Auto presentations are a shell of what they as soon as had been, with method fewer automakers displaying on the conference facilities and those that are there no longer essentially the use of the chance to expose one thing untouched. Porsche doesn’t even walk to the Los Angeles Auto Display anymore, which left a weighty area viewable at the display ground for some other emblem to snatch. That emblem is West Coast Customs, and year in most cases I’d’ve in short walked via, noticeable their unfortunate builds and left, the day before today I spent about half-hour observing a automotive that they had on show: The chopped-up Maybach 57S from Kanye West and Jay-Z’s “Otis” music video.
A monitor from Ye and Jay’s finest 2011 collaborative booklet “Watch the Throne” that sampled namesake Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness,” the track video for “Otis” was once directed by means of Spike Jonze and discharged on August 11, 2011. Within the video, Kanye and Jay-Z cut up and adjust the Maybach with saws and alternative energy gear earlier than drifting it round a transport backyard. It’s epic, and it needful the web (particularly the car facet of it) when the video first dropped. The track additionally occurs to have one of the most best possible car bars ever: “They ain’t see me ‘cause I pulled up in my other Benz, last week I was in my other other Benz.”
I’m truthfully surprised that the Maybach continues to be round. The automobile was once offered as a part of Phillips de Pury & Co’s Pristine York Fresh Artwork Night public sale please see era, the place it hammered for $60,000 in spite of its $100,000 to $150,000 estimate (and the automobile having a retail value thrice that determine). No less than all that cash going to treasure.
It’s vague when West Coast Customs received the Maybach or what the automobile has been as much as within the decade for the reason that track video dropped, however it appears to be like precisely because it did again upcoming. It’s a fully wild factor to behold, with such a lot of humorous main points to soak up just like the hood being impaired as a trunk and the trunk being impaired as a hood. It indisputably doesn’t glance very cover, however a minimum of there appear to be some chassis reinforcements. I’d rock the hell out of it — if it even nonetheless runs, this is. If it doesn’t, how withered may just it actually be to create it roadworthy once more?
When you find yourself in Los Angeles between now and December 1, walk to the automobile display. Although all that you simply see is the Otis Maybach, it’ll be utility it. There are admittedly a pair alternative cool issues within the WCC sales space, like Paris Hilton’s purple Bentley Continental GT (that she nonetheless owns!), and the primary display itself if truth be told noticed the debuts of a number of attention-grabbing untouched fashions. Not anything is as cool because the Maybach, despite the fact that.
