The Modified, horrors and honeys, opinions and pics please

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I wonder if the gold one was the one I used to have back in 1990. That had been sitting outside for years before it came to me, and it was still possible to get it going.

[bunglebus]

I didn't get any pics of the reg unfortunately 

[davocano]

Trollied! by Kevin Lane, on Flickr

[Austat]

Currently for sale on the Australian Farcebook marketplace, apparently built by an engineering teacher in the 80's (I presume from around then). Based on a Toyota Crown chassic, Holden 186 engine paired with a Celica 5 Speed manual:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/521552629221572/?ref=search&referral_code=marketplace_search&referral_story_type=post

[outlaw118]

11 minutes ago, Austat said:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/521552629221572/?ref=search&referral_code=marketplace_search&referral_story_type=post

Where do you start with that.....some people have too much time on their hands.....

[Amishtat]

This faded hero is sitting outside a local garage, I wonder how much metal is left under the fibreglass. 

[goosey]

On 6/5/2020 at 8:47 AM, davocano said:

Trollied! by Kevin Lane, on Flickr

The Merry Hill shopping Centre in Dudley have something similar based on a Volkswagen T4 Transporter. Il try and get a pic next time I’m there as I think it’s still in use. 

[Blake's Den]

I have posted this one on a different thread before. My old MR2 as it was when I sold it and what it looks like now. Actually for sale on ebay! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294163151354?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

 

[Bradders59]

Oh dear ! 🙄

[sierraman]

57 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

This faded hero is sitting outside a local garage, I wonder how much metal is left under the fibreglass. 

Hopefully someone will buy it and rip all that plastic shit off it and put it back to standard. 

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, Blake's Den said:

I have posted this one on a different thread before. My old MR2 as it was when I sold it and what it looks like now. Actually for sale on ebay! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294163151354?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

 

Who fixes all that tat to their cars? It looked nice before now  it just looks like a children’s fairground ride. It’s the sort of thing some old giffer would do, you just know they’ve got a ghastly bungalow with pansies outside and one of those massive gnomes you get in Asda. 

[Amishtat]

7 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Who fixes all that tat to their cars? It looked nice before now  it just looks like a children’s fairground ride. It’s the sort of thing some old giffer would do, you just know they’ve got a ghastly bungalow with pansies outside and one of those massive gnomes you get in Asda. 

Sort of like this but a bungalow.. 

[sierraman]

1 minute ago, Amishtat said:

Sort of like this but a bungalow.. 

Yeah, just a fucking mess. The sort of twat that would have had his initials in gold monogram on the rear quarter of a Rover 213 in the day. 

[Amishtat]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

Hopefully someone will buy it and rip all that plastic shit off it and put it back to standard. 

It's.. of its time, I suppose. Wouldn't drive it myself but there we are. There's another red Mk. 3 parked there too but partially stripped. I genuinely can't tell which one is the spares car. 

[Timewaster]

2 hours ago, Blake's Den said:

I have posted this one on a different thread before. My old MR2 as it was when I sold it and what it looks like now. Actually for sale on ebay! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294163151354?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

 

That looks a right bloody state. I don't hate the rear lights but the rest of it is awful.

 

But it just goes to show, when it is sold then you have no say in what happens to it.

It makes me chuckle when you see old boys on Bangers and Cash who say things like " I want it to go to a good home" and the look of horor when Derek says their old ambulance would make a cool camper or their van will end up as a coffee van at some snobby garden centre.

If you want a say in what happens then you have to either keep it forever or give it to a collection.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, Amishtat said:

This faded hero is sitting outside a local garage, I wonder how much metal is left under the fibreglass. 

Wob Special?

[sierraman]

Back in the day those bodykits were rarely done properly, it was usually to cover rotten panels. The cheap kits never fitted properly so required copious amounts of filler, like those big tubs of P38 you get from the factors. I would be reticent to tackle one because of what’s underneath. Some of the worst were where you could see the pop rivets or self tapping screws holding the thing on having gone rusty after it being driven round for months in primer. 

When you look on Rods and Sods some of the builds from back in the day looked immense but again underneath they were likely a real lash up. Still I can remember poring over the Fibresports kits for Mk3 Escorts in Max Power and Custom car. 

[Timewaster]

Even factory kits hide some horrors.

I took the plastic arches off my then 10 year old Golf Gti to investigate a small bleb.

Oh, my, God! Quick stickaflex to hold it back on to where the fixings should have been and never touch it again.

I was getting rid anyway as it was a right money pit.

 

[sierraman]

Jaguar X type plastic oversills!