Kit Car Credibility Suicide
Discussion
PH'ers, please help!
A mate at work is thinking about buying a Mk1 MX5. Good Call, you say. Problem is, the MX5 is not enough... He's considering turning it into this:
This is so wrong on so many levels. Things deteriorated further at work when one of the other lads also decided it was 'cool' (neither of them are 13 years-old BTW...).
Am I being a 'car snob'? I don't think the kit is designed as a 'comedy Aston Parody', or is it?
A Mk1 MX5 on its own is fine. It's enough. Doing this to it is the equivalent of taking a Casio G-Shock watch and spending twice the purchase cost adding the letters 'IWC' to the face.
Taste? Where?
A mate at work is thinking about buying a Mk1 MX5. Good Call, you say. Problem is, the MX5 is not enough... He's considering turning it into this:
This is so wrong on so many levels. Things deteriorated further at work when one of the other lads also decided it was 'cool' (neither of them are 13 years-old BTW...).
Am I being a 'car snob'? I don't think the kit is designed as a 'comedy Aston Parody', or is it?
A Mk1 MX5 on its own is fine. It's enough. Doing this to it is the equivalent of taking a Casio G-Shock watch and spending twice the purchase cost adding the letters 'IWC' to the face.
Taste? Where?
- feck it, tell him to go right ahead.
tish. That same freedom means that the rest of us are also free to take the rip, and rightly so.
Southpaw
He's considering that one as well, Retroforza I reckon the manufacturer is called. Makes the front look vaguely reminiscent of a 250 GT California. Actually looks quite good as long as the builder treats it as a 'restyle' and doesn't go the whole hog by adding Cromodora wheels and prancing horse badges.
I'll let him read these replies tomorrow and hopefully his decision will be suitably 'influenced'. He's a decent guy; I couldn't bear to see him rock-up at work in Mini-Me's Vanquish pedal car with the lusty 1.6l 4-pot throb under the bonnet while glancing at his fake 007 Omega Seamaster.
He's considering that one as well, Retroforza I reckon the manufacturer is called. Makes the front look vaguely reminiscent of a 250 GT California. Actually looks quite good as long as the builder treats it as a 'restyle' and doesn't go the whole hog by adding Cromodora wheels and prancing horse badges.
I'll let him read these replies tomorrow and hopefully his decision will be suitably 'influenced'. He's a decent guy; I couldn't bear to see him rock-up at work in Mini-Me's Vanquish pedal car with the lusty 1.6l 4-pot throb under the bonnet while glancing at his fake 007 Omega Seamaster.
That is hideous, and there isn't even a chance you could mistake it for a real aston. I'm not a fan of replicas like that anyway, but I can at least stomach some of the mr2/fezza reps etc as they don't look 'too' bad; that on the other hand is terrible! all the proportions are miles out and it has none of the lines of a real aston!
Gez
Gez
Southpaw
Made the same comment to matey at work today. The kits he is looking at are something like £2k+, fitting is £1.5k with the cost of painting on top. Factor in at least £2k+ for a half-reasonable MX5 and he's looking at £7-8k+.
Loads of 'real' cars I'd rather have with that amount. I suggested a bike-engined Westie or similar but I think he needs to fit shopping in somewhere, plus I don't think his girlfriend is too conducive to wearing a full-face helmet when driving to an evening out.
Made the same comment to matey at work today. The kits he is looking at are something like £2k+, fitting is £1.5k with the cost of painting on top. Factor in at least £2k+ for a half-reasonable MX5 and he's looking at £7-8k+.
Loads of 'real' cars I'd rather have with that amount. I suggested a bike-engined Westie or similar but I think he needs to fit shopping in somewhere, plus I don't think his girlfriend is too conducive to wearing a full-face helmet when driving to an evening out.
130R said:
All replica kits are the spawn of Satan, there are no good ones.
Bollox!http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/193911.htm
Wish i had the cash!!!
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