Quantum Cars...

[retrogeezer]

Remember someone asking about about these in the ebay thread somewhere. Dug these leaflets out and scanned them for you:

 

 

[Station]

The thing with these kit cars is, they look like they've been designed by two different people in two different rooms, one designs the front and the other the back. In the dark.They look nice until cost cutting only allows for a pair of Cortina headlights or a pair of motor factor fog lights or something.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I think those quantums look pretty 'proper' actually, they look a lot more like they might justify the effort of building than most airfix shitters.

[shite_meister]

The thing that I hate about most kit cars is the way most look wank around the wheelarches just like this one does, they all look like theres something massively wrong because it appears that nobody has actually built one up properly at the design stage then re-designed the body around the mechanical bits.

[Milford Cubicle]

They offered a diesel one. Nice!I quite like the look of these things too, especially the coupe/hatchback one.

[Guest]

The thing that I hate about most kit cars is the way most look wank around the wheelarches just like this one does, they all look like theres something massively wrong because it appears that nobody has actually built one up properly at the design stage then re-designed the body around the mechanical bits.

I never noticed this until I'd read what you've put. It does look somewhat over bodied for its wheels and track.

[Mr Lobster]

I have a mate who built one a few years back. It's quite a nice thing actually and looks pretty decent for a kit car. Fiesta dashboard spoils it a bit though.

[barrett]

they remind me a bit of those vegantune elan knock-offs from the late 80s.

[Guest]

The Quantum factory is still running, so I assume they still make the kits, or have they diversified into boats? My girlfrield lived within 100 yards of that factory for 22 years.

[Station]

It just looks like a Probe has been grafted on the top of a saloon car.

 

Here's some 'bad' kit car reproductions for you:

 

'Countach'

 

 

 

You will find many kit cars on ebay. Each one built to replicate or imitate 355’s or Diablo’s. This is not the case here. This car has taken on its own life. It began life as a GT Fiero V6 (Very Fast). The first owner took the reins to produce a Lamborghini Countach. He sold it to another man with many Countach kits; he ultimately got bored with it. Crossing race car ruggedness with low sweeping Lamborghini lines this car has evolved into what you see here. Hand crafted out of aluminum with a custom triplex windscreen. Over the years it has attracted a lot of interesting looks as 1 of a kind.

 

If you want to do something different I would build off of current trends. If you look at the latest Batmobile driven by Christian Bale then you will see the same rugged hard metal look of this kit. Paint this car flat black, tint the windows and add a few triangular aluminum panels and you have yourself the 1st Batmobile replica of this generation. Wild, razor edged, and rugged.

 

The car has been sitting for a while in a nice garage. It may have engine trouble so I will throw in another Fiero with the deal. I guess that’s 2 cars for 1 price! Anyways I think it has potential so if you have the time, make something cool out of this thing.

 

 

More here:

 

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/to ... ver?&mid=0

 

McClaren F1 Replica:

 

 

[Guest]

They offered a diesel one. Nice!I quite like the look of these things too, especially the coupe/hatchback one.

Someone actually built a diesel one too - sold on Ebay for a few hundred quid some years back. It still had the pink Fiesta Popular headrestless seats of the donor van

[Station]

Here's one. I bet the 1.6 engine is stunning!

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1997-QUANTUM-2-PL ... 27ac7940fe

[Gompo]

they remind me a bit of those vegantune elan knock-offs from the late 80s.

I think they were called or became Evante? I quite like them, but they're about 10 times as much as a second hand Quantum - Possibly rightly so though..I've always thought there was something wrong with the Quantum look. Underwheeled yes but they do just seem overtly high. Maybe lowering would help but there is something with the height of the top of the wings that make them easy. Possibly something to do with the Ford mechanicals yet trying to create more of a curvy exterior.

[Guest Tony Hayers]

The back end looks so wrong. OI M8, DEM LIGHTZ BELONG ON A SEIRRA.

[Rocket88]

I know a bit about these. The saloon jobby actually has a fibreglass monococque [no steel subframes] which was [and is] pretty tricky to get right. I know and old giffer who built one using a diesel Fiesta as a base. I was surprisingly nice to drive, and 50 mpg. He's had it for years, never had any problem with it. They're built very well, and seem to last forever