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The restomod recipe is simple: take an old car with a cult following, rework and reimagine, then sell it for a pretty penny to nostalgic enthusiasts. For the sentimental of you with cash to splash, the choices are plentiful too, from Porsches, through old Jag E-types and Land Rover Defenders, via a load of newly electrified offerings, up to the likes of rally specials and even an Aston rejigged by its original designer a couple of decades on. Now though, we might have the restomod to top all restomods… It’s the Eccentrica Diablo, a £ scissor-doored sculpture based on the wide and wild Lamborghini Diablo of the 1990s. The Diablo is perhaps the ultimate epitome of the Lamborghini brand, and the promise of a restomodded one that keeps all the original’s theatre while ironing out its, ahem, idiosyncrasies, was all we needed to hear to pack Top Gear’s Associate Editor, Jason Barlow, off to Italy to learn more… Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos:
