Badly modified cars thread
Discussion
Liquid Knight said:
Beartato said:
Liquid Knight said:
No doubt it will be.
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.
After the farce that was Chop Shop I would have thought they had been taken into the woods somewhere by the Discovery channel execs and left there, minus some limbs.
Those poor cars, anyone with half a brain could have done a better job restoring them.
k would people do that to their cars?
Liquid Knight said:
Beartato said:
Liquid Knight said:
No doubt it will be.
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
I actually enjoy his what car suggestions and think PH is a better place for him.
Glassman said:
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' ??P Nuts said:
to end the auction earley on the basis its his car and he has the right to decide how much it should sell for??
When I bid (if I bid) I commit to buy. Unless he comes out and says the car was destroyed in a fire, the offer + winning bid = binding. I fail to see where you can pull out a Get Out of Jail card if the auctioned value doesn't quite hit the seller's acceptable threshold.If it's advertised elsewhere, as already mentioned, a reserve or Buy it Now price covers that objection??
Not sure if it's been on here before, but another "classy" Saxo from a few years back that seems to have come out of hibernation 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-CITROEN-SAXO-VTR-VT...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-CITROEN-SAXO-VTR-VT...
AlexRS2782 said:
Not sure if it's been on here before, but another "classy" Saxo from a few years back that seems to have come out of hibernation
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-CITROEN-SAXO-VTR-VT...
What are door poppers? Does that mean push to open/close?http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-CITROEN-SAXO-VTR-VT...
carlove said:
Nice! I like the lights at the bottom!
carlove said:
eBay seller said:
Van does not stop when you turn the key off.
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