Shane Barrington owns Thunder Mountain Truck Outfitters in Logan, Utah. Not only is the surrounding countryside ideal for four-wheeling, but popular Moab is several hours away, where folks nearby and heading through Logan make their way to this great outback of America.

As the Jeep Wrangler JK has increased in popularity locally, Shane’s wife, Candi, wanted him to build her a Jeep. She wanted a slightly lifted Jeep that would be her “boulevard cruiser,” one where she could remove the top and cruise to the mall.

The models are shapely, their makeup impeccable. They’re dressed in their best outfits, fit perfectly to their forms. And their designers have created the haute couture of the automotive industry, transforming everyday figures into strutting, sweet works of art. And many of these sweet things are as powerful and fast as they are gorgeous and stunning.

Project cars. Maybe a better term is “progress cars” or “evolutionary vehicles,” for though they’re working projects, what the design teams have created are unique vehicles, some of which will become limited editions produced for particularly avid auto aficionados, or developed into restyling kits that will give a wider consumer base the options to outfit their own ordinary vehicles that dress to impress.