Badly modified cars thread

[Evil.soup]

scarble said:

oh come on!
those wheels are disgusting

They wouldnt be my first choice, very dub scene, but they do suit the car i guess. If it were my car it would be on a set of compomotive alloys or a set of OZ multispoke alloys as worn by the Lupo cup car, far more suitable.

[scarble]

Suit the car? Really?
Even in a nice normal colour they'd be marginal.

Mind you I've never been one for fancy wheel designs, horses for courses, up to a point.

[OllieC]

I really like BBS centre locks on racing cars, I really don't like fake centre locks on road cars.

[Evil.soup]

scarble said:

Suit the car? Really?
Even in a nice normal colour they'd be marginal.

Mind you I've never been one for fancy wheel designs, horses for courses, up to a point.

I just think it suits the scene the fella is going for, not my cup of tea and certainly not my scene but they look ok if thats your thing.

I have to admit to owning and modifying a Lupo about 15 years ago long before it was the Dub scene thing to do. It was at a sensible hight, had a custom built exhaust to match that of the cup car and replica cup car alloys. It was in yellow with fully colour coded bumpers rather than the black strip at the bottom and looked identical to the lupo cup car in gran turismo 3 i think it was, minus the stickers of course.
I got rather board of it very quickly though as it was too slow so i wasted a heap of money then sold it, lesson learned.

[Evil.soup]

scarble said:

Suit the car? Really?
Even in a nice normal colour they'd be marginal.

Mind you I've never been one for fancy wheel designs, horses for courses, up to a point.

I just think it suits the scene the fella is going for, not my cup of tea and certainly not my scene but they look ok if thats your thing.

I have to admit to owning and modifying a Lupo about 15 years ago long before it was the Dub scene thing to do. It was at a sensible hight, had a custom built exhaust to match that of the cup car and replica cup car alloys. It was in yellow with fully colour coded bumpers rather than the black strip at the bottom and looked identical to the lupo cup car in gran turismo 3 i think it was, minus the stickers of course.
I got rather board of it very quickly though as it was too slow so i wasted a heap of money then sold it, lesson learned.

[iva cosworth]

Roadru77er said:

Veeayt said:

Looks like a Lego brick car

Seem to remember that being a 70s kit car based on mini/1100/1300

These kit cars are Hustlers.

Designed by William Towns iirc.

[Steffan]

iva cosworth said:

Roadru77er said:

Veeayt said:

Looks like a Lego brick car

Seem to remember that being a 70s kit car based on mini/1100/1300

These kit cars are Hustlers.

Designed by William Towns iirc.

Correct: William Townes was quite a car designer but produced two designs which were very weak IMHO. Possibly three. The Reliant SS 1 was possibly the ugliest sports car I have seen and the Hustler was not a lot better. The Aston Martin Lagonda was another failure IMO ugly being a kind description. He did have some successes.

[neilbauer]

Steffan said:

iva cosworth said:

Roadru77er said:

Veeayt said:

Looks like a Lego brick car

Seem to remember that being a 70s kit car based on mini/1100/1300

These kit cars are Hustlers.

Designed by William Towns iirc.

Correct: William Townes was quite a car designer but produced two designs which were very weak IMHO. Possibly three. The Reliant SS 1 was possibly the ugliest sports car I have seen and the Hustler was not a lot better. The Aston Martin Lagonda was another failure IMO ugly being a kind description. He did have some successes.

The Hustler sounds like a 70's porn mag and the car looks like the pope mobile

[idiotgap]

DaveyBoyWonder said:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/vauxhall-vectra-modified...

I can see what he was getting at there - the alluring Redhill minicab look

[Max M4X WW]

DaveyBoyWonder said:

My usual trawl of eBay has turned up these beauties:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/golf-1-4-w12-replica-mod...

ebay ad said:

1.4 drives awsome with big 20" alloy wheels

I bet!

[gowmonster]

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

poor 106

[anonymous-user]

gowmonster said:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

poor 106

"Elderly Owned since 2003" ...really?!

[irocfan]

gowmonster said:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

poor 106

to be fair it doesn't look awful for one of those types... but I'm questioning 3k for a '98(?) 106

[Pixelpeep]

irocfan said:

gowmonster said:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

poor 106

to be fair it doesn't look awful for one of those types... but I'm questioning 3k for a '98(?) 106

and the 'multiplug' for the speakers, looks like an old 110v jobbie

half the price and it would be a good punt. throw a grand at it getting it back to original and you'd have a nice car. Maybe.

[31mph]

gowmonster said:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

poor 106

How much?!?!?!?!

[ambuletz]

There's one selling for £1000 more that's much worse.





http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2013...

[pinchmeimdreamin]

not the worst on here but I have had the pleasure of seeing this beast being developed

[LOW4LYFE]

OllieC said:

I really like BBS centre locks on racing cars, I really don't like fake centre locks on road cars.

What are you on about "fake centre locks"? Genuine RS' came in more than that fitment, and they all had the waffle cap cover to continue the lattice design to the hex centre cap of the wheel.

Fake centre locks

Edited by LOW4LYFE on Thursday 8th May 15:44

[Pixelpeep]

From another thread on here.

[aspirated]

Pixelpeep said:

From another thread on here.

Dear old Mr Gulzar


I disagree with you, this, albeit being distastefully modified, is not badly modified at all.