I was jealous when Jay Ramey street-spotted a GAZ-21 Volga a few years back (sadly, not a red-star-wheel-equipped Glorious ...

Imagine taking two beat-up cars, one a Soviet-era relic, the other a wrecked BMW, and reshaping them into a street rod that channels the look of a million-dollar hypercar. Sounds impossible, right?

Denver roads were pure ice that day, but that can't stop an automotive journalist in an AWD-equipped 1996 Subaru Sambar Dias II Maleza Super Charger! I hopped in and used every one of its 658 cubic ...