Customizers around the world have been creating deliberately wild-looking cars for many decades.
The Atom is an extreme example is almost no styling at all. The body of the car is also its spaceframe chassis, through which the driver and many of the components can easily be seen.
Although the Audi Type K was technically advanced, it looked pretty much like most other 1920s cars until Paul Jaray (1889-1974) got his hands on it.
Like the Ariel Atom, the BAC Mono and its successor, the BAC Mono R (pictured) look the way they do because they were designed to be fast, not pretty.
The bug was almost a social comment on its 1970-1974 production life when Flower Power was losing its influence and before punk came along to change everything.
The most other-worldly luxury cars of the 1930s were generally fitted with bodies manufactured by specialist coachbuilders. That does not apply to this Type 57S of 1936
The Cadillac Eldorado serves as well as any other car as the poster child for glamorous American vehicle design in the 1950s.
Although it was road-legal, the T1 was considered by reviewers to be a bit extreme for use on public roads. On the plus side, it performed outstandingly well on test tracks.
Although it looked very much like a concept, the SSR was a genuine production pickup designed to resemble the Chevrolet Advance Design trucks of the immediate post-War period.
Launched in 1934, the Chrysler Airflow and its DeSoto sibling were among the first production cars designed to persuade air to move around them rather than bashing it out of the way.
The DS had high-level rear indicators right from the start, and directional headlights from 1967 onwards.
The Dodge Charger Daytona enormous rear wing made it one of the four Winged Warriors, and the first of two Aero Warriors, to compete in NASCAR in 1969 and 1970.
The Dodge Royal was produced across three generations for just six model years in the mid to late 1950s.