Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.
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Ray White

Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 7103 Location: Derby
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 4173 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Just looks silly to me. _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 2119 Location: East Yorkshire
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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We do have to remember, each-to-his[her?]-own?
After all, we do have on our own boards, many who would like to modify their motors way way way beyond what would, or could,have been done, ''back-in-the-day??''
Which is hot-rodding at the very least?
I admit to having a desire for a 'Lakes roadster'..Model B, of course.
The thing that puzzles me is, if a V8 Rover motor was to be fitted, the back axle [presuming Morris] won't last too long.
Personally, I have always been ''into'' classic reliability trials....and if out & about in my old Skoda Estelle, [long since gone]...which was equipped to survive and do as well as could be expected, a Reliability Trial..hence, had a lot more ground clearance, and a couple of spare wheels bolted to the rear engine lid......much adverse [ie, ignorant?] comment would be passed, up in this part of the world, by enthusiasts of another sort...those who had never even heard of Reliability Trials, whose motor sporting knowledge might stretch to a vague understanding of what the RAC Rally was once about?
But, we suffer the same in our old [classic, I hate that term!!!] car world, when people want to know why we don't re-paint our cars, and polish them up......? For them, classic cars are all about showing and gleaming..they cannot understand 'usage' at all! |
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1763 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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Selling because he's realised it'll never be road legal? Looks dreadful. |
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Ray White

Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 7103 Location: Derby
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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Anyone who has such abominable ideas as to what should be done to modify a classic car should be taken out and horse whipped!.
This sort of thing is the automotive version of Frankenstein's monster.  |
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GARAGE HERMIT
Joined: 20 Mar 2017 Posts: 186 Location: stockton upon tees, cleveland,
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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it's just an old car he's customizing to suit himself,
old car's are just that, old car's,
not every old car is a so called classic, |
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 2119 Location: East Yorkshire
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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Let's drop the 'classic' bit?
Even an E-type jagwar has its downsides...as I recall? |
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Ray White

Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 7103 Location: Derby
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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GARAGE HERMIT wrote: | it's just an old car he's customizing to suit himself,
old car's are just that, old car's,
not every old car is a so called classic, |
The more the notion that old cars are just there to be chopped up willy nilly the more we loose the belief that really they should be looked after and protected. Anyone can modify an old car but they are only original once.
I no longer care if butchers and bodgers take offence to my ranting on about their insensitive practices.
The worm has turned.
I detest this kind of mutilation.
Get over it. |
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baconsdozen

Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.
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badhuis

Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1468 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Amen to Garage Hermit.
Also, I much more like to see these kind of ugly creatures instead of yet another boring car. No need to get angry about it and condemn the builder. IT is just another Minor which maybe would have been scrapped otherwise.
That said, I think it is supreme ugly. But I also applaud the builders confidence and courage to build a creature like this. _________________ a car stops being fun when it becomes an investment |
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Ray White

Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 7103 Location: Derby
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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I still say it is stupid. That monstrosity says more about the idiot who cobbled it together than I ever could. |
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BigJohn
Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire
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Richard H
Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 2150 Location: Lincolnshire, UK
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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Well, it's not my taste but it's only a Morris Minor 1000. If it was something rarer, and was in good condition prior to being chopped, I might have stronger feelings on the subject! _________________ Richard Hughes |
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Ray White

Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 7103 Location: Derby
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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The whole idea of taking a mundane Morris Minor and morphing it into some kind of dragster seems pointless to me but if that is the future I want no part of it.
It's one thing to be obsessed with speed but quite another to pretend that the vehicle is still somehow a Morris. |
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 2119 Location: East Yorkshire
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | The whole idea of taking a mundane Morris Minor and morphing it into some kind of dragster seems pointless to me but if that is the future I want no part of it.
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The vehicle is very much of the past as well.
WHat we see isn't something new, or novel.
Hot rodding, tuning, modifying, heck, even just fitting a music system [which is something I cannot ever get my head around, in any sort of vehicle]...is very much part of our motoring heritage.
Very often it was the efforts of a hot rodder, or modifier, which eventually gave us what we see now as 'classic' production cars.
[MGB V8 , for one? Shelby Cobra for another?]
All too often the 'standard [stock] production vehicle was in fact nothing but a huge shortfall with regards to its intended task in life.
Personally, I enjoy a vehicle, regardless of age or number of wheels, simply for what it is [to me]....I do not see myself as a 'custodian' in any way shape or form.
The content of my plot, [garage is a loose term for me] is not a museum....as far as I'm concerned.
So I will continue to fit hall sensor ignition to my Ford sidevalve engines...is that hot-rodding? |
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