Fecking brilliant idea......
Chris, Dan, what are you doing next weekend?

Or, you could do this with an Anglia 105e. :cool:

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Hmm, good find. I like that

Me too
I bet it would look great in Andy's rusty paint

That gives me an idea - Lots of Reliants get their body removed to become trikes.
Cheap fibreglass body to chop dump it on a locost chassis

Like the colour. Would have it in gloss easier to wipe clean. Like the roofline as well. Its where they say the modern fiesta gets its window shape from. The diagonal line pointing to the rear screen

Surely this

http://www.mad4wheels.com/webpics/hi...n_001_7275.jpg

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Can be made for mx5?

It has a similar windscreen and I can see some of the mx250 kit being re used to form this

I agree maz mx250 could be modified quite easily to get this shape

The shineyness is also giving me naughty thoughts about chrome wrapping my mx250.......nah bad idea?

Maybe a mk2 would be better that or a z3. The lighting area is limited on the mk1 as I found out with the zag build

Not sure how feasible this would be, but could Chris create a conversion of a Jaguar XJS along the lines of the Eventer estate ('shooting brake'). Loads of XJS' around to use as donor cars.

David

Go for it!

I have been told by everyone and his dog that chrome wrapping the 250 would be impossible due to the complex curves :sad: I would have mine done in a heart beat if I could.

:yo:

From what I have read.....some chrome wraps have more stretch than others? I have seen a cobra kit car chrome wrapped and surely they are equally complex?
From what I have seen, the trick is to have joins in certain places such as using stripes to divide the car in two. And all the recess like headlights vents etc have to be separate but invisible joins using knifeless tape.

I have tried the cheap chrome wrap as found on ebay. It has very little stretch even when heated up. Heat it too much and stretch it, it pulls apart leaving a grey finish. There is some American stuff called Conform Chrome I think, which will work but costs a fortune.

How about a Fiat Dino Spyder on an MX5? The dimensions of both cars are very close, the wheelbase only 15mm longer on the Fiat.

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I have had this in mind for sometime using an XJS cabriolet and grafting a scimitar SE5 or SE6 rear top half on to it. I did have a sketch somewhere, one of my retirement projects. The annoying thing is a chucked away an SE5 body when I started the G46. Any one got the rea top half of an SE6 SE
6 they don't want?

Have you seen this beauty -


http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=1541327

Oxford

I hadn't seen that wow! thats exactly what I had in mind see I can't be the only ingenious out there!

From my experience of the headlight headache it might be best to try it on a mk2. The doors are different but gives you space to put lights where you need them. With the fiat Dino idea that is.

If you think about it if the Ferrari 360,430,458 didn't have their engine in the back they would be hatchbacks too. The maserati reminded of this fact.

I was thinking the other day what would an Alfa gtv look like with a Chevrolet Camaro roofline from the same era look using the gtv swage line down.

That Scimtar is very nice. Didn't Chris have an Aston front end that he took from an MX5? Shouldn't take him more than a few hours to get it to fit a Scimitar. Should be a very easy build as it's just a front end. He must be looking for a new project because he must have finished the 275 by now. He has gone very quiet which means his probably up to no good!

I reckon I could have a go at one of these myself.

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Where to start
 

Taking part in the MM2016 I got some ideas what I like:

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Where to start
 

Taking part in the MM2016 I got some ideas what I like to drive to the coffee shop on a sunday

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1969 aston martin db8 s vantage. In dark metalic blue. Built on a z3/z4 convertible. Not sure how that would look overlayed on them.

Anyone seen this Mazda RX7 bodykit from Japan ?
Reminds me a little of a mid 70´s Lancia or Maserati.

http://image.superstreetonline.com/f...ont-bumper.jpg

Looks like the old Mazda rx4, I think that's the idea

Wondering if any Mazda NC body conversions in the works??

I love that. Not the colour though.

How about something similar to the new Bristol Bullet.
Z3 or Z4 based with a cut-down windscreen. (just a thought)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/imag...bKxjA71-ak.jpg

Windscreen on modern convertibles is structural, (roll over), so if you chop it, its modified structure.....then IVA.....

plus the Bristol looks fugly

IMHO

Agreed, and why is one headlight bigger than the other or is it my eyes :twitch:

Have Bristol ever built a nice looking car?

Late 40's Bristol 400 is as good as it gets, I'm afraid. They just got fuglier and fuglier from there.

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There were a few streamliiners that look nice from some angles but were never fully resolved designs to my eyes -

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Both of those look more like cars from other manufacturers - BMW and Bugatti - than original designs though.

Kits, eh?

Any thoughts on the roof line of the Lamborghini flying star

Always nice to see something new... For me it looks better from some angles than others. First impressions are that the rear screen is too narrow? The headlights are, err interesting as well.

I suppose I'm biased but the way roof flows with the cars wings works for me as a shooting brake roof

If you were to apply the same roof to a number of shooting breaks I think it would work. The gradually tilting roof and the smaller rear window makes it sporty and sleek and a bigger boot for fishing gear