What do you get when you stretch the front of a Suzuki Samurai out & stuff a 425 horsepower Corvette engine under the hood? The Lightning Samurai, built by SuzukiConversion.com. It’s apparently a one-off, but I’m guessing they could churn out another if someone were to come up with $25,000.

The car has been converted to 2-wheel drive, and also features a 6-speed Camaro transmission, narrowed rear end to make room for the extra wide rear tires & antilock disk brakes on all four wheels. they say it’ll do 160mph, and will cruise at 140. I believe it.

It looks a little funny with that extra long nose on it, but I guess the short little engine bay on a stock Samurai isn’t quite enough for the LT1. They’ve got a nice set of photos on their site — I nabbed them just in case they sell the thing & take down the pics — but I’d sure like to see what it looks like with the top off, since that’s the way I’d be driving it.