what'S your opinion

[overider]

I saw this on ebay.com I ask the seller to send his story to minor monthly which I believe he did I personally think this has to be one of the best looking moggy ever. What do you think?

[bmcecosse]

The Morris 8 Series E front light conversion is interesting - when I had an 8E I proudly converted it the other way - to upright lights - but then I wanted to see at night! the pic from the rear is too small for me to see any detail - and yes i think it looks great - but does it have any suspension travel ??

[overider]

The front lights are from a Mecedes E-class I believe. the car had a reserve of $20,000 us.

[bigginger]

Interesting - and not to my taste at all

[overider]

Yes it has suspension

[Matt]

Give us a link then ;)

Im not sure I like it, its a bit like the people making classic minis look like the BMW ones :s

[overider]

sorry no link only my personal photos it was featured in Minor monthly some time ago and was on us e-bay last may.

[overider]

The Minor monthly edition was June 2007 titled cream of the crop. This Moggy has a Buick 3.8 V6 in it anda Buik 350 3-speed auto gearbox front suspention off a mustang mkll. It even has air bags

[Alec]

Hello all,

simply, no thank you.

Alec

[DanRodd]

well,quite simply,its not a Minor anymore,so no i dont like it,looks like one of those cars that was built to see if it could be done,almost a bit like the modern day minor built by the Brum minor centre

[overider]

Hello all,

simply, no thank you.

Alec

Why?

[bigginger]

Beacause (for me at any rate) an awful lot of the appealing bits of the design have been smoothed over and de-charactered (grille, headlights) and some truly horrible bits put on (mirrors, wheels)

[chickenjohn]

I'm not restoring Dibble to look like that!

If I was to buy that car, i'd start at the price of a relevant condition convertible (B), then work out how much in parts and paint would be needed to get it back to standard(A), then take A from B and offer the result C.

[Alec]

Hello Overider,

"Why?",

because it is far too visually modified, I prefer cars to look like they are rather than a caricature. I do like performance modified cars but if they retain their 'standard' appearance that is a bonus. Understated rather than overstated, a wolf in sheep's clothing is far more fun.

Alec

[Kevin]

Its to Beetle like for me, and if I remember one of the specialists did a similar front wing conversion using Beetle headlamps and that didnt prove to be much of a seller and I dont remember seeing one apart from their publicity one.

[Judge]

I saw this on ebay.com I ask the seller to send his story to minor monthly

Why not send more stories like this to Minor Matters as well, after all it is the official club magazine.

[overider]

I can understand the purest amongst us and i too like an unmolested moggy. But if ever there was a moden day moggy i would want it to look like this. This is a good example of a moggy with all the mod cons with lots of power and stopping capabilaties to match. and without any masive changes to its appearance.

[overider]

I sent this exact story to Minor matters by e-mail befor i asked pat the owner to send it to Minor monthley and Minor matters deleted the e-mail without even opening it.

[alex_holden]

How do you know they deleted the submission?

Personally I think the car is pretty ugly, particularly the excessively lowered suspension.

[overider]

I got a read reciept that said mail deleted without being opened