Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[Ray White]

Why anyone would want to create such a heap of junk I have no idea but if this is their idea of a classic car then I feel sorry for them.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unfinished-Hot-Rod-project-Gasser-Morris-Minor-Rat-Rod-Custom/302271462629?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D40656%26meid%3D3798f91642ed4b418db3f291013cbda8%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D6%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D122432934659

[Rootes75]

Just looks silly to me.
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[alastairq]

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!

[Bitumen Boy]

Selling because he's realised it'll never be road legal? Looks dreadful.

[Ray White]

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.

[GARAGE HERMIT]

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,

[alastairq]

Let's drop the 'classic' bit?

Even an E-type jagwar has its downsides...as I recall?

[Ray White]

[baconsdozen]

Its his so he can do what he likes to it.Personally I wouldnt be seen dead in it,but each to his own.
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[badhuis]

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.
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[Ray White]

I still say it is stupid. That monstrosity says more about the idiot who cobbled it together than I ever could.

[BigJohn]

Maybe he was inspired by this, and his inspiration out reached his talent.

http://bangshift.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/gasser.jpg

[Richard H]

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!
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[Ray White]

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.

[alastairq]