Highly modernized minor - found on another forum

[Matt Tomkins]

http://mudsnow.16.forumer.com/viewtopic ... 50a65015b8

thought this would be of interest here - looks like one heck of a car, though not my cup of tea

[Nuffles]

He's doing quite a job. Should be an awesome car when it's done. It's got an epic stance from almost every angle too, but especially from the back

[simona1]

how can it be legal to do that its basically a cut and shut god forbid if he had a crash at speed and surely his insurance would be sky high thats if he tells them the truth, and I wonder if he claims the free road tax for it.
Not my cup of tea I'm afraid.

[chrisryder]

having read his posts on various forums it is primarily a competition car, and he is well aware it'll be in for an SVA when it's done, so it'll end up on a q-plate and he will pay his tax. it's more nissan than minor anyway, so if he were to keep the reg it'd probably be on the reg of the nissan!

[d_harris]

That one has done the rounds before, its quite an interesting build

[rayofleamington]

I'm really hoping to see that car in the steel one day - I had wondered what happened to it since I saw that forum post in 2007.
There were a few unpleasant comments on the club site from a couple of posters, so unfortunately he didn't hang around on this forum.

As for cut-n-shut - yes it is. There is nothing techically wrong with doing that as long as the job is done well. It's actually what all the major car manufacturers do in early development of a new car... CAE helps the design process a lot, but if you want to know how something drives, then you need to drive it.