Badly modified cars thread Mk3

Badly modified cars thread Mk3

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uk66fastback

16,532 posts

271 months

Wednesday 28th September 2022
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So why is it badly modified? Is the welding bad and someone has painted it with rattle cans? Or is it the front Audi-style grille?


HM-2

12,467 posts

169 months

Wednesday 28th September 2022
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Well it looks horrifically bodged and is downright aesthetically painful.

E63eeeeee...

3,840 posts

49 months

Wednesday 28th September 2022
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uk66fastback said:
So why is it badly modified? Is the welding bad and someone has painted it with rattle cans? Or is it the front Audi-style grille?
The bottom edges of the rear doors are held together by rivets.

Do we have to have this argument about everything that gets posted on here? This used to just be a gentle thread where we'd post funny-looking cars and either take the piss out of them or defend them. Over-literal policing based on the thread title is a bit tedious.

DodgyGeezer

40,421 posts

190 months

Wednesday 28th September 2022
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E63eeeeee... said:
Do we have to have this argument about everything that gets posted on here? This used to just be a gentle thread where we'd post funny-looking cars and either take the piss out of them or defend them. Over-literal policing based on the thread title is a bit tedious.
could be worse - it could be a bunch of sad-sacks arguing that a car isn't a sleeper because: the rear tyres are .01% wider than standard; because it's been debadged; because it's got a different paint scheme; because they only used the 9J17 rims for 15 minutes on 24th Dec 1988....

james6546

983 posts

51 months

Wednesday 28th September 2022
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E63eeeeee... said:
The bottom edges of the rear doors are held together by rivets.

Do we have to have this argument about everything that gets posted on here? This used to just be a gentle thread where we'd post funny-looking cars and either take the piss out of them or defend them. Over-literal policing based on the thread title is a bit tedious.
But...but...is it badly modified if the owner likes it?!

It's horrific in every conceivable way.

Although to their credit at least they put a Q plate on it rather than leaving it as an audi a4.

SLK55AMG

4,318 posts

190 months

Thursday 29th September 2022
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james6546 said:
E63eeeeee... said:
The bottom edges of the rear doors are held together by rivets.

Do we have to have this argument about everything that gets posted on here? This used to just be a gentle thread where we'd post funny-looking cars and either take the piss out of them or defend them. Over-literal policing based on the thread title is a bit tedious.
But...but...is it badly modified if the owner likes it?!

It's horrific in every conceivable way.

Although to their credit at least they put a Q plate on it rather than leaving it as an audi a4.
He should look at the build by Lexspace if he wants to see how it’s done. I’d add a link to it if I could. That looks fantastic and has taken the guy years.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Edited by SLK55AMG on Thursday 29th September 14:03

uk66fastback

16,532 posts

271 months

Thursday 29th September 2022
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Was looking on a phone - didn’t spot the riveted doors - yes it is shocking!

Digby

8,237 posts

246 months

Friday 30th September 2022
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E63eeeeee... said:
Matt Cup said:
thegreenhell said:
It's not really a cage. It appears to be a custom tube chassis with half a van body on top, and I guess Audi mechanicals.
Yep it has an a4 dashboard so I’d suspect it’s the entire chassis.
Short front overhang for an Audi
Audi Quattro 1.9tdi running 165bhp. Custom built for ski trips apparently. Just seen the extensive for sale post.

Matt Cup

3,157 posts

104 months

Friday 30th September 2022
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Digby said:
E63eeeeee... said:
Matt Cup said:
thegreenhell said:
It's not really a cage. It appears to be a custom tube chassis with half a van body on top, and I guess Audi mechanicals.
Yep it has an a4 dashboard so I’d suspect it’s the entire chassis.
Short front overhang for an Audi
Audi Quattro 1.9tdi running 165bhp. Custom built for ski trips apparently. Just seen the extensive for sale post.
Link?

Gunk

3,302 posts

159 months

Friday 30th September 2022
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uk66fastback said:
So why is it badly modified? Is the welding bad and someone has painted it with rattle cans? Or is it the front Audi-style grille?
Would you be happy driving it?

Insert Coin

1,965 posts

43 months

Friday 30th September 2022
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Matt Cup said:
Pinched from another forum I’m on.

What sort of zero taste idiot would try and Barry up a van? rolleyes




james6546

983 posts

51 months

Saturday 1st October 2022
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Saw this last night in Derby, sorry for the bad pic, I was trying to be descreet


Swampy1982

3,305 posts

111 months

Saturday 1st October 2022
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Holy moly.

T6 vanman

3,066 posts

99 months

Saturday 1st October 2022
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Insert Coin said:
What sort of zero taste idiot would try and Barry up a van? rolleyes


DodgyGeezer

40,421 posts

190 months

Saturday 1st October 2022
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Ryyy

1,479 posts

35 months

Saturday 1st October 2022
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That van is easily one of the worse things I've seen.

What does "barry up" mean?

SLK55AMG

4,318 posts

190 months

Saturday 1st October 2022
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Ryyy said:
That van is easily one of the worse things I've seen.

What does "barry up" mean?
Barrying is chavving a car to death. There was a website called Barry Boys showing the state of them

http://www.barryboys.co.uk/

Insert Coin

1,965 posts

43 months

Saturday 1st October 2022
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T6 vanman said:
wink

RenPug

630 posts

168 months

Saturday 1st October 2022
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Nowhere near as bad as most of the stuff in here, but still, why?










nikaiyo2

4,716 posts

195 months

Saturday 1st October 2022
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FatboyKim said:
I see your Buddhist hearse, and raise you this Buddhist hearse.

Their other stock is certainly eclectic...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/353485902432?hash=item5...





I can’t help but look at that and think further modding that into a pick-up would be pretty cool.