Have You Seen Any Interesting Cars On The Road Lately?

[GrandEd]

Think I saw a Shelby GT500 Super Snake (something like that)
A bit of a space ship - wide body, air suspension resting on the ground, upward opening drivers door and soooo very loud.
A far cry from the 1960s original.

 

[ALFAitalia]

.....like this?

Shelby Super Snake.......which coincidently is my wifes nickname for me!!!!

 

[GrandEd]

That looks very much like it.

 

[GrandEd]

But with even more expensive bling parts

 

[GrandEd]

The drivers door opened like a Lamborghini Countach scissor door. The passenger door looked to open normal style.

 

[ALFAitalia]

Yeah....there are several aftermarket scissor door kits for them......one of my young neighbours (now moved away thankfully) had scissor door conversion on his Corsa!!!

 

[GrandEd]

Yep that’s it - and what made me think space ship.

 

[GrandEd]

I’ve just realised you said ‘on a Corsa’
That is comedy value

 

[ALFAitalia]

He was a nice enough lad....reminded me of me at his age.....car modding mad......but his pipe with dual exit (one each side) was straight through with 3 inch tube....no baffles at all!!! It could wake the dead.....which is why I said I was glad when his family moved away!!!

 

[GrandEd]

Would that ever pass an MOT - straight pipes.

 

[Darrell]

Yeah....there are several aftermarket scissor door kits for them......one of my young neighbours (now moved away thankfully) had scissor door conversion on his Corsa!!!

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I saw a great photo years ago showing a Corsa in a petrol station with its naff scissor door conversion beside a newer Lambo that didn’t have scissor doors.

The caption read “Scissor doors are so naff even Lambo’s don’t have them”

 

[SpikyMikey]

Didnt see this today, but see it now and then. Does it count?

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What's going on over the wheel arches?

 

[GrandEd]

……..ran out of wrap and hoped they’d get away with it ?

 

[SpikyMikey]

……..ran out of wrap and hoped they’d get away with it ?

Or maybe someone nicked the stick on arch extensions.

 

[GrandEd]

Can’t help but think they look like datum marks for a Euro NCAP test

 

[Abzynthe]

I’m guessing they just typed in E-class into Aliexpress and filled their cart.

 

[Steveml63]

If you want to be really silly, what you need is 'busa engine boosted to about 350bhp in a car which weighs little over 350kgs and climbs hills....
quickly! A good friend of mine is owner and driver of this. Holds a fair few course records!

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Hi
This reminds me of one of my kit cars - a Tiger Super Six.
It had an RS2.1 blueprinted engine and went extremely well!
I previously owned two Dutton kit cars in my younger days - a Dutton Malaga & a Dutton Phaeton.
This is a picture of the Tiger (wish I never sold it!!)