Does anyone remember a half minor half Capri car?

[michael1703]

I had an old car mag which I think was from the 1970s

 

It was wide flared minor up to the B post and Capri rear end and roof.

 

Can't remember if it looked good or not but googling can't find it

[fred]

Might have some joy on the Rods n sods site ?

[mouseflakes]

Might have some joy on the Rods n sods site ?

Spot on fred!!

 

http://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/forum/history-archive/minors-9711/page11

 

[Tamworthbay]

[M'coli]

How do you think they came up with the Marina coupe?

[Stixy]

Remember seeing this on ebay about 9 years ago   looked rough though 

[Faker]

What in the name of fuk is that about?!

[sierraman]

It was spotted on Rust in Peace in Craptical Plastics about 15 years ago. I'll try and root out which copy it was in. So it survived at least until circa 2000

[sierraman]

Tax ran out 1993

[chaseracer]

I half-remember a similar abomination involving a Capri and a Jag XJ6, but my Google-fu is weak tonight and I cannot find pictures.

 

Probably just as well.

[michael1703]

That looks fucking awful!

 

The one I remember was red and it blended in better at the B post

 

This one looks like a motorhome has been stuck on it

[chaseracer]

This one looks like a motorhome has been stuck on it

 

 

[dieselassist]

there was also a street'machine mag featured minor body swop onto a capri floorpan - 100% of the minor body being lobbed onto the gutted down capri pan; I seem to remember it being in the 'swop shop' section; usually dealing in engine swops... it looked like a decently executed swop, from what you could see in the B&W photos...

 

Hindsight's great, isn't it;  seems like utter folly now, rebodying a capri into a minor...

 

...its either on retrorides or rods n sods being 'restored'/improved up, recently - I cant remember if it has its own thread, as I have a shit short term memory...

[Spottedlaurel]

Goodness me, that is particularly odd.

 

I half-remember a similar abomination involving a Capri and a Jag XJ6, but my Google-fu is weak tonight and I cannot find pictures.

 

Probably just as well.

 

The Capri/Jaguar hybrid was a 6-wheeler, some pic's of it in this thread: http://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/forum/history-archive/custom-capri-thread-anyone-7811/page6

[Tamworthbay]

there was also a street'machine mag featured minor body swop onto a capri floorpan - 100% of the minor body being lobbed onto the gutted down capri pan; I seem to remember it being in the 'swop shop' section; usually dealing in engine swops... it looked like a decently executed swop, from what you could see in the B&W photos...

 

Hindsight's great, isn't it;  seems like utter folly now, rebodying a capri into a minor...

 

...its either on retrorides or rods n sods being 'restored'/improved up, recently - I cant remember if it has its own thread, as I have a shit short term memory...

I may be unfairly judging those in the 60s and 70s who did such wild conversions before I was born/ still wearing short trousers but most of them seemed to involve enough wob to fill a small skip and all the structural integrity of a b and q basics shed.

[chaseracer]

The Capri/Jaguar hybrid was a 6-wheeler, some pic's of it in this thread: http://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/forum/history-archive/custom-capri-thread-anyone-7811/page6

 

 

Jesus wept.  Yes, that's the one.

 

 

That went well, clearly...

[michael1703]

I hoped the minorcrapi had loads of switches and gauges for lots of uninteresting functions,like vacuum gauge

[Inspector Morose]

I may be unfairly judging those in the 60s and 70s who did such wild conversions before I was born/ still wearing short trousers but most of them seemed to involve enough wob to fill a small skip and all the structural integrity of a b and q basics shed.

Very true but this was the golden days of automotive innocence. In these times originality and the value of the end result was the furthest from the minds of their creators.

 

They just wanted to have fun. I do think in these money obsessed, letigious times, we have lost the innocence of those days when bolting half a jag to half a Capri was though of as a cool idea.

[chaseracer]

I do think in these money obsessed, letigious times, we have lost the innocence of those days when bolting half a jag to half a Capri was though of as a cool idea.

 

I agree.  So much more sensible to weld the mortal remains of a PA Cresta to the bottom half of a Jag XJR8...

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/107672

 

 

 

...or stick a 200SX under a Morris Minor - http://sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?219069-MadMinor-project-not-56k-friendly-though

 

...or persuade the oily bits of an Impreza into a mk1 Escort!

[mouseflakes]

I used to get Hot Car then Street Machine* instead of a comic. I still love those 70's custom cars.

 

(*parents buying Custom Car for their young son would have been, frankly, creepy)

[Lacquer Peel]

(*parents buying Custom Car for their young son would have been, frankly, creepy)

 

Why's that? Pre-Max Power access to soft porn?

[Mr A Lawrence]

 

[Faker]

 

 

...or stick a 200SX under a Morris Minor - http://sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?219069-MadMinor-project-not-56k-friendly-though

 

 

What ever happened to the minor. It just vanished

[mouseflakes]

Why's that? Pre-Max Power access to soft porn?

 

Pretty much. CC did seem to feature the 'best' cars though. I think that's why Street Machine was launched. Hot Car wasn't pure custom cars, it also featured plenty of kit cars and the like, while Street Machine was like CC but without the nakedness.

[Asimo]

My GCE results were strongly influenced by discovering Custom Car magazine in 1972.

Hours of "exam revision" became hours of doodling body chops, engine swaps, paint schemes, shagworthy interiors and car-engined bikes. Recurrent themes were Capri bodies reversed so the car appeared to be going backwards, Minors with V4 engines (Lancia, not Ford!), Landcrabs, tiger-pattern velour bench seats and metalflake paint.

 

That Minor Capri hybrid is ace. I want to make another one with the leftovers; Capri (hope it's a V4) front and Minor rear. l wonder if that would be van, Traveller or saloon?

[DSdriver]

What do you call a five wheeled trike? 

 

Don't bother.

[Mad Cyril]

I've seen the Minor/Capri thing in the flesh.
It used to be in a showroom/garage in Tattershall (near Horncastle) in Lincolnshire.
Don't rush off for a gander though, it was about 20 years ago.

[Guest Hooli]

What do you call a five wheeled trike? 

 

 

An abomination.

 

In fact that goes for every car pictured on this thread, except the Cresta/Jag which kind of looks ok.

[Alusilber]

Reminds me of a grainy photo I saw somewhere not that long ago of a similar cut'n'shut featuring a Minor and a Beetle. Can't remember which end was which, or where the engine was.

[chodweaver]

^ Hopefully, the front of the beetle and the rear of the minor, thereby restricting it's movement and preventing it from offending anyone who hasn't actually gone to see it on purpose.

 

EFA I should explain - as a child I read many editions of a publication named Speed and Power. It was mostly fanciful tosh, but there was one article, supported by real photos, of two cars that American gentlemen had constructed out of the parts of around 7 other cars, all different makes, so that they could name them ChryBuiFoillacodges or somesuch, and hawk them around minor events like the Butter festival of Tallahassee.

 

This has left me with some deep mental scars and not helped my OCD, as I'm sure you can appreciate.

 

Tl : Dr

 

+1 for abominations, except for the Cresta

 

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