Someone in the wilds of Facebook Marketplace is selling a 1985 Chevy S10 Blazer wearing a Testarossa costume, and it’s exactly as unhinged as that sentence suggests.
The builder grafted Ferrari Testarossa-inspired bodywork onto the compact SUV’s flanks, attempting to replicate the iconic side strakes that defined 1980s supercar excess. The result is a vehicle that looks like it was born from a fever dream during a Miami Vice marathon. The seller is calling it the Blazerossa, and that name alone deserves some kind of award.
The S10 Blazer, for the uninitiated, was the smaller, cheaper sibling to the full-size K5 Blazer. It was a perfectly serviceable little truck that never once, in its entire production life, asked to be confused with anything from Maranello. And yet here we are.
The listing reveals a build that is gloriously, spectacularly unfinished. The front end wears a toxic green that clashes violently with what appears to be a rattlecan deep emerald on the rear. The doors look like they were painted at a different time, possibly in a different zip code.
The window tint is bad. There is visible Bondo over custom paint. The seller notes the driver’s door still needs to be “shaved to match rest,” a detail that implies the builder believed the rest of the car had achieved some cohesive standard worth matching.
It had not.
The mirrors are stock pieces that sit on the body like afterthoughts, completely disconnected from whatever design language the rest of the build is attempting to speak. The Testarossa’s side strakes, which on the real car channeled air to the mid-mounted flat-12 with genuine aerodynamic purpose, serve exactly zero function here. This is a body-on-frame SUV powered by whatever four- or six-cylinder Chevy dropped into the S10 that year.
This is the kind of project that defies conventional automotive criticism. Judging it by normal standards misses the point entirely. The Blazerossa exists in a space beyond good or bad, a place where ambition so thoroughly outstrips execution that the gap itself becomes the art.
Facebook Marketplace has become the unofficial gallery for America’s most deranged automotive visions, the place where projects too weird for Craigslist and too unfinished for Bring a Trailer find their audience. The Blazerossa fits right in. It sits alongside tube-frame dune buggies with motorcycle engines, Pontiac Fieros wearing Lamborghini body kits, and school buses converted into questionable motorhomes.
But the Blazerossa might be king of them all, because it commits to a bit that nobody asked for with absolute sincerity. This wasn’t ironic. Someone looked at a compact Chevy truck and genuinely thought Ferrari.
Someone bought fiberglass. Someone mixed Bondo. Someone kept going.
The best possible outcome for this truck is that it never gets finished. Completion would ruin it. A polished Blazerossa would just be a bad kit car, but in its current state — half-painted, mismatched, Bondo-smeared, and gloriously wrong — it’s a monument to the unbreakable human impulse to build something nobody wanted and nothing demanded.
The asking price wasn’t listed in the source material, but it almost doesn’t matter. You’re not buying a car. You’re buying a conversation piece that happens to have wheels and, presumably, an engine that turns over at least some of the time.
Long live the Blazerossa. May it never be completed.
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