George Collings Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Following on from the thread in Mototome matters- EU to ban modification to cars. Lets have a few crazy mods or stupid use of a vehicle anyone has seen. Here are a few I have seen inthe last 50 odd years. A 105e Anglia with rusted out rear spring shackles that had been repaired by bolting in reinforcement made from an old aluminium VRM plate. Strange to relate that broke and the back axle took over the steering. The car fell off the road. A pair of ex Jaguar wide wheels on the rear axle while the front was standard size. Oh yes I did say front not fronts. It was a Reliant three wheeler. A car with four passenger and aload of camping gear towing a trailer with a 18 ft cabin sailing boat. yet another Reliant three wheeler. Yet another tugger with a Morris 1000 dragging a two wheeled unbraked trailer carrying a Austin A55 van. Good rocker. Start braking at John O Groats and with a bit of luck it might not fall off Lands End. Back in the 70s it was fashionable to jack up the rear of cars to make them look like a dragster. This was usually done with longer rear shackles. On dragsters it raised the centre of gravity improving wight tranfer onto the rear driving wheels. On a road car the reverse happened .weight came off the back wheels under braking resulting in a rear wheel skid ,the car broadsiding with the driver having to cope with a body flopping about on the long shackles. Nowadays its mostly stupid body kits that are so low they get ripped off by kerbs or protruding manhole covers. Bikes with next to no silencers are downright anti social. saw a BMW boxer recently horribly hacked into a cafe racer with straight pipes with no silencer. Sounded awful as well as plain noisey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laimeduck Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Probably my Spitsaab named "Sigrid" ...... T'was a bu**er to get her through the tunnel toll booths but she did her mission to Stalag Luft III via the Mohne Dam .... & returned unscathed! The pilots were however tired & emotional *-) *-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowtelse2do Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Wonder if it will take off. :-D Chap in JEC has a XJS that looks like a miniature JCB and all in yellow. Does a lot for charity ;-) Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Collings Posted September 10, 2012 Author Share Posted September 10, 2012 At first I thought it was a Saab Draken but then realised it was part Spitfire going by the eliptical wing tipsand tail fin. Presumably it performed best at low altitude missions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laimeduck Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 George Collings - 2012-09-10 8:48 PM Presumably it performed best at low altitude missions. Clipped cropped & clapped version available soon! :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliveH Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 One of my sons friends came round with an Escort that had sounded OK when I first saw it but on this occaision sounded really rough and tappety. But all the plonker wanted to show us was the new radio and boom box he had installed - not my cup of tea at all and so i was distinctly unimpressed. We said lets have a look at the engine because it sounded terrible! Checked the dipstick (the one in the engine bay - not the driver) and not a drop of oil on it. The only oil we had was old oil from my vehicle that I had not yet dispossed off. So in desperation we put that in up to the level mark. Instantly the engine sounded better - but the plonker had never checked the engine at all and was more interested in silly modifications and boom boxes rather than spending money on the basics What a plonker We end up having draconian laws like this one because of idiots like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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