Badly modified cars thread

[Geekman]

holy fking st
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-730-730D-E65-E66-F01...

[FRA53R]

PanzerCommander said:

Exactly the same as it would if you drove a vehicle with a locked diff!

The other one with a welded crown gear though

I quoted the wrong pic I meant the one with the welded crown wheel.

[irocfan]

[Big Fat Fatty]

Jam Spavlin said:

The Game said:

WTF is that!

is it a Koenig special?

It's bloody hideous whatever it is.

[uk89camaro]

Probably not original, but spotted this in town yesterday.

[Glassman]

Geekman said:

holy fking st
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-730-730D-E65-E66-F01...

"The car is for sale elsewhere so I reserve the right to remove the advert."

Can he do that?

Or does it translate as 'if the auction ends on a low ball' ?>?

[P Nuts]

Glassman said:

Geekman said:

holy fking st
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-730-730D-E65-E66-F01...

"The car is for sale elsewhere so I reserve the right to remove the advert."

Can he do that?

Or does it translate as 'if the auction ends on a low ball' ?>?

thats normally what it translates too, i listed an ad once and wrote something similar and Ebay suggested I changed it as it puts buyers off.

[Glassman]

P Nuts said:

thats normally what it translates too, i listed an ad once and wrote something similar and Ebay suggested I changed it as it puts buyers off.

But what "right" is he 'reserving' ??

[Pique]

uk89camaro said:

Probably not original, but spotted this in town yesterday.

Should have used another smart badge - ars and rotate the m through 90º

[Liquid Knight]

No doubt it will be.

[Or888t]

Found myself on the strange side of youtube...
And i think i've found the worst thing ever put on this thread!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfQ315JoiF0&NR...

[StealthSteve]

Pique said:

uk89camaro said:

Probably not original, but spotted this in town yesterday.

Should have used another smart badge - ars and rotate the m through 90º

That's a genius idea, wouldn't have occurred to me..

[Beartato]

Liquid Knight said:

No doubt it will be.

No doubt it will be what? What the fk are you on about? Unless that's Berny and Leepu the car fker-uppers supreme in the background in which case that thing has a very short future as a good looking car in front of it.

[AlfaDogvan]

http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

not the worst.

ADV

[AlfaDogvan]

Or888t said:

Found myself on the strange side of youtube...
And i think i've found the worst thing ever put on this thread!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfQ315JoiF0&NR...

what engines in that? looks like a trabants 2 stroke? enough blue smoke to be.

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[5potTurbo]

Pique said:

uk89camaro said:

Probably not original, but spotted this in town yesterday.

Should have used another smart badge - ars and rotate the m through 90º

[Garlick]

Beartato said:

No doubt it will be what? What the fk are you on about? Unless that's Berny and Leepu the car fker-uppers supreme in the background in which case that thing has a very short future as a good looking car in front of it.

Calm down dear.

[Liquid Knight]

Beartato said:

Liquid Knight said:

No doubt it will be.

No doubt it will be what?

Badly modified. As the thread title suggests.

Thanks Garlick but I've got this.

Episode 1 E-Type, Cut and shut with a hideous sunroof, painted the wrong colour after a staged collision with an engine hoist needed three days of filler work so the rear corner looked a different colour to the rest of it.

Episode 2, Porsche 911, 70's car tarted up to looks like an 80's model, painted a very wrong colour and another classic ruined.

Episode 3, Rubber bumper MGB converted to Chrome bumper cosmetically whilst sat on the original spec' rubber bumper springs so it looked like a tractor. Factory webasco sunroof was filled (actually cut out of another car and welded in place) the rear rails were cut out of a less rusty car (even though they are only £65 each from the MGB Hive) and welded to to the floor without a jig while the crew were filming in Canada. So if the car goes in a straight line it needs an SVA. Painted the wrong colour to add value and fitted with second hand parts that would have been cheaper to buy new.

Episode 4, 68 Mustang convertible. An original and unique car with documentational proof and would have been worth restoring to original spec' but the 351cui engine was binned and replaced with a 302 because it would have taken more than a bit of vinegar to make it work. The 302 needed to be rebuilt anyway so it cost more than the original would have done anyway. In house fabricated panels with OPG (Original Parts Group) stickers on them. Actually fairly well put together with new subframe parts and inner bodywork. The outer bodywork were mostly the original panels apart from a damaged door that was replaced with a saloon one. Again the car was painted the wrong colour (complete with orange peel effect if you have HD) only this time with cheap tacky looking "Boss302" stickers that exaggerated the panel gaps and devalued the car further.

Episode 5, Tonight it's the 54/55 Cadillac. Given the programs track record I think it's a safe bet that it will be just as ruined as the rest of the cars featured so far.

Edited by Liquid Knight on Monday 22 October 12:44

[Liquid Knight]

If not I will happily stand corrected.

As the first photo' of the car it looks like it didn't need a lot of work anyway.

[Krikkit]

SystemParanoia said:

Krikkit said:

EDLT said:

Some others:

The others definitely belong, but this is standard practice on cheap drift cars rather than buying a fancy diff. Everyone's got to start somewhere.

errrrm, you dont weld the crown wheel though!!!!

LOL. Didn't even think about that, I just glanced past the picture. Woosh parrot for one please.