badly modified cars

[overrun]

 Has this been left near the fore for too long?

 

I always thought they looked like that.

Disgusting.

[fordperv]

This was my first car at aged 17

 

1989 Vauxhall Nova 1.2 L by Alan Gold, on Flickr

 

Sick innit?

Calling FOAD calling FOAD, this car is on ebay, my mate sent me a link via Whatsapp because we were talking about max power throwbacks, looks like someone has made more improvements

 

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nova-saloon-/201541005838?_trkparms=aid%253D222007%2526algo%253DSIC.MBE%2526ao%253D1%2526asc%253D20150519202351%2526meid%253De278b11b6d5846dbaae807f4a8a38ad5%2526pid%253D100408%2526rk%253D4%2526rkt%253D13%2526mehot%253Dpp%2526sd%253D172126308601&_trksid=p2056116.c100408.m2460

 

[Dippy]

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WTF? Look at the rear quarterlight.

 

I think thats the least of his worries.

[Negative Creep]

Where they all are now? - Probably most have been scrapped I'd imagine (despite the vast sums of money some of them cost to do). You just don't seem to see any about nowadays (I'm guessing that youngsters have to spend so much on insurance they can't afford to go the chav-up route) except for the odd 'cruise' or whatever it's called.

 

 

They're all on ebay as "project car 99% complete just needs a few bits to get through the MOT but I have too many projects so this one has to go"

[Station]

I loved all this, at least there was a scene.

 

I never understood painting interior plastics.

[DodgyBastard]

Does nobody think its strange that the photos were taken in the same place of that Barry nova?

 

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[xtriple]

I had a mk1 Escort that I modified....

 

I bought it for my then girlfriend (it  was a tidy, bog standard 1.1 escort in met grey) and sorted the holes in the front wings with isopon and one of those magic bits of clear plastic.... I borrowed it to go to work one day and got rear ended by a police car! They were proper buggers and never did pay out, just stalled and stalled for ever, probably oneof the various places my dislike of the Police comes from, but, hey ho, I'm off at a tangent again....

 

So I bought it for a second time, this time from her.  After months of the bootlid being held down with string (had to be kept in accident damaged state) I pushed the rear panel back out with wood and a scissor jack and bought a 'new' bootlid from the scrapyard. It was pink emulsion! It had a 'ducktail' spoiler on it! I was in love....

 

So it got stripped out inside (the floors had holes and I couldn't be arsed after doing it to put the rubber carpets back in) all the bumpers off, a big front panel/spoiler thing, bubble arches and wide steel wheels.

 

It was all in grey primer...

 

I fucking loved it!

 

It was still a 1.1 but now with a Webber carb and I used to rev it until the valves bounced and thrash it everywhere. It eventually got a 1.6 engine (still with 1.1 brakes and suspension) bucket front seats, a six hole dash with all the gauges working and I loved it to death.

 

Then, one mad day, I decided that grey primer had been there uncovered for long enough and sprayed it white and fitted proper carpet and tidied it all up inside and it looked great.

 

I hated it!

 

No real idea why, just suddenly felt like it was a 'serious' car again instead of a noisy obnoxious riot of fun and slides. So I sold it.

[fordperv]

Does nobody think its strange that the photos were taken in the same place of that Barry nova?

 

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I didn't want to cause any undue embarrassment by pointing it out to look like the same yard, do you still own it FOAD?

[DodgyBastard]

Really?

 

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[Sealtainn]

I always fancied an Illusion kit on my Mk4 Escort but the £1,000+ price tag before fitting and painting was a step too far for my meagre budget

So I just bunged some XR2 Pepperpots on my 1.3L along with an RS Turbo rear spoiler. I always entered the Lax Bowels competitions to win their Project Cars - was gutted when the winner of Project Thunder (a luminous yellow Carlton) stuffed it through a shop front

 

[TataBobu]

 

 

Strangely though, no brigh blue LED screenwasher nozzles.

[djimbob]

 

 

Strangely though, no brigh blue LED screenwasher nozzles.

 

That is a carpark full of winners

[Split_Pin]

I didn't want to cause any undue embarrassment by pointing it out to look like the same yard, do you still own it FOAD?

He's guising.

[Guest Hooli]

So I just bunged some XR2 Pepperpots on my 1.3L along with an RS Turbo rear spoiler. I always entered the Lax Bowels competitions to win their Project Cars - was gutted when the winner of Project Thunder (a luminous yellow Carlton) stuffed it through a shop front

 

Funny isn't it? Project Thunder is the only one anyone remembers. Ran on four Lotus Carlton front wheels IIRC because even with the look-a-like kit the rear arches were too small for the proper rear wheels.

[Sealtainn]

I remember RS Kicker, Mad Max and I think I've got a picture of me at the Motorshow with Project 2000

 

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[Sealtainn]

Just had a dig through my old photos and found a couple of the Motorshow in the late 90s. IIRC Project 2000 was done in 1997.

Check me out with my swept hairdo and leather jacket Also found a picture of a Dimma-kitted 306 which frankly I would still drive today (providing it was running on veg, obviously)

[MarvinsMom]

i'm always amazed that things like this can legally be used on the road.

 

 

i know that it is older (well, some of it is...) than 1960 so is mot except.

 

BUT....

 

exposed wheels, exposed bits of engine and chassis??

 

how does that work?

 

it looks like death on 4 wheels to me.....

 

these are not my thing i know,

 

and yes, i realise that there is alot of skilled work that goes into a good one of these, i just don't get how come its legal?

[captain_70s]

I'll have to take a photo of my co-workers modded Corsa D, it's a right heap of Halfords shit.

 

For bonus points she's not passed her driving test yet, or told her insurance company about her awful cosmetic alterations.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I was chatting to a neighbour yesterday. He was chuckling how his son had bought a sporty gearknob for his Honda Civic.

[Pillock]

I'll have to take a photo of my co-workers modded Corsa D, it's a right heap of Halfords shit.

 

For bonus points she's not passed her driving test yet, or told her insurance company about her awful cosmetic alterations.

 

I doubt that Autoshite is on the radar of most insurance companies, but I do know that Barryboys is.

I once snapped quite an amusing Hyundai and stuck photos online - it was proper toss, with a big bodykit but 13" skinny wheels, primer, filler, everything.

 

A week or so later there were all sorts of threats to me on there, apparently the insurers had sent the owner a letter with a new premium for all the mods he hadn't declared. Wasn't happy.

[Negative Creep]

Although tastes change, part of the reason is that modern cars are so hard to do anything to. In the old days you could go down the scrappy and pull parts off a higher spec model, or one of it's bigger brothers. Now it's not as if you can just take an ECU from the go faster model to get a performance boost, and half the dash would have to come apart just to change the stereo. Seemed to be everywhere a few years ago, now all you get is a pineappled VW on cut springs

 

That said, I did see a comically shit Saxo on my way home from work. Badly fitted bodykit, wob up both sides, that oh so funny "shocker" sticker and badly fitted HIDS. The fact it seemed to be doing 5000rpm at 30mph made it all the better

[fatharris]

I doubt that Autoshite is on the radar of most insurance companies, but I do know that Barryboys is.

I once snapped quite an amusing Hyundai and stuck photos online - it was proper toss, with a big bodykit but 13" skinny wheels, primer, filler, everything.

 

A week or so later there were all sorts of threats to me on there, apparently the insurers had sent the owner a letter with a new premium for all the mods he hadn't declared. Wasn't happy.

I remember that, link for anyone intrigued!

 

http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=25398

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I remember that, link for anyone intrigued!

http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=25398

^ What a vile bunch.

[seth]

i'm always amazed that things like this can legally be used on the road.

 

 

Well, there's massive cans of worms to be found when you look into some of these things.  For a start there are differences between Construction and Use regs and the MOT. 

But then in recent years it has been cars' identitiies and registrations that have been causing greater issues.  For instance, it is highly unlikely that the one in your photo could be legitimately registered as pre-60.

[Guest Hooli]

i'm always amazed that things like this can legally be used on the road.

 

 

i know that it is older (well, some of it is...) than 1960 so is mot except.

 

BUT....

 

exposed wheels, exposed bits of engine and chassis??

 

how does that work?

 

it looks like death on 4 wheels to me.....

 

these are not my thing i know,

 

and yes, i realise that there is alot of skilled work that goes into a good one of these, i just don't get how come its legal?

 

I don't think it is legal, if for nothing else that uncovered wheels.

 

It's C&U regs though not MOT so unless the last traffic plod in the land is bored it'll never get stopped for that.

[mikebee]

There's a rover 45 round here that looks like thunderbird 4.

[mikebee]

love it.