Unlike many one-off custom vehicles brought to auto shows, the 2012 F-550 is fully functional.
"It's something that architects and designers have been wanting to do for years, but it's always been ultraluxury, one-off custom stuff," said Rob Roland, the executive vice president of Dana Innovations in San Clemente, Calif., the parent company of Trufig.
The company wrote that during the early hobbyist days the "platform at that time was very much free-form, with the goal of serving as many, mostly one-off, custom maker projects as possible".
The "hottest" car at this year's L.A. Auto Show might just be Lexus' Sriracha IS, a one-off custom creation designed to attract a young market.
Originally created to fuel the collective fantasies of a generation anxious to forget the olive-drabness of World War II, the cars that Mr. Bortz collects are one-off, custom-built vehicles that lived short, surreal lives on display at auto shows in the 1950's and 1960's.
Stepping Through Walls features resin and vinyl editions, one-off customs, paintings and illustrations, and more.
Ferrari's one-offs are custom-made to melt the internet.
A one-off package of custom and hand-cut pieces of vinyl leftovers from Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra and text, each copy of Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra, once completed, becomes a one-of-a-kind piece of visual art and musical score.
Staff are taken off customs: "Guns and drugs don't matter as much as queues," one officer says.
We had to pay off customs.
Though the firm is building custom one-offs, they are also working on a number of larger projects — one, in Louisiana, involves building nine homes on two blocks of infill property in a historic Baton Rouge neighborhood.
