While on my way to help some friends with their computer, I spotted this beast. It’s an AMC Gremlin, a car model of some considerable notoriety. I’m not sure of the brand/model of the chassis to which it’s affixed, but it makes a pretty proportional 4×4. Now it just needs some paint and TLC.

The license plate reads “MOGWAI.” For those of you who don’t get that… you are obviously not children of the 1980s. That or you didn’t see this movie. In any case, I caught the reference instantly.

This was a pleasant surprise, because I already had the “4×4 Mongrel Trifecta” completed:

The 4×4 Cadillac was one of my favorites. This has got to be on a Suburban chassis, I can’t think of anything else big enough! Maybe a big extended cab pickup frame.

Then there’s the 4×4 Mercedes. I bet the engineers back in Stuttgart never imagined this! No idea on the chassis here.

I called this one a “Four by Firebird.” I’ll put this one up against KITT in the original Knight Rider any day! This one is on a Chevy S-10 chassis, which I knew by sight but also from the “Vortec” sticker on the side of the car.

I figured my work was done with the trifecta. Then I found myself employing a term that doesn’t even exist in my dictionary as this fourth photo op presented itself. If I ever run into that pink/red El Camino 4×4 that used to sit in the used car lot over at Cedric Theel a long time ago, I’ll have the quintfecta! Ugh…I need to come up with better terminology. I could say something like “4×4 by four” I suppose, that’s got a nice ring to it…but what happens when I see a fifth?