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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.

why do I get the feeling that this thread is only going to end up with people taking the piss out of me.............................

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 deliberately avoided suggesting the Status 365

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..................

mk1 wrote:I deliberately avoided suggesting the Status 365

you wont be saying that when you want a lift to the pub in it

Not really a kit car, but there was a Jaffa Orange near Trowbridge a few years ago.

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..................

Quite handy to have a tow hitch though.

Peter

33JOY wrote:
Quite handy to have a tow hitch though.

Peter

I suppose it gives the recovery people somewhere to attach a tow rope to when they are dragging it out of a ditch................

OMG!!!! Not exactly a kit car but worth a mention all the same !!!

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/ ... iment=true

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.)

Al

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...... )

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!

But isn't the Stimson Scorcher just a 1960/70s of this:

http://www.ridermagazine.com/road-tests ... -test.htm/

I wouldn't thank you for one of those either!

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

Someone with a Stimpson has a friend?????






Al

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?

Beach Buggies should be rear engine (Siva Moonbug)



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