Badly modified cars thread

[Steffan]

ClassicMotorNut said:

Typical Delorean nonsense and undriveable with that low spoiler on normal roads. Why make a car unusable on roads? All the DeloreansI have seen have restored exhibited just that trait in the restorations. Some people have very odd motivation in car "restoration". I would expect driving ability on the road to be important to ownership. Apparently not. Appearances seem to be the only concern with some owners.

[Isimmo]

Steffan said:

ClassicMotorNut said:

Typical Delorean nonsense and undriveable with that low spoiler on normal roads. Why make a car unusable on roads? All the DeloreansI have seen have restored exhibited just that trait in the restorations. Some people have very odd motivation in car "restoration". I would expect driving ability on the road to be important to ownership. Apparently not. Appearances seem to be the only concern with some owners.

I like the sign behind it.... Very apt.

[HereBeMonsters]

Steffan said:

ClassicMotorNut said:

Typical Delorean nonsense and undriveable with that low spoiler on normal roads. Why make a car unusable on roads? All the DeloreansI have seen have restored exhibited just that trait in the restorations. Some people have very odd motivation in car "restoration". I would expect driving ability on the road to be important to ownership. Apparently not. Appearances seem to be the only concern with some owners.

By the angle of the wheels, I would suggest that is on hydraulic suspension.

[e21Mark]

Illegally parked in Richmond earlier today.

[LukeDM]

ClassicMotorNut said:

Chris Stott said:

I think both of these look very nice, I guess I don't belong in this thread!

[Gdgd]

LukeDM said:

I think both of these look very nice, I guess I don't belong in this thread!

dear god no...

[RedWhiteMonkey]

You know how the answer to many "What car" questions on here is MX5, well I give you this:







http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C505931

[Strawman]

BigBo said:

Chris Stott said:

There was a thread on that car in the classics section earlier this year.

Personally, I think whoever did that to an e-type should be taken outside and shot in the back of the head, but some people seemed to think there was little wrong with it. Apparently it has XKR running gear.

Yarp! If it still looked like a e-type maybe, but why alter a piece of motoring history? the guy that's responsible should be fed to a Jaguar(the ones with teeth)

Not really, he took a sheddy V12 2+2 coupe, which is the worst looking and least valuable version of the E type, and was a donor car anyway for his main business (restoring E types) and made a roadster out of it. If he hadn't done that the remains of the car would have been scrapped. Don't see how that is a crime and it's not like he's forcing anyone else to drive it.

[iva cosworth]

e21Mark said:

Illegally parked in Richmond earlier today.

M4 DBM number plate already taken presumably.

MAAD....

[BigBo]

Strawman said:

Not really, he took a sheddy V12 2+2 coupe, which is the worst looking and least valuable version of the E type, and was a donor car anyway for his main business (restoring E types) and made a roadster out of it. If he hadn't done that the remains of the car would have been scrapped. Don't see how that is a crime and it's not like he's forcing anyone else to drive it.

After reading his comments I can see why/how he done it, Fair play and all but the wheels and grill look terrible, also don't like how they changed the profile of the wings to accommodate the wheels, Could of tried to keep it looking like a e-type or improve how it looks then I'd like it, Atleast it can go off road with the height of it, It's a e-type that looks Barry'ed to me

[Westy Pre-Lit]

Steffan said:

ClassicMotorNut said:

............ nonsense and undriveable with that low spoiler on normal roads. Why make a car unusable on roads?

Woahhhhh just had another one of them Deja vu moments.

[JimmyTheHand]

Steffan said:

Why make a car unusable on roads?

Saw a lowered Fiesta the other night - it was so low that it actually had something hitting the road as it drove along - exhaust or fuel tank I think

[xRIEx]

Westy Pre-Lit said:

Steffan said:

ClassicMotorNut said:

............ nonsense and undriveable with that low spoiler on normal roads. Why make a car unusable on roads?

Woahhhhh just had another one of them Deja vu moments.

Not deja vu, it's just interference from the flux capacitor.

[Liquid Knight]

xRIEx said:

Westy Pre-Lit said:

Steffan said:

ClassicMotorNut said:

............ nonsense and undriveable with that low spoiler on normal roads. Why make a car unusable on roads?

Woahhhhh just had another one of them Deja vu moments.

Not deja vu, it's just interference from the flux capacitor.

They changed something on the Matrix?


Oh wrong film.

[carpetsoiler]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

I don't think it's that bad. But then again... this is my car...

[iva cosworth]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

No,I was on foot near work in Croydon.

[DUMBO100]

In Alfa Orange

[Neith]

Evil.soup said:

What the hell is wrong with the S15 front, they look wonderful as they are?

I read (on Speedhunters I think) that the guy who owns it crashed it while drifting (as is the fate of so many S-body Nissans). He did quite a lot of damage to the front end so decided that naturally grafting a E46 front end was the best result. It's professionally done but it's nasty, the S15 is such a nice looking car as intended. What's strange is he probably spent more money altering the bodywork to take the E46 front than he would have done getting a new S15 front end, or even switching to a Vertex kit etc.

Such a shame. Not sure what I find worse, the E46 front or the disgusting two-tone paint job.

[richtea78]

DUMBO100 said:

In Alfa Orange

Apart from the colour and the wheels that's standard I think?

[miatajen]

RedWhiteMonkey said:

You know how the answer to many "What car" questions on here is MX5, well I give you this:







http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C505931

This was on ebay a few months back, poor car!

Edited by jenmx5 on Sunday 1st June 23:59