are finished with diamond stitching and stylish Classic Instruments gauges keep the driver informed.

1941 Ford Truck

Built by Samson Design for owners Brian and Monica Tuell, this Axalta Magic Red pickup rides on its original frame with a Heidt’s front suspension. The 350-ci engine is dressed with custom painted air cleaner and valve covers to match the exterior tones. Inside, the plush, soft leather seats are finished with diamond stitching and stylish Classic Instruments gauges keep the driver informed.

1941 Ford Truck

Built by Samson Design for owners Brian and Monica Tuell, this Axalta Magic Red pickup rides on its original frame with a Heidt’s front suspension. The 350-ci engine is dressed with custom painted air cleaner and valve covers to match the exterior tones. Inside, the plush, soft leather seats are finished with diamond stitching and stylish Classic Instruments gauges keep the driver informed.

1941 Ford Truck

Built by Samson Design for owners Brian and Monica Tuell, this Axalta Magic Red pickup rides on its original frame with a Heidt’s front suspension. The 350-ci engine is dressed with custom painted air cleaner and valve covers to match the exterior tones. Inside, the plush, soft leather seats are finished with diamond stitching and stylish Classic Instruments gauges keep the driver informed.

1941 Ford Truck

Built by Samson Design for owners Brian and Monica Tuell, this Axalta Magic Red pickup rides on its original frame with a Heidt’s front suspension. The 350-ci engine is dressed with custom painted air cleaner and valve covers to match the exterior tones. Inside, the plush, soft leather seats are finished with diamond stitching and stylish Classic Instruments gauges keep the driver informed.

1992 Ford Ranger

This brilliant blue custom Ford Ranger caught our eye from aisles away. Concept and design by Kevin Urbanowicz and Steve Dalton and paint and bodywork by Urbanowicz and Ryan Collier, the truck has a long list of modifications executed by the team. Some of the most noticeable changes include shaving of the Ford grille, firewall, cowl, drip rail, door handles, gas door, taillights, tailgate, locks and emblems.

1992 Ford Ranger

This brilliant blue custom Ford Ranger caught our eye from aisles away. Concept and design by Kevin Urbanowicz and Steve Dalton and paint and bodywork by Urbanowicz and Ryan Collier, the truck has a long list of modifications executed by the team. Some of the most noticeable changes include shaving of the Ford grille, firewall, cowl, drip rail, door handles, gas door, taillights, tailgate, locks and emblems.

1992 Ford Ranger

This brilliant blue custom Ford Ranger caught our eye from aisles away. Concept and design by Kevin Urbanowicz and Steve Dalton and paint and bodywork by Urbanowicz and Ryan Collier, the truck has a long list of modifications executed by the team. Some of the most noticeable changes include shaving of the Ford grille, firewall, cowl, drip rail, door handles, gas door, taillights, tailgate, locks and emblems.

1948 Chevy Hydrogen Truck

Performance industry expert Mike Copeland has always been the type of innovator who strives to push the boundaries of automotive technology. He led the teams that developed the hydrogen-powered ‘48 Chevrolet pickup. Diversified Creations built the truck itself, including adaptations for hydrogen fuel, and Arrington Performance built its supercharged 6.2-liter LS engine to run on hydrogen. The truck is appropriately dubbed “Zero” for zero carbon emissions.

1948 Chevy Hydrogen Truck

Performance industry expert Mike Copeland has always been the type of innovator who strives to push the boundaries of automotive technology. He led the teams that developed the hydrogen-powered ‘48 Chevrolet pickup. Diversified Creations built the truck, including adaptations for hydrogen fuel, and Arrington Performance built its supercharged 6.2-liter LS engine to run on hydrogen. The truck is appropriately dubbed “Zero” for zero carbon emissions.

Mini Truck Madness

A slew of mini trucks hit the ground for this year’s Autorama, and although they sat lower than other builds on the show floor, they stood out with each having unique custom details. Here, a blue 1995 Chevy S10 sported shaved handles and tailgate, custom graphics and grille, among other mods. A deep green 1993 Mazda B2600 displayed eye-catching roof panel paint, and a brilliant white 1989 Ford Ranger GT boasted a seemingly endless list of modifications.

Mini Truck Madness

A slew of mini trucks hit the ground for this year’s Autorama, and although they sat lower than other builds on the show floor, they stood out with each having unique custom details. Here, a blue 1995 Chevy S10 sported shaved handles and tailgate, custom graphics and grille, among other mods. A deep green 1993 Mazda B2600 displayed eye-catching roof panel paint, and a brilliant white 1989 Ford Ranger GT boasted a seemingly endless list of modifications.

Mini Truck Madness

A slew of mini trucks hit the ground for this year’s Autorama, and although they sat lower than other builds on the show floor, they stood out with each having unique custom details. Here, a blue 1995 Chevy S10 sported shaved handles and tailgate, custom graphics and grille, among other mods. A deep green 1993 Mazda B2600 displayed eye-catching roof panel paint, and a brilliant white 1989 Ford Ranger GT boasted a seemingly endless list of modifications.

Mini Truck Madness

A slew of mini trucks hit the ground for this year’s Autorama, and although they sat lower than other builds on the show floor, they stood out with each having unique custom details. Here, a blue 1995 Chevy S10 sported shaved handles and tailgate, custom graphics and grille, among other mods. A deep green 1993 Mazda B2600 displayed eye-catching roof panel paint, and a brilliant white 1989 Ford Ranger GT boasted a seemingly endless list of modifications.

Mini Truck Madness

A slew of mini trucks hit the ground for this year’s Autorama, and although they sat lower than other builds on the show floor, they stood out with each having unique custom details. Here, a blue 1995 Chevy S10 sported shaved handles and tailgate, custom graphics and grille, among other mods. A deep green 1993 Mazda B2600 displayed eye-catching roof panel paint, and a brilliant white 1989 Ford Ranger GT boasted a seemingly endless list of modifications.

Mini Truck Madness

A slew of mini trucks hit the ground for this year’s Autorama, and although they sat lower than other builds on the show floor, they stood out with each having unique custom details. Here, a blue 1995 Chevy S10 sported shaved handles and tailgate, custom graphics and grille, among other mods. A deep green 1993 Mazda B2600 displayed eye-catching roof panel paint, and a brilliant white 1989 Ford Ranger GT boasted a seemingly endless list of modifications.

Mini Truck Madness

A slew of mini trucks hit the ground for this year’s Autorama, and although they sat lower than other builds on the show floor, they stood out with each having unique custom details. Here, a blue 1995 Chevy S10 sported shaved handles and tailgate, custom graphics and grille, among other mods. A deep green 1993 Mazda B2600 displayed eye-catching roof panel paint, and a brilliant white 1989 Ford Ranger GT boasted a seemingly endless list of modifications.

Mini Truck Madness

A slew of mini trucks hit the ground for this year’s Autorama, and although they sat lower than other builds on the show floor, they stood out with each having unique custom details. Here, a blue 1995 Chevy S10 sported shaved handles and tailgate, custom graphics and grille, among other mods. A deep green 1993 Mazda B2600 displayed eye-catching roof panel paint, and a brilliant white 1989 Ford Ranger GT boasted a seemingly endless list of modifications.

Mini Truck Madness

A slew of mini trucks hit the ground for this year’s Autorama, and although they sat lower than other builds on the show floor, they stood out with each having unique custom details. Here, a blue 1995 Chevy S10 sported shaved handles and tailgate, custom graphics and grille, among other mods. A deep green 1993 Mazda B2600 displayed eye-catching roof panel paint, and a brilliant white 1989 Ford Ranger GT boasted a seemingly endless list of modifications.

Mini Truck Madness

A slew of mini trucks hit the ground for this year’s Autorama, and although they sat lower than other builds on the show floor, they stood out with each having unique custom details. Here, a blue 1995 Chevy S10 sported shaved handles and tailgate, custom graphics and grille, among other mods. A deep green 1993 Mazda B2600 displayed eye-catching roof panel paint, and a brilliant white 1989 Ford Ranger GT boasted a seemingly endless list of modifications.

Mini Truck Madness

A slew of mini trucks hit the ground for this year’s Autorama, and although they sat lower than other builds on the show floor, they stood out with each having unique custom details. Here, a blue 1995 Chevy S10 sported shaved handles and tailgate, custom graphics and grille, among other mods. A deep green 1993 Mazda B2600 displayed eye-catching roof panel paint, and a brilliant white 1989 Ford Ranger GT boasted a seemingly endless list of modifications.

Mini Truck Madness

A slew of mini trucks hit the ground for this year’s Autorama, and although they sat lower than other builds on the show floor, they stood out with each having unique custom details. Here, a blue 1995 Chevy S10 sported shaved handles and tailgate, custom graphics and grille, among other mods. A deep green 1993 Mazda B2600 displayed eye-catching roof panel paint, and a brilliant white 1989 Ford Ranger GT boasted a seemingly endless list of modifications.

Mini Truck Madness

A slew of mini trucks hit the ground for this year’s Autorama, and although they sat lower than other builds on the show floor, they stood out with each having unique custom details. Here, a blue 1995 Chevy S10 sported shaved handles and tailgate, custom graphics and grille, among other mods. A deep green 1993 Mazda B2600 displayed eye-catching roof panel paint, and a brilliant white 1989 Ford Ranger GT boasted a seemingly endless list of modifications.

1960 Mack B-61 “Rat Mack”

This beast of a hauler attracted crowds in the basement level of the Detroit Autorama car show. Owned by Shannon Brown and built be Trackside Auto Custom Restoration and C. Miller Customs, the Rat Mack sits on a 1980 GMC Motorhome chassis with Ride Tech suspension. A 12-valve 5.9-liter Cummins Diesel engine provides the torque and horses required to haul precious cargo.

1960 Mack B-61 “Rat Mack”

This beast of a hauler attracted crowds in the basement level of the Detroit Autorama car show. Owned by Shannon Brown and built be Trackside Auto Custom Restoration and C. Miller Customs, the Rat Mack sits on a 1980 GMC Motorhome chassis with Ride Tech suspension. A 12-valve 5.9-liter Cummins Diesel engine provides the torque and horses required to haul precious cargo.

1960 Mack B-61 “Rat Mack”

This beast of a hauler attracted crowds in the basement level of the Detroit Autorama car show. Owned by Shannon Brown and built be Trackside Auto Custom Restoration and C. Miller Customs, the Rat Mack sits on a 1980 GMC Motorhome chassis with Ride Tech suspension. A 12-valve 5.9-liter Cummins Diesel engine provides the torque and horses required to haul precious cargo.

Gallery: More custom trucks from the 2023 Detroit Autorama

Gallery: More custom trucks from the 2023 Detroit Autorama

Gallery: More Pickup Trucks from the 2023 Detroit Autorama

Date: 1967

Location: Grand Bend, Ontario

Source: via London Free Press / Facebook

What do you see here?

Josh Mazerolle doesn’t smoke, never has, never will. Regardless, he said the Marlboro-inspired paint scheme for his 1982 Cadillac Sedan DeVille was just too spot-on to pass up.

“The car’s already shaped like a pack of cigarettes,” he said. “Plus it’s got that cream paint with some patina, it was kind of a gross car.”

Thus with some simple masking, some red paint, and liberal appropriation of the Marlboro font, the Whoop-DeVille was thrust upon the Internet in a blatant effort to, as Mazerolle said, “instigate a emotional response,” “make it look cool without sucking a lot of my life away,” and also provide Mazerolle with a winter ride that he could also drive to Holley’s LS Fest and feature on “Deathwish,” the car build show he stars in on Amazon Prime.

“And it’s gotten a lotta laughs, that’s for sure,” he said.

The Cadillac, to the best of Mazerolle’s knowledge, started out as a Florida car before eventually migrating north to New Hampshire, where Mazerolle lives. Rust wasn’t a problem for it, but the “notoriously bad” 125hp 4.1-liter V-8 with Digital Fuel Injection was, and with a bum engine, the car nearly met its fate at a local salvage yard.

“Apparently it was going across the scales when the junkyard owner’s son said, ‘Nope, it’s mine,’ and stuffed a junkyard 5.3 in it,” Mazerolle said.

The early LS-based engine – most probably a 285hp LM7 out of a GMT800 Chevrolet Silverado – more than doubled the 4100’s power rating without any modifications and fit neatly and easily into the DeVille’s engine bay. The swap was nearly finished, too, when the junkyard owner’s son put the Cadillac up for sale.

“I figured it was an easy thing for me,” Mazerolle said. “It just needed an exhaust and a brake caliper.”

He fully intended to fix it and drive it just the way it was, but as he started in on the caliper, a case of the might-as-wells sprang up. He’d often wondered what a GM B-body car would look like with a Ford Twin I-Beam or Twin Traction Beam axle (what he calls “whoop scissors”) under the front of it, so he figured if he had the front end of the Cadillac apart, he might as well grab one of the Ford setups to see how it’d fit.

“I’m an off-road guy, and those TTBs get a lot of wheel travel without having to spend much money,” he said. “It’s not a really good setup, but it’s cool.”

In the end, he sourced two Twin I-Beam setups from a pair of two-wheel-drive 1995 Ford F-250s just to use both passenger-side axle arms, which he then mounted to a single pivot in the center of the car, giving the setup the exact width that Mazerolle wanted. He kept the Ford disc brakes and eight-lug spindles but rather than try to fit the Ford coil springs, he fabricated mounts for Profender bypass shocks with position-sensitive dampening and custom-fabricated control arms that gave him 20 inches of wheel travel. To ensure zero bump-steer with the suspension setup, he custom-built a steering system with long tie rods that also share a common center pivot.

“In my head, it fit better than it actually did,” he said. “It took building the car to realize I’m an idiot.”

Around back, he matched the front end’s new height with an eight-lug GM 14-bolt rear axle fitted with disc brakes and suspended on 1999 Chevrolet S-10 ZR-2 springs with custom-length shackles. Seventeen-inch Hummer H2 wheels bolted right up to both the Ford front spindles and the 14-bolt rear axle. Falcon Wildpeak M/T tires provided appropriate knobbiness for what Mazerolle calls a “trophy car.”

Other than adding a complete Flowmaster exhaust, the LS engine remained untouched. So did the Cadillac’s stock TH200-4R transmission, and Mazerolle instantly came to regret leaving it so when he discovered it had given up the ghost on the Whoop-DeVille’s test drive to the gas station to fill up for the trip to Kentucky for last year’s LS Fest East. Rather than turn around, Mazerolle limped the car to Gearstar Performance Transmission in Akron, Ohio, where he convinced them to let him swap out the stock transmission for one of Gearstar’s Level 5 TH200-4R performance transmissions in the company’s parking lot. “The LS will get a supercharger, so I wanted to make sure we were prepared for that,” Mazerolle said. “We’re just not there yet.”

Still, he managed to make it to the show, get plenty of social media exposure for the car, and dial in the front suspension on the off-road course. Since then, he’s followed through on his intention of making it his winter driver, though he’s also considering not just adding the aforementioned supercharger but also taking it desert racing out West. “I think it’d be cool on a short course,” he said.