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rustybugkiller
rustybugkiller Dork
5/5/21 7:38 p.m.

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
5/5/21 7:47 p.m.

It's a very well executed abomination.  

NOHOME
NOHOME MegaDork
5/5/21 7:51 p.m.

Cause you got some mad bodywork skills and you CAN? 

If you want attention, thatldo

Duke
Duke MegaDork
5/5/21 8:40 p.m.

Poor Miatas. I mean I know they made a million of them but each one is special and none of them deserve that.

Even if it was a wreck, donate its organs that others might live, and bury the remains with dignity and honor.

 

JThw8
JThw8 UltimaDork
5/5/21 8:47 p.m.

Yet another example of a skilled craftsman who lacks any sense of design

David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
5/5/21 10:09 p.m.

Holy wow! So '57 Chevy up front but kinda '60 Chevy out back? 

ShawnG
ShawnG UltimaDork
5/5/21 10:43 p.m.

That's a "use what you have lying around" build.

Torkel
Torkel Reader
5/6/21 2:10 a.m.

Grandpa to grandson: Dear... are you seeing what I am seeing here?

Grandson: Yes, Grandpa. Don't worry, it IS what you think it is. 

Grandpa: Thank you. I thought I had finally slipped over the edge and went full senile there, for a while. 

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
5/6/21 7:00 a.m.

Are you guys kvetching because it's just ugly or that he wrapped it around a Miotter?

NickD
NickD MegaDork
5/6/21 7:32 a.m.
914Driver said:

Are you guys kvetching because it's just ugly or that he wrapped it around a Miotter?

Yes.

Duke
Duke MegaDork
5/6/21 7:43 a.m.
914Driver said:

Are you guys kvetching because it's just ugly or that he wrapped it around a Miotter?

The life of Old El Paso 'taco girl' ad Mia Agraviador now

pres589 (djronnebaum)
pres589 (djronnebaum) UltimaDork
5/6/21 8:26 a.m.

Old people like pills too, they're not just for the kids these days.

Pete. (l33t FS)
Pete. (l33t FS) MegaDork
5/6/21 11:21 a.m.
David S. Wallens said:

Holy wow! So '57 Chevy up front but kinda '60 Chevy out back? 

It's looking California, but feeling Minnesota?

trucke
trucke SuperDork
5/6/21 1:36 p.m.

Does it float?

 

mtn
mtn MegaDork
5/6/21 2:54 p.m.

Reverse the black and orange and practice your Adam West impression and it might work.

But... As it is, as Appleseed said, it wasn't the execution but the idea on this one.

Pete Gossett (Forum Supporter)
Pete Gossett (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
5/6/21 3:52 p.m.

Once again I wish I had the resources to open a museum of automotive atrocities, because I'd proudly buy this to put on display. 

Woody (Forum Supportum)
Woody (Forum Supportum) MegaDork
5/6/21 4:22 p.m.

"Style Bar" and seat covers...ugh.

JoeTR6
JoeTR6 Dork
5/6/21 5:35 p.m.
trucke said:

Does it float?

 

We could always try.

clutchsmoke
clutchsmoke UltraDork
5/6/21 5:47 p.m.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:
David S. Wallens said:

Holy wow! So '57 Chevy up front but kinda '60 Chevy out back? 

It's looking California, but feeling Minnesota?

Damn I love that song.

cfvwtuner
cfvwtuner New Reader
5/7/21 6:22 a.m.

Saw one yesterday.   Miata, looked like it had the top up.  Nope, it was a hardtop with a vinyl covering to look like a soft top.  Then because he didn't like the top, there was a sunroof cut into the hard top.  I was confused

Duke
Duke MegaDork
5/7/21 9:01 a.m.
cfvwtuner said:

Saw one yesterday.   Miata, looked like it had the top up.  Nope, it was a hardtop with a vinyl covering to look like a soft top.  Then because he didn't like the top, there was a sunroof cut into the hard top.  I was confused

W the actual B?

 

Antihero (Forum Supporter)
Antihero (Forum Supporter) UberDork
5/7/21 9:09 a.m.
JoeTR6 said:
trucke said:

Does it float?

 

We could always try.

And if it sinks who really cares?

TheRX7Project
TheRX7Project HalfDork
5/8/21 6:47 a.m.
Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:
JoeTR6 said:
trucke said:

Does it float?

 

We could always try.

And if it sinks who really cares?

Probably the local Department of Natural Resources

TheRX7Project
TheRX7Project HalfDork
5/8/21 7:45 a.m.

I can't stop looking at this and wondering how they made te '57 nose fit, while appearing proportionally unchanged, yet the '60 rear is clearly quite narrowed and the Miata portion is also unchanged.

Pete. (l33t FS)
Pete. (l33t FS) MegaDork
5/8/21 8:21 a.m.
TheRX7Project said:

I can't stop looking at this and wondering how they made te '57 nose fit, while appearing proportionally unchanged, yet the '60 rear is clearly quite narrowed and the Miata portion is also unchanged.

Big cars were a lot smaller than they are now, which helps.  People of a certain age think old cars = big and new cars = small, but cars kinda started out smallish and grew ever larger until just about exactly 1977, when everything got reset a bit.

I spent some time in a '56 a ways back (big block powered, high compression big cam, and I was tuning the 700-R4's shiftpoints with governor weight hokey-pokey) and was shocked at how small it was.

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