Warning car lovers
What has been seen, cannot be unseen. Brain bleach is on back order. Proceed at your own risk, do not view on a full stomach, may cause vomiting.
For your approval, I offer up to you this rather unique example of a customized MGB that a gentleman is offering on eBay.
It’s not too late, close the thread now. Now I say.
Don’t say I did not warn you.
Linky-poo
I tried to warn you.
WTF was he thinking? Kids this is what happens if you do drugs GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
A valiant effort, but it still doesn’t surpass the Sir Vival.
Jethro got a roadster.
Actually, “a shot of ether after a cold night” might work for me, even if the car’s nowhere nearby…
Eh, at least it was a rubber-bumper model, not one of the good ones.
The pics are too small for me to get a really good feel for exactly wtf he did there. I gather that he added a couple extra seats in the back. Hard to tell if he did a good job or not. In any case, I don’t get the outrage. It’s an MG. Not like he destroyed a masterpiece.
I don’t think that was an accident - just like the transvestite hookers never hang out directly under the street lamps.
Zooming the pictures in firefox shows just how horrible the workmanship is. Johnny nailed it Jethro got a roadster.
Any look close at the second picture what is that on the hood? Phaser bank? Photon torpedo launcher?
In the case of Jethro he came up with a zero emissions exhaust system and a gas from water pill if you remember back a bit.
Eh, a Pontiac Aztec is still uglier.
I liked the Aztec. I thought it was a perfectly utilitarian design - unlike pseudo-utilitarian types like the VW Thing - or whatever that unhappy little pile of sheet metal was called. I mean, yes it was ugly from the point of view of just the aesthetics, but you have to look past the sheet metal and into the soul of the machine. {takes long toke, looks pensively into the distance} You know what I’m sayin’ dude?
Anyway, at least with the Aztec or the Honda Crosstour you know there isn’t an extra half ton of Bondo bumping it into the next higher weight class.
Nothing ‘pseudo’ about it. The VW Type 181 ‘Thing’ was an adaptation of the WWII Type 82 Kübelwagen. While the Americans built the Willys MB/Ford GPW ‘jeeps’ with 4WD, the Germans built a RWD scout car. It was not an ‘offroad vehicle’ as we think of them today, but it was light enough for the occupants to move it if it got stuck offroad – where it spent a lot of time. By the time the Type 181 ‘Thing’ came on the scene, the Willys and its successors had proven the utility of 4WD and had cornered the market. It couldn’t compete in the same arena as Jeeps, IHs, Broncos, and the rest. Still, dune buggies were popular at the time, and the Thing was more in line with that form of use.
The Thing was indeed a ‘utilitarian’ vehicle. It just wasn’t the same kind of utility vehicle we Americans are used to.
Only problem with the Thing was having it’s battery slop around under the back seat. Loved that little deathtrap.
My MGB has its batteries under the back ‘seat’.
I give you the Cro-Magnum!
As the owner of more than 23 examples of the machines made in Abingdon, I find this type of customization rises to the level of criminal conduct and will be writing a strongly worded letter to the proper authorities.
MG - Safety Fast!
Fiat Multipla. I win.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a production car with Neanderthal traits.
I sort of liked the Cro-Magnum. :o
The fact that you mention both the Aztec and the Crosstour in the same breath tells me you need to pass what you’re smoking. Both vehicles are fugly looking!
