225 Sport like this, on an MX5
Wheelbase okay., MX% a bit wider though. Coupe!
Think TR-4 windscreen and Karmann Ghia rear glass, sliding windows like the SWB.
http://www.supercars.net/blog/1952-f...sport-gallery/

Sammio front end too.

The Vignale version here:

https://video.search.yahoo.com/video...t=mozilla&tt=b

Some peple have too much money.
While others are making the humble MR2 look like a lambo
These guys are making their lambo look like the batmobile from the latest computer game
In full carbon fibre and the details are all there this must cost a fortune.

https://youtu.be/fQUTjm3iXMk

Back on the subject of "what I would like Chris to build me"


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And this

http://assets.blog.hemmings.com/wp-c...Shark_1500.jpg

Sorry my hyperlinks fail

Lovely shark - here's a different (Covington - Renault) "shark" -

http://assets.blog.hemmings.com/wp-c...nShark_700.jpg

and yet another predatory fish, the Manta Ray:

http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Manta_Ray

Perhaps Chris could make up a deep sea package?
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What could work on a mk3 mr2.ideas? I did see a lambo kit made on it with optional windscreen. But they don't seem to be at any of the shows so never know whether to trust sites like that. Maybe lotus exige shell. Panels are around 3k as original not sure what the difference in dimensions would be. Maybe a stretched lancia stratos more leg room and wipers that don't come off at high speed like the one on top gear

I have my suspicions that Clarkson started out to prove his preconceived notion that anything built with spanners by a man in a shed would be useless. The wiper coming off was probably a setup, and if you stand on the brakes while cornering in a short-wheelbase car it's not going to stop in a straight line.

Funnily enough, when Hammond and May tested a real Stratos they loved it, even though it's acknowledged as being one of the most difficult cars to drive on the road, in the world...

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...7o0&ajaxhist=0 Toyota mr2 (mr-s)
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...do0&ajaxhist=0Porsche 919
Screen looks right proportions are good

People have made Ferrari reps from it and panels that bolt on like the z3 . I was just thinking of finding panels from a car that exists and shortening them to fit. Spose its finding a crashed ferrari/porsche with panels that are going cheap. Standard they don't really inspire but with a new shell would look quite awesome. Plus no bonding if it just bolts using the original bolt points. Also looked at the lotus m100 but some might say it wrong to change the shape . Always reminded me of a lambo. Not sure why. Minus the pop up lights and tailights

Posted this photo on the new Sammio Spyder thread "next door" and thought I'd add it to this thread too.

1964 CD Panhard Le Mans

http://www.autodrome.fr/CD-Panhard_L...rome-Paris.jpg

Very low rocket.

Mmmm lovely, would make interesting reactions methinks

I would love this front end. An S2 Cobra front bumper from Japan.

There doesn't appear to be a UK importer. There is a US one who will ship to the UK. Overall cost would be around £1000.

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s...-Car-Front.jpg

How about this? Or would this just be a Moss Mamba replica?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alfa-Romeo...IAAOSw3mpXNz3Y

Here's a thought. Mix an Alfa Romeo 105 coupe with an Alfa Romeo Montréal. What do you get

1953 ASTON MARTIN DB3S please


https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7371/...5882ce1a_c.jpg

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7610/...2298bcf1_b.jpg

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7520/...6532b220_c.jpg

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7613/...6c39fa02_z.jpg

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/...ebb6b00b_c.jpg

This one is on sale at auction today with a £6-7m estimate :scared::scared::scared::scared::scared:

Here you go Eric

http://race-car-replicas.com/rcr-db3s/

Looking at the seat design, it takes bigger balls to be a driver than it does to be the navigator:icon_lol:

Good for storage . Nut and bolts

Good find!!

The one on auction today went for £5m, bargain!

Looks like it would be a bottom up build, probably much more difficult for me, the rebody 250swb kit is about as far as my skill set goes. Will just dream for now.

A company in Norfolk does replica kits of the DBR/1 -

http://www.asmotorsport.co.uk/index.html

They don't appear to publish their prices but they were at Goodwood Revival the last time I went. They do a 'basic' fibreglass body kit and a 'deluxe' all alloy body kit. From memory the basic kit was seventy grand and the deluxe was a hundred and twenty thousand pounds. :bolt:

Nice cars though.

When I spoke to the guys doing the DBR1 they recommended the glass fibre body if I was planning on using the car and the alloy body if it was just for showing. The reasoning being that the alloy body will dent more easily and all repairs are more difficult. Nice guys but frightening prices

I don't know how they manage this..... I'll try to explain my logic in making that statement: They appear to be registered using old Jaguar registration marks - however they have new chassis and bodies. In addition they are produced by a manufacturer (cf Amateur built) so require a tighter set of emission numbers, unless this has been achieved by adding a catalyst of some sort (I guess that's possible) although they are running carbs, which makes this all more difficult. Hmm - Manufacturer treated more favourably than amateur... who knows?

I've often wondered about their registration process myself. It possibly falls into the 'Get an age related number plate' category below -

https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registrat...erted-vehicles

...meaning that so long as you use at least two major components, engine, gearbox, rear axle perhaps from a donor Jag and fit them to a brand new chassis you can get a plate that reflects the age as the donor components. I guess it needs IVA though.

DBR1 here for a Miata
http://www.mevltd.co.uk/kit-cars/mev-replicar

I understand that once it has a new chassis the points/ new components is irrelevant - Maybe I'm wrong? reading the above linked, I am wrong

Iso griffo has nice lines . Not sure on donor possibly a scimitar or z3

DBR1 here for a Miata
http://www.mevltd.co.uk/kit-cars/mev-replicar

I saw one of those on the MEV stand as was very unimpressed. The lines really didn't work and it screams KIT CAR

Yep. Nice thing bout the chassis they do is you can put another shell on. Was looking to do that with the Alfa panels I got but will have to wait for 4 years before I can do that. The chassis is about 2k then gotta transfer the mechanicals and drive gear suspension. Then sort some sort of floor panels . Would need bout 9k to do the basics that's without paint or windscreens

And typically with MEV, no mention of IVA and how it would be passed.

Their price list for 2015 is on their site for download basic build in grp is £55k...If you all metal instead add 20k.

What about this: Jenson Healey gt as a donor for something Ferrari based, probably 250 California, it seems to have the right proportions and the windscreen looks suitably period

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...sen_healey.jpg

Over 52,700 views and counting. There are a lot of us dreamers.

Yep have been for a while.

Had an idea but that's all it is. Take an Alfa gt 105. Take a iso grifo and use the roofline of the grifo and place between the wings of the GT. Bit like an American car called a rambler coupe. The roofline finishes into the boot Lid end like grifo.

Not keen on that as it mixes the sensual lines of the Iso with the angular 105.
If you want to go nuts, how about Anglia (100E) roof on the Alfa 105 bodyshell.
Chop the roof, section the body, Integrale arches.......

Chris, Dan, you busy this weekend 😉

Thing with all the chopping and changing is getting it right - I think this is where Chris has an eye for it and I don't.
It's all too easy to think Hmm, "I like the look of a triumph herald and also like the Morris minor - I'll graft the rear of a herald onto the front of a minor" :nod:

Well if simplified it by having the iso roofline going into the boot with its tilted boot and the wings of the Alfa gt and door line and swage line. And width of the iso . The tailights of the gtv onto iso.Italian muscle with harder lines of the GT. The side profile of the GT is quite rounded. That's why I mentioned the rambler it has a what the back would look like without the large glass panel of the ISO

If you look at a 1965 rambler marlin not the side window but from the back and imagine the tops of the GT wings and swage line. The roof isn't hard or sharp. Bit like the iso but instead of the glass at the back it would be a solid shape with rear screen. Yes triumph equals hard and Morris curvy.