Let me get one thing out of the way: as you might have noticed by how many of our “OMG drool” posts are based on Fantasy Junction offerings, the Emeryville shop is like some adult Wonka factory filled with licentious delights you can’t afford and might be bad for your health. Thankfully, unlike any respectable crack dealer, they won’t give you the first hit free, because if they offered me something like a Crossle 12F Formula B car as a gateway drug I’d steal anything not bolted to the floor to work my way up to this Norwood P4-575.

Actually, looking at it more closely, “bolted to the floor” wouldn’t really be an impediment. Note that it isn’t some Fiberfab Valkyrie ripoff sporting a cheesy and insulting approximation of a worthwhile car and running an anemic VW four – the Norwood hails from some alternate universe where kit cars are as awesome as the originals, up is down, global warming heals the earth causing baby seals to happily bark, and car blogging geeks are worshiped as prophets (ha!). Let’s get the details out of the way – the 550HP Norwood packs an honest-to-goodness 550 HP Ferrari 4-cam V12 lifted out on an unspecified 365 variant (let’s hope it was a GT4 2+2!) bolted up to Porsche’s legendarily robust G50 transaxle. It’ll rip to 60 in a period-correct 4 seconds. It’s unfortunate that “550 HP!” and “0-60 in under 4 seconds!” don’t have the impact they should in a day when a STi can do that same trick by goosing the computer and giving the turbo plumbing a mild wedgie.

Luckily for this Norwood replica, it looks like the physical manifestation of the hottest sex that has ever existed in the universe, and it’s basically the closest you will get to a real Ferrari 330 P4 without assassinating every billionaire in the world. In fact, “kit” and “replica” aren’t really appropriate descriptors, because with only 3 real P4s extant, reality is terribly subjective. How real is real enough? When the $384,500 cost of your recreation is barely a down payment on the real thing, the build quality is probably better than the original, and it’s so impossibly hot your retinas will leave your body and get a stiff drink just to get the nervous shakes to stop.

Hop on over to Fantasy Junction and Norwood’s own site to read more about the P4-575. You will see wonderful, terrible things. We are not responsible if you go blind from teh awesome.