Back to the Future

ALL IN THE DETAILS

The more you look at this car, the more details you unearth. One thing we particularly love is how, despite wearing that custom Pandem 86 widebody kit, it also makes a real feature of its original Sprinter bumpers and OEM body addenda – look how the glossy black plastic at either end has been artfully reworked to follow the lines of the fat new arches, complete with original red pinstripes. It’s this level of attention to detail that really sets SEMA builds apart from the rest.

1980s Toyota has its own flux capacitor. Not a real one, obviously, but a figurative one that worms its digital tendrils into your brain’s frontal lobes as you gaze upon it, desperately trying to process the magnificence of what you’re seeing, and trebuchets you back and forth through time. You see, on the one hand this is the archetypal old-school JDM hero: the AE86 Corolla