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Looks like Duplo

Saw that last night.

Just why?

I think we had that on t'old forum, probably the same chap selling it. He could have painted under the bonnet in the meantime.

speedingfine wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:02 am Looks like Duplo

but Duplo's how it is to prevent choking

Wait, that’s an e36 evo with 26k miles for £8k... so someone has probably spent £10k fucking up a car to make it worth about £10k less than it should be!

Rich B wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:47 am Wait, that’s an e36 evo with 26k miles for £8k... so someone has probably spent £10k fucking up a car to make it worth about £10k less than it should be!

I wonder how easy it would be to unfuck it?

It's a cat c writeoff anyway.

Annoying how eBay / gumtree doesn't automatically flag it like autotrader does.

integrale_evo wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:11 am It's a cat c writeoff anyway.

I think that is the least of its problems

It probably means the person who did that bought it as a write off when they were cheap then 'fixed' it like that.

Of course, that doesn't excuse how vile it is.

If the engine is as good as it should be at that mileage it's worth near on £8k in bits.

Would be quite good fun to buy it and chisel all the fibreglass and filler off with a lump hammer and bolster.

I've said it before but who stands back from a monstrosity like that and thinks "nailed it!"

integrale_evo wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:16 pm It probably means the person who did that bought it as a write off when they were cheap then 'fixed' it like that.

Of course, that doesn't excuse how vile it is.

If the engine is as good as it should be at that mileage it's worth near on £8k in bits.

Would be quite good fun to buy it and chisel all the fibreglass and filler off with a lump hammer and bolster.

Agreed, it'd be quite cathartic to strip all the good parts off then take a hammer to the rest.

Zonda_ wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:29 pm I've said it before but who stands back from a monstrosity like that and thinks "nailed it!"

Most of the mid/late 2000's car modding/Max Power type scene seems to be made up of desperate shit like this.

Zonda_ wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:29 pm I've said it before but who stands back from a monstrosity like that and thinks "nailed it!"

It’s worse than that. It’s who dreams something like this up and manages to maintain the enthusiasm through the hours of work, the financial commitment, and the many struggles working on any car brings to actually finish something so shit? I can’t follow through on my good ideas.

_andy wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 5:36 pm

Zonda_ wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:29 pm I've said it before but who stands back from a monstrosity like that and thinks "nailed it!"

Most of the mid/late 2000's car modding/Max Power type scene seems to be made up of desperate shit like this.

I used to love max power, and revs, back in the 90s, but gave up on them in around 99 /2000 when I had started to grow up a bit which also coincided with the majority of their feature cars being underpowered hatchbacks with huge wheels and acres of fibreglass.

integrale_evo wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:49 pm

_andy wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 5:36 pm

Zonda_ wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:29 pm I've said it before but who stands back from a monstrosity like that and thinks "nailed it!"

Most of the mid/late 2000's car modding/Max Power type scene seems to be made up of desperate shit like this.

I used to love max power, and revs, back in the 90s, but gave up on them in around 99 /2000 when I had started to grow up a bit which also coincided with the majority of their feature cars being underpowered hatchbacks with huge wheels and acres of fibreglass.

6R4's?

More like 1.1 saxos

mr_jon wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:26 pm

integrale_evo wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:49 pm

_andy wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 5:36 pm

Most of the mid/late 2000's car modding/Max Power type scene seems to be made up of desperate shit like this.

I used to love max power, and revs, back in the 90s, but gave up on them in around 99 /2000 when I had started to grow up a bit which also coincided with the majority of their feature cars being underpowered hatchbacks with huge wheels and acres of fibreglass.

6R4's?

Their 1st ever issue had a green Skeete kitted R5 GTT as the cover feature When were they ever not about wide arch kits?

mr_jon wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:26 pm

integrale_evo wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:49 pm

_andy wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 5:36 pm

Most of the mid/late 2000's car modding/Max Power type scene seems to be made up of desperate shit like this.

I used to love max power, and revs, back in the 90s, but gave up on them in around 99 /2000 when I had started to grow up a bit which also coincided with the majority of their feature cars being underpowered hatchbacks with huge wheels and acres of fibreglass.

6R4's?

380bhp is underpowered?

Swervin_Mervin wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:15 pm

mr_jon wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:26 pm

integrale_evo wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:49 pm

I used to love max power, and revs, back in the 90s, but gave up on them in around 99 /2000 when I had started to grow up a bit which also coincided with the majority of their feature cars being underpowered hatchbacks with huge wheels and acres of fibreglass.

6R4's?

Their 1st ever issue had a green Skeete kitted R5 GTT as the cover feature When were they ever not about wide arch kits?

Well yeah, they liked wide arch stuff, but at least a lot of the cover cars had decent engines or at least performance upgrades.

First issue I bought had a schnitzer 3.5 turbo e30 m3 on the cover, others I remember we're an lm kitted f40, group a recreation integrale, top secret supra / skyline etc.

At least stuff like the skeet, dimma, reiger etc looked like they could have at least some performance hidden behind them unlike the later pure styling exercise 'show cars'

I only ever bought one or two copies of Max Power, I think. Whenever I looked at it in the shelf it was always full of Mynheer-kitted Rover 25 with the standard 1.1 engine, or a Saxo that some gimp had spent £50k on to turn it into a mobile Wigan nightclub. I don’t remember ever seeing anything decent in it.