RE: YKYWT... Northern Kit Cars Hornet
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SWoll said:
Love the high quality cinematic references, pretty much tell's you all you need to know TBH. I assume it was used as at the time as the shape of it was "WOW", but it was very cheap to buy and replace if crashed.
It's an old car, they're old films but yeah of course it was cheap and outlandish. Same thing with Hardcastle and McCormick and their VW Montage - even Sean Connery The Rock film used F355 fiero based replicas for many scenes. SWoll said:
The shape itself is not all bad, but is in reality just a load of idea's pinched from other famous cars of the period in an attempt to illicit the reaction "How does Ken from the Post office afford that Ferrari", and hope no-one notices the Q plate and 4cyl drone in the process.
Oh dear the blinkers didn't even move did they? Yes of course, everything designed around then was completely original and didn't borrow anything from anyone else 
I mean the "wow" factor lifting canopy they stole from....er.....no Lambos scissor doors were later weren't they. If it owes anything to anyone it would be Dennis Adam's Probe 2001 (never heard of it you say?). Interestingly you're only looking at this from the mass produced angle. BTW Why would it have a Q plate? It retains donor V5 and even in these days of IVA it wouldn't need one cos the floorpan is untouched - a one donor solution (which is exactly where our kitcar industry is heading back to)Don't worry, I get it, you think it's s
te - especially because of the Beetle base and pretentions toward affordability.Finally I am outraged that you insinuate that builders may attempt to pass their cars of as something else!
smash said:
Oh dear the blinkers didn't even move did they? Yes of course, everything designed around then was completely original and didn't borrow anything from anyone else I mean the "wow" factor lifting canopy they stole from....er.....no Lambos scissor doors were later weren't they.
Whilst I appreciate that the styling of many cars is influenced by other manufacturers the shape of the Nova strikes me as being just an amalgamation of other peoples ideas with no originality at all, other than the faintly ridiculous "Canopy" (which I must say I actually am quite fond of I mean the "wow" factor lifting canopy they stole from....er.....no Lambos scissor doors were later weren't they.
).I don't know what you mean about owners trying to pass them off as other cars though, although thats a lovely looking Miura. Is it an SV?
Are we now talking about le mans in the Nova, or le mans in the st heap in the OP?
A couple of years ago there was a fleet of Reliant Robins painted (superbly) in JPS, Gulf and (i think) Silk Cut livery.
They got a great reception- something crap with money spent for the laugh.
The one in the OP? Not a single feature that makes it look anything other than a poorly executed, poorly trimmed ste box.
t heap in the OP?A couple of years ago there was a fleet of Reliant Robins painted (superbly) in JPS, Gulf and (i think) Silk Cut livery.
They got a great reception- something crap with money spent for the laugh.
The one in the OP? Not a single feature that makes it look anything other than a poorly executed, poorly trimmed s
te box.
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