Basic Trope: A vehicle is made up of components of several other vehicles.
- Straight: Bob's car has the body of a Chevrolet Corvette but the engine from a Ford Mustang.
- Exaggerated: Literally every last nut and bolt on the car came from a different vehicle altogether, sometimes not even actual vehicles: the door handles were salvaged from house doors.
- Downplayed: Bob's Corvette was rebuilt from parts salvaged from several different model years of 'vettes, but they were all the same generation of Corvette, so the parts are the same.
- Justified: Bob is a tuner for drag racing cars and is deliberately trying to produce the most optimized performance possible, regardless of whether the parts match the model or manufacturer.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: Alice incorrectly assumes Bob's Corvette is a Franken-car and is corrected.
- Double Subverted: Bob has two Corvettes: the one Alice was looking at in his driveway is OEM, but the project car in his garage really is being rebuilt with whatever Bob can salvage.
- Parodied: Bob's... "Car" has side view mirrors that look like bolts, and a really raised roof that has a stitch decal way near the very top of the car's windshield.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob's car is fully OEM without any modifications.
- Enforced: The work is an adaptation of a novel where Bob had an old Corvette as a Hero's Classic Car, but the production team couldn't find a genuine Corvette of the specified model year, so the props department built a Franken-Corvette that looked close enough and the writers wrote it in.
- Lampshaded: "How in the hell did you even get an engine from a Shelby Mustang in there, Bob?" Bob simply replies, "Talent."
- Invoked: Bob specifically set out to build the weirdest vehicle he could because he thought it would be a good challenge.
- Exploited: Bob enters his Franken-Corvette in a contest for "Weirdest Car" and wins.
- Defied: Bob gets the idea to rebuild his Corvette with a Mustang engine. Alice asks if she can have some of what he's been smoking, and Bob decides it's a dumb idea.
- Discussed: "So, I couldn't find the carburetors I needed for the 'vette at a cheap enough price, but it turns out the ones from this other GM vehicle are close enough I was able to kitbash them in."
- Conversed: "Putting a Mustang engine in a Corvette has gotta be the biggest piece of automotive heresy I've ever seen on TV."
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