vicsmith Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 I have just visted Chrysler`s website, and was bitterly disappointed to find that there is no "build your own virtual car" option on there. My plan was to attempt to build a P/T Cruiser "base" - in white, black bumpers, grey plastic grille, steel wheels with no hubcaps, and then just leave every single option box unchecked, which would hopefully result in blanking plates all over the interior, some sort of 3-speed manual gearbox and a 1300cc OHV engine.I would then order the vehicle for real, and never turn up to collect or pay for it, content to bask in the knowledge that such a dowdy, unsaleable but strangely pleasing example of a P/T cruiser exists, and will be languishing on a chrysler forecourt for some time to come.
Guest Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 Sadly this is the closest thing I can find: Grey plastic bumpers and steels - for the discerning customer who really wants a PT Cruiser on finance.
gtd2000 Posted June 17, 2008 Posted June 17, 2008 My plan was to attempt to build a P/T Cruiser "base" - in white, black bumpers, grey plastic grille, steel wheels with no hubcaps, and then just leave every single option box unchecked, which would hopefully result in blanking plates all over the interior, some sort of 3-speed manual gearbox and a 1300cc OHV engine.As far as I'm aware Mitsubishi don't currently produce an OHV engine?
Ratdat Posted June 17, 2008 Posted June 17, 2008 I walked through the PT Cruiser area at Harewood. It was quite unnerving. When you see one or two tat covered 50's style rock'n'roll Cruisers you can laugh it off but when there's dozens of them it's no longer acceptable as humorously ironic and become faintly disturbing.
reallyloud Posted June 17, 2008 Posted June 17, 2008 The best thing about that chrome laden bellend mobile was the ice cream type horn. Perfect for rounding up kids.
Mr_Bo11ox Posted June 17, 2008 Posted June 17, 2008 Gah! What a horrific POS. My favourite bit is the two chrome lines around the 'nostrils' on the bonnet.This guys offspring must be forever getting kicked in if he comes to the fuggin school to pick them up in that. I bet the other kids love flicking bits of chewed up tin foil at it, and seeing if the guy notices the extra 'bling'. Actually, I wonder if he has kids.
Jazzy Jeff Posted June 17, 2008 Posted June 17, 2008 Clearly he hasn't got any kids, that "thing" is possibly the most affective woman repellant known to man.
Cavcraft Posted June 17, 2008 Posted June 17, 2008 I walked through the PT Cruiser area at Harewood. It was quite unnerving. When you see one or two tat covered 50's style rock'n'roll Cruisers you can laugh it off but when there's dozens of them it's no longer acceptable as humorously ironic and become faintly disturbing. The bastard lovechild of a seventies gypsy caravan and an old American train? That monstrosity takes hideous to a whole new level. Hats off to that bloke and his missus in half an Austin Chummy trying to ram him, though note they can't even stand to look at it whilst doing so.
gtd2000 Posted June 18, 2008 Posted June 18, 2008 There used to be a bike magazine that I read, years back, which had a section called, "I need my tools taken away" and displayed photos of extremely bad taste bikes....This, however takes the biscuit!
Ross_K Posted June 18, 2008 Posted June 18, 2008 Just when I thought the PT Cruiser was the last word in shite, I spotted something worse this morning. Sadly I didn't whip my phone out in time as I was rendered immobile by the sight of one of these gimp-wagons: Right-hand drive too... Probably the only one they ever sold in that format. Hopefully.
r.welfare Posted June 18, 2008 Posted June 18, 2008 No, I've seen a couple of PT Cruiser convertibles as well. Atrocious.The chrome-covered one above just goes to prove that money can't buy taste. There's a similarly chrome-laden Mitsubishi Galant (G-reg) round these parts, God knows why. We're talking chrome door handles, arches (gah!), windscreen wiper arms, mirrors, the lot. You can obviously buy this stick-on plastic chrome stripping by the metre - my 406 had a load of it slapped round the rear lights and numberplate. Utter crud.
Mr_Bo11ox Posted June 18, 2008 Posted June 18, 2008 a handful of folk just have this defect where they just can't stop fiddling dont they. The compulsion to fiddle vastly outweighs the will to stop and take stock of what the fiddling is actually achieveing. I bet 'Glesh' sees a plain, dull-ass PT cruiser when he looks out onto his driveway, and only clocks the empty spaces he has left on the car that could still accept more cheap sparkly toss. The owner of this Ka, one of my all time favourites off barryboys, is clearly another acute sufferer. http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=23284&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 "Mmm, Charlie Babbett, two n' a half"
Mr_Bo11ox Posted June 18, 2008 Posted June 18, 2008 We're all horrified, but i bet we'd choose the Ka every time over GLESH's tin of donkey jizz, I know i would.
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted June 18, 2008 Author Posted June 18, 2008 Jayzus!!I'm wondering though if the Ka was done as a joke. The Part Time Crooser was obviously done for real with no sense of irony. Or just no sense.An '04 Ka has a value though and it now needs a £1500 paint job to rescue it.
vicsmith Posted June 18, 2008 Posted June 18, 2008 Bollox is right, it is indeed an affliction, I know a guy who does it to just about everything, fortunately he is a home trader so he never has anything long enough for it to suffer more than a moderate sprinkling that could easily be remedied with a bottle of turps and an hour or two`s dicking about.I sometimes send cars up to him for a buff (he`s got a really good buffer, I`ve got a non-existant buffer) and every now and then a Fiesta or something will come back with really weird stripes all over it, he can`t help it.His party piece is the "badge bar" he sometimes applies, which is in fact a towel rail.
Mr Lobster Posted June 18, 2008 Posted June 18, 2008 His party piece is the "badge bar" he sometimes applies, which is in fact a towel rail.But is it heated?
Mash Posted June 19, 2008 Posted June 19, 2008 It's funny how everyone who went to Harewood took a photo of the Glesh wagon..... Here's mine: I shudder to think what the inside of their house is like. If it isn't mock-Americana then it'll be overpowering wallpaper, chintzy furniture, and Sunday market ornaments. Each to their own I know but why can they not see this is WRONG WRONG WRONG? The PT self-affirmation mantra: "They're laughing WITH me, they're laughing WITH me"
pompei Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 After a really SHIT morning, that Ka has made my day. "Urban Icon" indeed. One i too many.I guess the first aid kit inside probably contains plenty anti-emetics.
pompei Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 This blinging up is a shocking epidemic, but I can remember a good few years ago seeing a week's wages spent in the old "accessory shop" and slapped on the Anglia or Cortina ...Things I recall are additional circular reflectors, usually with chrome bezels, stuck on the back and the rear quarters, badge bars with badges, jazzy mudflaps (sometimes with reflectors), headlight "eyelids", three winged spinners attached to the hubcaps, sun visors with chrome clips, twin chrome aerials on the rear wings, chrome tail pipe trims and rubber door stops, often with reflectors. Paradoxically, I used to like the rolls of black and white chequered sticky tape you got from the filling station so I could make my push bike go faster I also used to love it when people painted the tyre manufacturer's name in white. Even looks ridiculous when it's General Grabber.
MrRegieRitmo Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 Basically if it's not a rear window louvre, fake finger clips, travel sickness strips, fade out sun strips, go faster rear window stickers or early 90s Comic Relief addenda like red car noses, anything else is just not cricket!
Volksy Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 When living in Alsager near stoke there was a guy who had a couple of Mk2 grandads with i think every possible bit of tat he could get his mits on from Halfords and the like.. He was a bit of a beardy type, and i bet there still on the road now!Near Alsager train station if anyone in the locality is passing through..
MrRegieRitmo Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 Reminds me of the Granny seen here.....http://autoshite.commlm/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2926&start=0
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted June 20, 2008 Author Posted June 20, 2008 I wonder if the G1ESH PTC rear window is real, or vinyl graphics?What's the betting they have Stars and Stripes duvet covers?
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