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Punto (Mk1) My maramite car - love it or hate it - work in progress
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Damn, I remember that scene as well (from reading old Custom Car magazines I hasten to add)I also remember the craze of bootlid "lip" spoilers, huge "Whale Tail" spoilers and incredibly bad "body kits" that were more blocky than LEGO. Not to mention the craze for colour coding everything, especially white cars in the late 80's...
Five door cars can look very cool, but not with Lambo doors. Cool five doors only need to have suicide rear doors
Back when car modding was Modding and not bolt on wonder boys!. My dad showed me pics of his capri he had when he was 18!. Had a Rover 3L V8 and the Rover Rear Axle to get the 'Drag' Look :worship:.
did it have side pipes and the back jacked up, with a flashing red lights under the back?
Yeah m8 all bin well i should be here
One summer evening in 1981, a group of us were having a drink outside a certain hostelry near Stockport and resting our glasses on a convenient rear spoiler belonging to a Capri 3.0S. Someone noticed a better "table", namely a "Whaletail" spoiler on a nearby Porsche 911 Turbo. We all moved over to admire this incredible appendage, then deciding it was far better than the Capri's, plonked our glasses on it. You could get a couple of ashtrays on it as well. We guessed it might belong to a friend so we weren't concerned at the possible reaction. Unfortunately, when the driver came out (just as we were about to leave) it wasn't who we thought it was and words were "exchanged"Damn, I remember that scene as well (from reading old Custom Car magazines I hasten to add)
Five door cars can look very cool, but not with Lambo doors. Cool five doors only need to have suicide rear doors
The Porsche left the pub car park with the Capri 3.0S right behind it, closely followed by me in my Chevette 2300HS. The Capri managed to get ahead of the Porsche, the driver of which felt his manhood had been impugned and tried to get ahead of the Crapi (sic). Eventually as he got near a roundabout, he made it and determined to show the superiority of his car, forgot about the inferority of his driving and spun it, not once but two and a half times on the exit from the roundabout ending up facing the wrong way. Unfortunately, the driver of another Capri came over to see if he was ok. This car was white with a nice blue light on the roof and a very fetching orange striped down the side. We were all so "concerned" about this reckless driver that, after parking in a safe and convenient place came back to offer our statements to the Police officer, who happened to be called Barry. How did I know this? Because he was an erstwhile drinking partner of ours. The Porsche driver was duly breathalysed, found to be over the limit and arrested. The driver of the 3rd car in our group, a 12 year old Triumph Vitesse, concerned at how distressed the arrested driver's girlfriend was, offered to give her a lift, via his place.
As to the pictures of the cars with the "suicide doors", Lincoln Continenals methinks. U.S. makers like Lincoln and Cadillac thought that in order to make a top flight car all you needed was features like those doors or opera windows, or giving it a long French-ish sounding name, such as Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham.
Sorry this was so long, again.
Five door cars can look very cool, but not with Lambo doors. Cool five doors only need to have suicide rear doors
unless of course you fit reverse lambos on the rear doors?
...it's obvious that there's a lot of work going into this car, and while it's not exactly to my tastes (hate 5 doors in general, not a fan of lexus lights, and that front bumper.... well lets just say it doesn't do anything for me), I think respect is due for having the balls to do something so extreme...
Honest opinion? - lose the lexus lights and the front bumper, rear lambo conversion on the doors, and perhaps some kind of headlight conversion up front?
The lights will be gone(front & rear), but am sticking with the bumpers & the suicide doors
wheels man needs bigger wheels
yh ino but never actually got any solid feed back as to what size you can have when lowered 50mm before you need the arches rolled out
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I would say dont go bigger than 16's
16s look best, but for something as erm... crazy as that, it needs 17s. personally i would buy new wheels, find out if they fit or not, if not then just buy 35mm springs and sell the 50mm ones on here.
just expect your car to be slower and have a very harsh ride
just expect your car to be slower and have a very harsh ride
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well its a 1.2 it aint exactly going to break the sound barrier atm lol
16's shud fit on a 50mm car tho shunt they
16's shud fit on a 50mm car tho shunt they
All the more reason not to slow it down any further.
LOL! thats class..however at least he's not about going to attempt to nail, either an electric supercharger or a turbo off a coupe to his 1.2.
see, heres my argument.
i do love modified cars, and the majoraty of them do look great.
but why do it to 1.0 corsa or fiesta and even a 1.2 punto. it just seems poitnless. if it were a punto GT, then its a different story.
and i understand that young drivers (and it is generally young drivers who modify their cars like this) cant afford the insurance for a fast car. but wouldnt all thease mods bring the insurance upto the price of insuring a fast car ? Let alone the money they spent modifing it in the first place.
i guess i just feel sorry for the drivers of the little 1000cc cars which have obviously had hundreds and maybe even thousands of pounds spent on them, just to be beaten at the lights by my £500 cinq
dont get me wrong, i love the car. just do the same to a faster one !!!!
please
i do love modified cars, and the majoraty of them do look great.
but why do it to 1.0 corsa or fiesta and even a 1.2 punto. it just seems poitnless. if it were a punto GT, then its a different story.
and i understand that young drivers (and it is generally young drivers who modify their cars like this) cant afford the insurance for a fast car. but wouldnt all thease mods bring the insurance upto the price of insuring a fast car ? Let alone the money they spent modifing it in the first place.
i guess i just feel sorry for the drivers of the little 1000cc cars which have obviously had hundreds and maybe even thousands of pounds spent on them, just to be beaten at the lights by my £500 cinq
dont get me wrong, i love the car. just do the same to a faster one !!!!
please
see, heres my argument.
i do love modified cars, and the majoraty of them do look great.
but why do it to 1.0 corsa or fiesta and even a 1.2 punto. it just seems poitnless. if it were a punto GT, then its a different story.
and i understand that young drivers (and it is generally young drivers who modify their cars like this) cant afford the insurance for a fast car. but wouldnt all thease mods bring the insurance upto the price of insuring a fast car ? Let alone the money they spent modifing it in the first place.
i guess i just feel sorry for the drivers of the little 1000cc cars which have obviously had hundreds and maybe even thousands of pounds spent on them, just to be beaten at the lights by my £500 cinq
dont get me wrong, i love the car. just do the same to a faster one !!!!
please
whether its 65bhp or 365bhp the looks are still going to be awful.
Modified car owners insurance doesn't always go up with mods, as most owners don't even declare them to the insurers.
because a 1.2 can go as fast as the speed limit allows same as a bigger engine car. parts and servicing are cheaper, and the engines are a lot easier to work on
Tell you what mate im loving the fact that your thread/car is causing a storm
You know youve got a true legend in the making when it does this
My car has been laughed at, pointed at, and rocked but ive kept it for 10 years and i LOVE it!
Im sure there are plenty of people who think 'yellow wheels' look gash, ****e, blah, etc and that the fact that i have never touched my engine makes it 'pointless' but theresone thing you cant argue with - BABYSEI has been around for longer than most of the cars on here and still gets recognised :worship: its a fooking legend.
Keep going with what suits you, dont try and please others and most of all make your car your own! You have to drive it/live in it...no fooker else does
Ps you will always get someone who doesnt like your car...life would be boring if we all had standard cars :slayer:
You know youve got a true legend in the making when it does this
My car has been laughed at, pointed at, and rocked but ive kept it for 10 years and i LOVE it!
Im sure there are plenty of people who think 'yellow wheels' look gash, ****e, blah, etc and that the fact that i have never touched my engine makes it 'pointless' but theresone thing you cant argue with - BABYSEI has been around for longer than most of the cars on here and still gets recognised :worship: its a fooking legend.
Keep going with what suits you, dont try and please others and most of all make your car your own! You have to drive it/live in it...no fooker else does
Ps you will always get someone who doesnt like your car...life would be boring if we all had standard cars :slayer:
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but faster cars get there quicker :devil:
Good point. Some lively debate has definitely been started here and that can't be bad. My car was designed by a few blokes/women in Turin and built by a few more in Tychy, and it's pretty much the same as any other Panda.
This man's Punto may have started out the same way but it's now virtually unique. I may not like it and however much he's spent on it, he'll never get his money back if he sells it. But, and it's a big BUT, he's spent thousands of £££ on it and maybe he's caught up in something he finds difficult to stop until it reaches its logical conclusion.
At the end of it all though, it will always be HIS car.
Having said that, It will still never be as individual as mine, I've got a black rubbing strip down the side, (both sides, I'll have you know)colour coded (alright, the only colour FIAT do)seat covers and.....5J factory alloys with 165tyres which are about to be changed for 175s, woo hoo.
You see, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
