Kit car with a star or the real thing.

[trapperjohn]

Seen in Lancashire today at a Steam Fair. Not by me I had other fish to fry. Methinks kit car.

 

[Smatt]

number plate looks genuine?

 

[Charles Morgan]

A number plate ending in F is from 1967. No chance for a pre-war Mercedes.

The body kit is clunky and detailing wrong.

 

[jamesfuller]

Is that one of those Excalibur things?

 

[Smatt]

A number plate ending in F is from 1967. No chance for a pre-war Mercedes.

The body kit is clunky and detailing wrong.

-genuine for that age.....
certainly agree does not look at all pre war

 

[trapperjohn]

Ah yes could well be and Excalibur. Well remembered James Fuller.

 

[E270 Owner]

Seen in Lancashire today at a Steam Fair. Not by me I had other fish to fry. Methinks kit car.

Bung any badge on one of those things

Excalibur Phaeton 3​

 

[moonloops]

Look at the front suspension - looks fairly modern underneath..

 

[brucemillar]

KCK259F

Ford. 5.4. Registered 2013.

Sent from my iPhone using MBClub UK

 

[Stratman]

It has coilovers on the front.

 

[Dieselman]

It looks pretty crappy all round.

If you are going to spend time building a car, why waste it building one that is rubbish?

When I was at school, a lad from up the road designed and built his own car from scratch as an A level project. It was 100 times better than that.

 

[E270 Owner]

Create A Ride Make Design Your Own Car Game

 

[John Jones Jr]

It looks pretty crappy all round.

If you are going to spend time building a car, why waste it building one that is rubbish?

Agree. I recently saw a similar effort that was supposed to be a 30's Alfa...dire is the only word that could explain it. Never mind the cost & man hours. The funny thing is it would have been all the better, ten times better in fact, if it had no badges or emblems on it.

 

[E55BOF]

It looks pretty crappy all round.

If you are going to spend time building a car, why waste it building one that is rubbish?
.

I dare say the owner is happy, which after all is the object of the exercise. I wouldn't want one like that, though.

 

[eGuru]

1937 Roadster, the real thing I am told.

 

[jamesfuller]

At some traffic lights today something made to resemble a vintage car with a B on it rattled up. Diesel powered, fake wire wheeled contraption. Tim Birkin would have been rolling on the floor in uncontrollable laughter if this was back then! I think it was Sherpa powered! Fake blower and SU sticking out the front!

 

[219]

The owner of that abomination had better watch out : Mercedes-Benz copyright protection team will be on him like a ton of bricks for displaying the star ( registered trademark ) on an inferior vehicle .

Not only the star , but the design and appearance of vehicles is copyrighted . There have been recent news stories of fake vehicles being seized and crushed .

Merc destroys 300SL gullwing replica - BBC Top Gear

 

[Dieselman]

At some traffic lights today something made to resemble a vintage car with a B on it rattled up. Diesel powered, fake wire wheeled contraption. Tim Birkin would have been rolling on the floor in uncontrollable laughter if this was back then! I think it was Sherpa powered! Fake blower and SU sticking out the front!

Sounds like a Beauford. Your description is accurate...

 

[Dieselman]

Mercedes-Benz copyright protection team will be on him like a ton of bricks for displaying the star ( registered trademark ) on an inferior vehicle .

Here we go again...

 

[V12]

Recently seen parked up outside a hotel in Dubai.