Camping shite

[Marshall]

Found this on another forum:

 

Looks like a modified starcraft - Didnt they all use Cortinas as donor?

 

[trigger]

OMG!!!

[Torsten2001]

isn't that just lovely, wouldn't it be a Chrysler on an S plate?

[brammy777]

Indeedy do, comes up as a Chrysler Alpine S, and is currently on SORN. Ive seen these before, but not recent images. I dont think a camper can get much more shite, really.

[pogweasel]

HOLY CRAP!

 

that's the motherload, right there.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That is a whole new 'echelon' of shite. No vehicle can be more shite than it.

[cms206]

It appears we have A NU WINNAR!!! That is a stormer!

[Guest]

That thing on the bonnet looks like something you'd sellotape over a smashed-in rear quarter glass.

[pogweasel]

I really think 'the management' should set about harvesting all the megachod pics off the board here to update the main site.

This hopeless many-wheeled lump of rattley-tappeted dog poo is the veritable poster child of all things SHITE.

[scaryoldcortina]

I have news for you (hot off the presses from "kit car" magazine, September 1989)

 

Seemingly, the market for a really nasty build it yourself camper was vibrant enough for someone to "borrow" the starcraft design, and cleverly stick it to the front half of an austin princess instead, creating the "Continental" Motorhome.

 

This of course caused uproar, and letters to the press (kit car) because obviously it isn't fair to just copy someone else's car around a different donor, thats not how kit car companies work, is it...

 

Anyway, the funniest bits are the letters defending the product. They contain phrases like

 

"Founder member of CONECKT (Consortium of North East Kit Car Traders)"

"launched at the National Kit-car show (3 months ago)...we have taken orders"

""immensely strong....25 year life expectancy...latest fibreglass technology and only top quality materials"

and my favorite..

"The aerodynamic body styling offers the minimum wind resistance whilst acheiving the maximum internal living space, 25 to 30 mpg are normal"

 

If I can kick the scanner into life there are a pair of comparison pictures too. But just imagine a princess that someone backed into a caravan if you can't wait.

 

Talbot thing looks like man with a shed saw a starcraft in a magazine, couldn't afford one (and didn't have a cortina) but did have an old caravan and a solara. Stranger things have happened... (morris minor shaped ones)

[mouseflakes]

By the cringe!

[scaryoldcortina]

 

This one could have done with the extra back wheels. I had the misfortune of doing MoT work and driving the thing, it can pull a wheelie and corners on 3 even at 5mph. 1100 A series powah as well.

[barrett]

That is fuggin superb! Straight out of a circa1987 public information film about the dangers of talking to strange men. I notice it is for sale.... who is going to prove themselves a real man and buy it?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Jeezus I had forgotten about that god-awful Minor thing, I bet thats still pottering about somewhere narrowly avoiding other folks tents on campsites, blocking up narrow country roads etc. CRUSH!

[Marshall]

 

Glad this meets with approval

 

Still cant work out what it is. Back is definitely different to a starcraft (above). Reckon Scaryoldcortina could be right with home made although the side profile shape seems different to a caravan so who knows? I remember a starcraft type thing that used a mk2 Sierra front end - It actually looked quite smart.

 

Actually, useing an alpine would have looked better on a starcraft than the fugly cortina covered in plastic seen above!

 

As well as the rear quarter glass effort Hirst mentions being stuck to the bonnet, isnt that a sunroof spoiler on there as well - Why?

[Marshall]

That Minor looks a bit precarious to say the least

[trigger]

Wasn't that Minor called THE SNAIL?.

[eddyramrod]

That Austin Minor is a real abortion, but look at the yardful of classy shite surrounding it! Can we have some more pics please?

 

I have soooooooooooooooooooo many treats for you when I get this stuff worked out...

[scaryoldcortina]

Yeah, The Snail. It's in fuggin books about Morris Minors, it's been around so long. Converted from a 6cwt Austin minor pickup sometime in the early '80s I ensured it's continuing un-roadworthyness by MoT'ing it last year. If I remember right, I had to change the front wheelbearings because someone had put them in backwards. But then, teh front wheels rarely make it onto the road.