Maniacs Garage is an automotive lifestyle brand. It is the brainchild of John, who has a long history in the custom car scene. His projects go way back to the Mini Truckin' days of the 90's, the Import Tuner scene of the early 2000's and all kinds of other cool rides in between.

The idea for Maniacs Garage started with our Instagram page in 2005. As the page grew to over 300K followers we realized that it was time to build our own project car. Through a series of circumstances we ended up with a 1949 Ford Shoebox that we body swapped to a BMW E92 335i. It took several guys and one girl, nearly 2 years of weekends to complete the project. The car was displayed at the 2021 SEMA Show representing our main sponsor, Hostile Wheels and feature additional product partners such as: Toyo Tires, Garrett Motion, Doc Race, Boxo USA, Status Racing, Axia Alloys, Autopower Industries, Gorilla Splitters, No 5 Specialty Coatings, Optima Batteries and many more!

We call this project Born49ain (Born Again) because the old Ford has been completely Re-Born as a new BMW!

However, born again has another meaning for us.
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