A lot of you will already be familiar with this car. If you're the sort of person who goes to modified car shows (and that's got to be about 95% of you, right?), you'll have seen this at some event or other. And it doesn't just turn up, it's there to take names – look at the windscreen, you can see that it's scooped the silverware at the Players Classic, Fitted UK, Tucked at the Museum, StillStatic and more… and that was just the 2022 show season. It had been evolving across the years for some time (we definitely remember seeing it with a sit-up-and-beg nosecone at Wheels Day 2015; that year it was the subject of a feature in Custom Car magazine, detailing its rebirth from rusty and unloved saloon to mouldbreaking and scene-stealing hot rod), but the question everyone was asking across the summer of 2023 was: where did the Misfit go? After all those years of showground success, it popped out of existence.
There were rumours about its fate,parts, but the truth of the matter is that it's actually been on a little celebrity holiday. The photos you see here were in fact shot around a year or so ago, at the tail end of 2022, at which point its owner had put it through an online auction on Car & Classic and sold it to… well, we can't tell you who was driving it home in early 2023, but let's just say that they're a very well-known TV personality. Someone who thought the Misfit was a bit of alwight. He embraced it among his growing collection of weird and offbeat cars, and there it remained for the rest of the year.
