Tic Tac E36

With our annual trip to the SEMA show last week, we saw an array of heavily modified vehicles. The Las Vegas Convention Center was filled both inside and outside with cars, trucks, bikes and even boats! These stunning vehicles had spectators from all over the world who expected nothing but the best looking vehicles. As you can imagine, there were mainly cars trying to stand out from the rest, but one of them in particular captured more attention than a lot of the others.

This is Carl Taylor's 20 year old BMW E36 M3. That's right, 20 years old! Most of the cars that showed up to SEMA were fairly newer (we even saw some new concept cars), but Carl's M3 still takes the cake for us. Why you may ask?.... Well just look at it! It's very different from what we've seen before with BMW tuning.

Let's start off with the wide Rocket Bunny kit. I think we can all agree that the big trend with aftermarket exterior mods for 2013/2014 is adding wide hips to cars. Take a look at all the Rocket Bunny projects, Liberty Walk and RWB cars. We can't disagree. Adding wide fenders to cars that rightfully deserves them is perfectly fine in our book. Carl's E36 is definitely one of those cars.

Aside from the kit and the wild graphics, which go perfectly for the 20 year old car due to the fact of the popularity of Tic Tac's at the time, the 17" Rotiform, five spoke wheels with a -80 offset give the set up a mixture of functionality and the perfect stance aesthetic that we all love. Look closely and you'll see that the M bumpers were swapped out for non M bumpers and the whole chassis is slammed on Airlift suspension.

And before you go hating on how this car with its track inspired look and feel to it was ruined because it's on air, note that Carl was seen leaving the SEMA show riding low and scraping his way down the vegas strip. And southern Californians, keep your eye out for this hot M3 on the streets, because Carl also daily's it.

Photo Credit: StanceWorks