The Modified, horrors and honeys, opinions and pics please

[sierraman]

Always wondered with a lot of those old VW campers with the mahoosive wheels and lowered to half inch off the ground, where the fuck can you go with it? It’d bottom  out within about 5 minutes? 

[chaseracer]

Air ride...

[bunglebus]

  On 28/05/2020 at 00:25, vulgalour said:

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I like that bus other than the sill extensions.

[outlaw118]

  On 28/05/2020 at 02:05, Pieman said:

Never seen one of those based on a BX before

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Me neither, I've deffo seen a CX one, will attempt to find photo.

[davocano]

Another VW from the fevered* imagination of Andy Saunders.

[davocano]

Looks a bit like a Syncro but was in fact home-brewed by someone in that there Wales.

[bunglebus]

  On 28/05/2020 at 18:36, davocano said:

Another VW from the fevered* imagination of Andy Saunders.

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I watched that being built over 3 days at Bug Jam 2008, with the intention of getting a world record for lowest VW camper. Then it got left outside until it showed up at the VolksWorld show a couple of years ago looking like that ^

[Spottedlaurel]

How the hipsters did things in 1988:

VW and Saab choptops and scallops (1988) by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

A lot going on with this Zephyr captured by John Powell sometime in the late '70s I'd imagine:

1962-66 Ford Zephyr Mk3, 5681WF (1970s?) by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

[Jerzy Woking]

For sale in Spain at €4,000

[dc2100k]

How the Aussies do 6 wheelers.

[dc2100k]

  On 29/05/2020 at 06:46, Spottedlaurel said:

 

 

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That SAAB 95 looks awesome.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Citroën never produced a CX hatchback but two Swiss coachbuilding firms, Caruna and Beutler, did. For a price. Because Switzerland. 

[bunglebus]

The Saab and Squareback are both damn cool in my book. 

[cobblers]

  On 28/05/2020 at 07:34, sierraman said:

Always wondered with a lot of those old VW campers with the mahoosive wheels and lowered to half inch off the ground, where the fuck can you go with it? It’d bottom  out within about 5 minutes? 

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Some have air suspension, but most of them from over the years just have adjusters in the beams and dropped spindles. They're basically dangerously awful to drive, with the steering box and beam steadily smashing themselves to pieces as they drive down the road. I've been in a few and you simply have to turn off the part of your brain that is in charge of mechanical sympathy. They're absolutely fucking horrible and even a slight crown on the road surface will mean you're dragging bits of the underbody along the road.

 

This is coming from someone who spent most of my 20s pootling about in stupidly low water cooled VWs (I used to carry planks of wood in the boot so I could get over speedbumps), the air cooled ones running as low as this are really on another level of misery, way beyond anything us mere mortals can imagine.

[sierraman]

  On 29/05/2020 at 11:38, cobblers said:

Some have air suspension, but most of them from over the years just have adjusters in the beams and dropped spindles. They're basically dangerously awful to drive, with the steering box and beam steadily smashing themselves to pieces as they drive down the road. I've been in a few and you simply have to turn off the part of your brain that is in charge of mechanical sympathy. They're absolutely fucking horrible and even a slight crown on the road surface will mean you're dragging bits of the underbody along the road.

 

This is coming from someone who spent most of my 20s pootling about in stupidly low water cooled VWs (I used to carry planks of wood in the boot so I could get over speedbumps), the air cooled ones running as low as this are really on another level of misery, way beyond anything us mere mortals can imagine.

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Where would you sit with insurance if the pigeon shit welding failed and the suspension collapsed at 50mph? 

[Tamworthbay]

I saw one get stuck on a speed bump (the plastic/ rubber triangle type) at the Malvern show a few years ago. I thought it was very funny but from the way the guy dealt with it, it obviously wan’t the first time it had happened and he didn’t seem at all bothered. I don’t get it personally, why would you chose to make a vehicle worse? But each to their own and there are a lot like that now so people must like the look.

[cobblers]

Yeah those rubber ramps were the worst - My mk2 GTI would get stuck on them completely, but I had practised the routine pretty well and with my two bits of wood I could be over them in 30 seconds. Nowadays I look back and wonder why I did it to myself.

[jon.k]

In one of the vw mags someone said about the fact they had to take their t5 work van on detours to avoid road obstacles because it was so low; “it’s a way of life”. 

[Crusty Sills]

  On 19/05/2020 at 18:29, davocano said:

Started life as a T3.

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As shit as it is, I kind of like it. Sort of Jadatoys style. 

But then again I've never professed to be a man of taste!!! ?

[davocano]

I'm reliably informed that this is a replica of the T5 Crew Cab 4Motion project.

[Matty]

  On 28/05/2020 at 18:36, davocano said:

Another VW from the fevered* imagination of Andy Saunders.

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Good. Another one dead ???

[davocano]

A genuine fire appliance.

 

[davocano]

Not a genuine horse appliance.

[Stinkwheel]

  On 29/05/2020 at 16:34, davocano said:

Not a genuine horse appliance.

I know exactly where this is sitting right now. I pass by it daily currently as it’s in the same site my storage/workshop is.

[Dannyk]

[bunglebus]

  On 19/05/2020 at 18:29, davocano said:

Started life as a T3.

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  On 29/05/2020 at 14:20, Crusty Sills said:

As shit as it is, I kind of like it. Sort of Jadatoys style. 

But then again I've never professed to be a man of taste!!! ?

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Yeah, that one. If you want to see crazy shit, go to a VW show

 

DSC_0200_zpssegxainp by RS, on Flickr

[DoctorRetro]

Not sure if I've shared this recently? 

[bunglebus]

  On 29/05/2020 at 21:43, Dannyk said:

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The "Rustin"

 

DSC_0217_zpshf9g4don by RS, on Flickr

DSC_0216_zps34ira5fw by RS, on Flickr

Volksworld 2019 294 by RS, on Flickr

[bunglebus]

I'll just leave this here

 

Volksworld28 by RS, on Flickr

[sierraman]

  On 29/05/2020 at 21:49, bunglebus said:

 

The "Rustin"

 

DSC_0217_zpshf9g4don by RS, on Flickr

DSC_0216_zps34ira5fw by RS, on Flickr

Volksworld 2019 294 by RS, on Flickr

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It’s just scrap.