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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Mr.OmegaMan on 22 January 2015, 21:48:45
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Amateur mechanic spends £15,000 and five years transforming 1990 Ford Granada into exact replica of £1million Zonda supercar (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2921570/Amateur-mechanic-spends-15-000-five-years-transforming-1990-Ford-Granada-exact-replica-1million-Zonda-supercar.html)
I can certainly think of better ways i'd spend my hard earned brass :o :o :o
Far play on taking up such a challenge... Whether it was foolish or brave i'll leave that up to yous ;D
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Found he's YouTube channel... link (https://www.youtube.com/user/Nicktruman/videos)
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Someone needs to buy the DM editors a dictionary with the word "exact" highlighted..
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Just watched this, It sounds healthy :-X
Zonda Inspired Twin turbo Audi V8 filmed 5/1/2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn43nlAQqJA)
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Not sure healthy is the right word either :-\
That said I really couldn't tell the difference...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e97-hWGvatI&feature=youtube_gdata_player (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e97-hWGvatI&feature=youtube_gdata_player) ::)
Not sure that driving it on the road is exactly sensible if it isn't UK road legal either :-X especially if you're being filmed when you do it... ::)
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It didn't look too bad until the interior shots. That was when I nearly fell out of my chair in a combined laughing/coughing fit.
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It didn't look too bad until the interior shots. That was when I nearly fell out of my chair in a combined laughing/coughing fit.
When you say 'interior' do you mean the door shuts or the passenger side of the dash :-\
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(http://s14.postimg.org/l4zbjpe6p/24_F0317_E00000578_0_image_a_27_1421927432444.jpg)
(http://s2.postimg.org/5v2mgv3vt/24_F0327500000578_0_image_a_28_1421927469278.jpg)
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(http://[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/22/24F0317E00000578-0-image-a-27_1421927432444.jpg/img]
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/22/24F0327500000578-0-image-a-28_1421927469278.jpg)
There's more to your post than meets the eye... but where is it ???
Ah ha, there they are... ;D
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It didn't look too bad until the interior shots. That was when I nearly fell out of my chair in a combined laughing/coughing fit.
When you say 'interior' do you mean the door shuts or the passenger side of the dash :-\
Yep looks real good for a "replica" luxury supercar - load of krap ::)
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Looks like he is an upholsterer by trade. ;D ;D ;D
Reminds me of somebody who was detail blind when it came to home decorating. ;D ;D ;D
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For something built in his spare time,and from pictures it looks,reasonably good. :y
I would like to see,some of you do better.
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For something built in his spare time,and from pictures it looks,reasonably good. :y
I would like to see,some of you do better.
I'll second that. ::)
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For something built in his spare time,and from pictures it looks,reasonably good. :y
I would like to see,some of you do better.
Go on just about any kit car forum or magazine and you'll see many, many better examples, all built in peoples garages at home..
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For something built in his spare time,and from pictures it looks,reasonably good. :y
I would like to see,some of you do better.
Go on just about any kit car forum or magazine and you'll see many, many better examples, all built in peoples garages at home..
The same can be said of cars built by professional car manufacturers. ;D
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I think the guy cut his teeth building TVRs in the 1980s. :)
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For something built in his spare time,and from pictures it looks,reasonably good. :y
I would like to see,some of you do better.
Go on just about any kit car forum or magazine and you'll see many, many better examples, all built in peoples garages at home..
The same can be said of cars built by professional car manufacturers. ;D
MK1 Fiat Uno anyone... ;D
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Waste of a good Granny.
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For something built in his spare time,and from pictures it looks,reasonably good. :y
I would like to see,some of you do better.
Go on just about any kit car forum or magazine and you'll see many, many better examples, all built in peoples garages at home..
The same can be said of cars built by professional car manufacturers. ;D
2nded.
But the oof way is to find fault.
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Waste of a good Granny.
Hard to see much Granada left; possibly the front uprights and some switchgear. After all, how many spaceframed, mid-engined V8 Granadas are there?
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During the project he sliced the top off his index finger in the turbo with the digit then shooting out of the exhaust pipe.
He had it shipped to Bahrain - where he worked for a while........
Still don't understand why he had the top of his finger shipped to Bahrain. :-\ ::) ::)
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During the project he sliced the top off his index finger in the turbo with the digit then shooting out of the exhaust pipe.
He had it shipped to Bahrain - where he worked for a while........
Still don't understand why he had the top of his finger shipped to Bahrain. :-\ ::) ::)
;D ;D ;D
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During the project he sliced the top off his index finger in the turbo with the digit then shooting out of the exhaust pipe.
He had it shipped to Bahrain - where he worked for a while........
Still don't understand why he had the top of his finger shipped to Bahrain. :-\ ::) ::)
Presumably it was so they could chop it off again if he misdemeaned... :-\
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For something built in his spare time,and from pictures it looks,reasonably good. :y
I would like to see,some of you do better.
Go on just about any kit car forum or magazine and you'll see many, many better examples, all built in peoples garages at home..
The same can be said of cars built by professional car manufacturers. ;D
2nded.
But the oof way is to find fault.
Sorry Trevor, whilst I agree with your comment (highlighted), must disagree re this car. Ignoring the obvious design differences, the quality of both the paint and the fibreglassing is poor at best, and as for the interior, well he didn't make much of an effort did he? ;) Mechanically looks fair though.