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Is that the car equivalent of streetfightering?
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Mussels wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 7:13 am Is that the car equivalent of streetfightering?
No, thats the car equivqlent of someone with too much time and money with absolutely no sense of taste, or sense....
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I've owned worse...

I once owned a mini metro pick up conversion... :oops:
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What that needs is a couple of big orange stripes over the top!
Or possibly some swan vestas and a gallon of 4☆
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That's something they do in one of the Nordics.

There's a specific class of license that 16 years olds can hold, but it has to only have two seats and have a limited speed, so normal cars get converted in to these bastardised pickup things. They call them EPA Traktors.
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Wreckless Rat wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:00 am I've owned worse...

I once owned a mini metro pick up conversion... :oops:
:) Photo? :)
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Horse wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:29 am
Wreckless Rat wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:00 am I've owned worse...

I once owned a mini metro pick up conversion... :oops:
:) Photo? :)
I don't have one of mine, but it pretty much looked like this - same colour too.... But mine had a ply and stained hardwood buck lining.... :oops:
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Wreckless Rat wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:43 am
Horse wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:29 am
Wreckless Rat wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:00 am I've owned worse...

I once owned a mini metro pick up conversion... :oops:
:) Photo? :)
I don't have one of mine, but it pretty much looked like this - same colour too.... But mine had a ply and stained hardwood buck lining.... :oops:
As the article says, looks better than it should.
Even bland can be a type of character :wave:
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The Escort is massively wrong, but somehow right.
Has he made the windows look smaller by painting the glass?

As for Wratty's metro pick up - what do you expect from Norfolk?
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Dunt look bad to me,then again wagons don't exactly flick my switch.

I'd bet Nik Samson would like that!
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Skub wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 3:44 pm I'd bet Nik Samson would like that!
Anyone who chooses to live in the Fens has strange taste
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Horse wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 12:29 pm As the article says, looks better than it should.
It was a POS - but it was cheap, and I had this idea (hahaha) it would be sort of functional... You could fit one bale of straw in it, just. Need at least a couple of bales of straw when fingering your sister....
Julian_Boolean wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 1:22 pm As for Wratty's metro pick up - what do you expect from Norfolk?
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David wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 7:54 am
Mussels wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 7:13 am Is that the car equivalent of streetfightering?
No, thats the car equivqlent of someone with too much time and money with absolutely no sense of taste, or sense....

Yeah, Streetfightering.
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A mate of mine had a Mini Pickup back in the early 80's, he bought it already "done". It had a nicely sorted 1275 motor in it,
It had a wooden floor in the "bed" and a quality cover, a subtle paint job and 10" revolution wheels. Noice! :)

2 things I vivdly remember about were that the sound deadening in it was aces as the cab was so small. Also, because it was a pick up, it was even lighter at the back than a normal mini so the back end would get very lively, unusual for a FWD car, but familiar to anyone who drove a mini enthusiastically :) I've always fancied one.

Solid looking ones are being advertised for over £15k on the bay... :(
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G.P wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 6:52 pmt was even lighter at the back than a normal mini so the back end would get very lively,
Guy I knew had a Berkley, built IIRC with a 350cc two stroke engine.

Some wag had replaced that with an 850 mini subframe. Under firm acceleration it would sit still with its wheels spinning.
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I think the Metro looked better.
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Julian_Boolean wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 1:22 pm The Escort is massively wrong, but somehow right.
Has he made the windows look smaller by painting the glass?

As for Wratty's metro pick up - what do you expect from Norfolk?
I think it was from a van...different roof line.
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Add a lightbar or 2, and I could see that on my drive