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Since the days of MTV’s Pimp My Ride we’ve seen some bizarre monstrosities hit the streets of cities big and small. And we all had that time when you or your high school kid wanted a two-foot tall spoiler bolted to the trunk of their boxy Nissan Sentra, thinking it looked good. Well, we have to tell you, it didn’t – In fact, you look like a tool. There’s a certain finesse one needs, an attitude, in order to pull off a totally awesome pimped ride without looking like that skinny white kid from The Offspring’s Pretty Fly, For A White Guy Video. We’re not sure whether or not the rides below count as “dope” or “mad hot” or whatever you darn youths are saying these days. Some of them probably couldn’t be taken seriously if you had members of the Bloods behind the wheel. But you have to think someone loved these beasts, because pimping your ride don’t come cheap.

Pimp Them Rides!

Pimped Out Caddy School Bus

This pimped Cadillac SUV-turned-school bus has been a staple of the internet for almost as long as Banana Phone. We’re guessing it’s an Escalade – but we remember this lowered bus being around long before Cadillac started that sport utility’s run. Unfortunately, this van isn’t rockin’ – and looks more like the short bus.

Suburban Pimp Classic – Acura Integra

You know the guy – he’s short and a little thick, probably as pale as your grandmother’s underarms, but seriously considers himself a thug. And thanks to movies like Fast and the Furious with Paul Walker he’s pretty much been vindicated. And he almost always drives a dropped down, supped up Acura Integra (sometimes it was a Honda Civic – but under all the fins and paint who can even tell anymore?) You don’t see too many spinner hubcaps on these puppies, but there is always a loud coffee can exhaust that would wake you as he dropped off your self loathing daughter at 1 am.

Japanese Pimped Trucks

It’s actually huge in Japanese trucking culture – these anime looking semi’s can haul cargo, live stock, lumber, and contain more lights than the New Jersey Boardwalk in July. It’s probably hard to get any work done with people gawking at your truck, or maybe that’s just the point. These rides are part of a “Truck Art” movement in the far east.

Pimp Your Soccer Mom – Lowered Minivan

Face it, your mom is not the coolest chick in the neighborhood. Maybe you could convince her to lower that Dodge Caravan and put some spinners inside those Firestone tires she got from Sears Auto. The first day of school you’ll ride up and impress the hell out of all those 5th graders. Then every day after that you’ll probably be laughed at or beaten up.

We are still trying to figure out if that pimped minivan is Photo Shopped.

Raised Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo’s with hydrolics and ridiculously over sized rims are am American as apple pie and hookers on East 47th St. (trust us, they are still in Manhattan). The low rider/hydro culture seems to have a love for those late ’70′s thru mid ’80′s boxy GM models. I mean don’t we all want to be as bad ass as Denzel from Training Day? “You’re in the office baby.”

Pimp That H2

Hummers are pretty much only good (at least anymore) for having ludicrous auto-video systems put into their trunks. With fluctuating gas prices you’d pretty much have to park your H2 in the garage and never move it again. This ride pimper has some great ideas, notice his subs in the rear doors. And is that a flat panel HDTV? Hope the security system in that truck includes tasers and starving pit bulls.

Pimp Your X-Wing – Star Wars Toyota Tercel

Katie Horn is probably one of the cutest Star Wars geeks (we use the G word with all love Katie) we’ve ever seen online. She’s so dedicated to her passion for all this Lucas that she transformed her Toyota Tercel into a X-Wing. It may look sloppy at first, but she’s got some great detail on this ride – those black smudges are actually blast marks from other…umm…fighters? Ms. Horn, you are a Real American Hero (even if you are not American).

Pimp My…Turtle?

We have absolutely NO idea why this was created or what it is – aside from the obvious VW New Beetle/Bug transformed into a turtle. Gives new meaning to the term “I’ve got a turtle head pokin’ out.”

Bonus – Best Pimped Car Accessories

Pimp My Muffler – Exhaust Spinners

As if your hole-punctured exhaust is not loud enough, there’s more glam to add with a spinner you can pop right on the end. Don’t expect to pass an inspection with it.

Pimp My…Shit, my XP crashed again!

Ok, seriously, how many speakers, monitors, gaming systems and hard drives do you need in one vehicle? Just hand your keys over to a chop shop and save yourself from a possible pistol whipping.

Get Fuzzy

Any good pimp needs his plush lavender interior.

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