Ugliest Mini Based Kit Car Nominations
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Ugliest Mini Based Kit Car Nominations
Following a suggestion by Goff, I am pleased to be able to open the 2014 "Ugliest Mini Based Kit Car" Awards.
I look forward to receiving your nominations.
Here's a couple to start with.
Yak by name, Yak by nature
Stimson "Scorcher" only suitable for burning.
I look forward to receiving your nominations.
Here's a couple to start with.
Yak by name, Yak by nature
Stimson "Scorcher" only suitable for burning.
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Re: Ugliest Mini Based Kit Car Nominations
why do I get the feeling that this thread is only going to end up with people taking the piss out of me.............................
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Is it wrong that I actually like both of the nominations so far?? lol
I've always kind of like the Yak and the Stimpson Scorcher is just so weird I want one!
I've always kind of like the Yak and the Stimpson Scorcher is just so weird I want one!
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minitravellerman wrote:Stimpson Scorcher is just so weird I want one!
the seatbelts fitted to that simpson scorcher must be the most useless safety feature ever fitted to any vehicle ever in the history of wheeled transport..................
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you wont be saying that when you want a lift to the pub in itmk1 wrote:I deliberately avoided suggesting the Status 365
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Re: Ugliest Mini Based Kit Car Nominations
Not really a kit car, but there was a Jaffa Orange near Trowbridge a few years ago.
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Quite handy to have a tow hitch though.rich@minispares.com wrote:minitravellerman wrote:Stimpson Scorcher is just so weird I want one!
the seatbelts fitted to that simpson scorcher must be the most useless safety feature ever fitted to any vehicle ever in the history of wheeled transport..................
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I suppose it gives the recovery people somewhere to attach a tow rope to when they are dragging it out of a ditch................33JOY wrote:
Quite handy to have a tow hitch though.
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Re: Ugliest Mini Based Kit Car Nominations
OMG!!!! Not exactly a kit car but worth a mention all the same !!!
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/ ... iment=true
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/ ... iment=true
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I recon Mark's been nobbled! Rich has got to him.
He's posted up 3 GRP horrors, and not a single door to be seen!
Why? I can only assume he's been bribed into protecting Rich from anyone mentioning his weird fascination for the fundamental building block of the UK kit car industry, the Marina door handle. (Such is Rich's obsession with this humble piece of automotive ironmongery that he snapped up the designer's own car, just to hold the wheel which held the pencil that drew the rectangle that became the handle...... )
What next, a Biota?
(Oh, and the Stimpson Scortcher is perhaps unique in being the only vehicle ever built which doesn't have a single angle which is attractive. Even as one disappears into the distance, the horror of it remains seared into your consciousness.)
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He's posted up 3 GRP horrors, and not a single door to be seen!
Why? I can only assume he's been bribed into protecting Rich from anyone mentioning his weird fascination for the fundamental building block of the UK kit car industry, the Marina door handle. (Such is Rich's obsession with this humble piece of automotive ironmongery that he snapped up the designer's own car, just to hold the wheel which held the pencil that drew the rectangle that became the handle...... )
What next, a Biota?
(Oh, and the Stimpson Scortcher is perhaps unique in being the only vehicle ever built which doesn't have a single angle which is attractive. Even as one disappears into the distance, the horror of it remains seared into your consciousness.)
Al
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in an ideal world the royalties for the design of the Wilmot breeden door handle should have come with that mini - I would have been quids in then!Pandora wrote:
Why? I can only assume he's been bribed into protecting Rich from anyone mentioning his weird fascination for the fundamental building block of the UK kit car industry, the Marina door handle. (Such is Rich's obsession with this humble piece of automotive ironmongery that he snapped up the designer's own car, just to hold the wheel which held the pencil that drew the rectangle that became the handle...... )
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Re: Ugliest Mini Based Kit Car Nominations
But isn't the Stimson Scorcher just a 1960/70s of this:
http://www.ridermagazine.com/road-tests ... -test.htm/
http://www.ridermagazine.com/road-tests ... -test.htm/
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Re: Ugliest Mini Based Kit Car Nominations
Time to own up I nearly got an auto scorcher a few years back and a local boat builders had one
as a tug for the boats on trailers,oh and my mates got a stimson minibug project
as a tug for the boats on trailers,oh and my mates got a stimson minibug project
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Re: Ugliest Mini Based Kit Car Nominations
So you've wasted your cash on kit, why not waste some more on 2 extra wheels?
Not even the Banana splits would be seen driving this!
What is it with grp fumes?
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Beach Buggies should be rear engine (Siva Moonbug)
Pontiffs need only apply
Pontiffs need only apply