Year in Review: The best of Rides

2013 was technically the Year of the Snake, but anyone that's been paying attention knows it's been the Year of the Car. Look back on the best new finds of the year, and also the best cars that hit the auction block, because 2014 promises to be even hotter.

Porsche 959 - $750K+
This is the baddest road-going car Porsche has ever made. A nearly 200-mile-per-hour technological tour de force, it won both the grueling Paris-Dakar Rally and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. [More...]

Plymouth Road Runner Superbird - $363K
Powerful, insane looking, and really, really rare, this is the "perfect storm" of muscle cars, originally designed to lure Nascar legend Richard Petty away from team Ford. [More...]

Full Metal Jacket Jeep - $106K
If you ever find yourself trying to survive the Zombie Apocalypse, and you wanna go R. Lee Ermy-screaming-at-Vincent D'Onofrio levels of crazy at the same time, the Full Metal Jacket Jeep from a custom shop in Dallas should fit the bill. [More...]

The Singer 'New York' 911 - $190K (Plus the Porsche)
Unlike Boyz II Men wearing bellbottoms, this Los Angeles-based Porsche customization and restoration shop merges the '70s and '90s in a way that's utterly timeless and ridiculously stylish. [More...]

The Cars of Castello Cavalcanti - Free (To Look)
Wes Anderson's vintage auto fixation, however brief, manifested itself as a sweet short film for Prada, complete with a set of rad retro racers. [More...]

Retro-modern racing prints - $81-468
There's something about vintage race shots that pretty much every car lover red-blooded man in the world can appreciate, and French car guy/amazing photographer Laurent Nivalle proved that with this series of breathtaking vintage prints that're actually modern in most respects. [More...]

Lucra 148 - $TBD
Lucra's found a way to beat the ludicrous Ferrari pricing model by keeping things simple: rock solid American V8s, top-of-the-line (yet commonly available) performance parts, and a proprietary carbon fiber molding process which keeps parts light, solid, and easy to fabricate. [More...]

Lincoln Indianapolis Coupe - $1.5M+
Every inch of this car was designed to reflect the birth of the Jet Age, including the six-barrel exhaust that came out on either side, in front of the car doors. It's a real working vehicle, too, and in its day was driven around by both Henry Ford II and Errol Flynn. [More...]

Lamborghini GoFundMe Campaign - $250k
Some dude named J.R. Glass decided he wanted a Lamborghini, and figured the best way to do it was to become a major league asshat and crowdfund the whole thing. The fact that some people actually gave him money is mind-boggling. [More...]

Equus Bass 770 - $250K
The phrases "second mortgage" and "honey, I'm sorry" immediately come to mind here, because the 2014 Equus Bass 770 is the perfect combination of vintage styling and modern tech — spoiler alert: there's a 640-horsepower Supercharged Aluminum V8 under the hood. [More...]

Low Drag Eagle GT - $1M
The outside's a faithful representation of Jaguar's best-kept secret of the early '60s, but everything from the engine, to the suspension, to the seat location has been thoroughly reworked to make the car a viable, modern, 170-mile-per-hour supercar. Oh, and the paint? It's actually made from Mercury. [More...]

Ducati 1199 TerraCorsa - $25K+
The questionably sane people at MotoCorsa in Portland, Oregon, built a Ducati superbike that you can drive up a f*cking mountain. Why? Because badass. [More...]

CERV Corvette - $1.1M
Back in the day Chevy had a private skunkworks division called CERV, or Chevrolet Engineering Research Vehicles. Their task was to create the future of Corvette, and as you can see by the 1960s beast above, they most definitely did. [More...]