Emdee - Hero

Haha YES!! I love it.

hahaha ;D

Wow, I'm touched!

The project (The Hypnotoad or just The Toad) is still quite young (had her about 5 or 6 weeks) and I was hoping to get her looking a bit better before posting too many snaps (although I've not done a build thread because it's not retro at all), but I suppose it wont hurt to post a couple.

HOWEVER

I must admit though the struts and springs* are still in the boot and she is actually on photoshopped lows in that pic. I was hoping to get them on before too long but I can see I will have to post some std ride height ones!

Once again I am touched with your response, I even got a pm from MM about that pic but when I replied I mentioned photoshopped lows and he never responded - I think the idea was insulting! I do feel a bit guilty about that. Like I say the lowered shocks and springs* are in the boot and ready so it wont be long.

I'll be heading off on a road trip to the Czech republic in the old girl in a few weeks so I will be hitting the Nurburgring on the way home. That should be fun, hopefully I will be strong enough to make it back without A framing any Czech tat. The absence of a towbar should help here.

said pics (and yes I have been getting nosebleeds):







Thanks again for the thread, it just about makes up for all the stick I've been getting from my mates!

I'll try and do it some justice ASAP, got a few parts today and should have some better pics very soon.



*Big thanks to NoFrills for the struts and springs, what a legend, at £35 I surely can't go wrong!

Sorry Dude, I didn't mean not to respond at all, I've just been a bit hectic with house stuff, millions of phone calls, getting car stuff sorted for about seven cars, the gathering to organise, the unit to sort, dog problems and normal life!

In fact I've been on the phone raving about it with Matt (S/Stylz) and also this morning with BiAS where we 'relived' the time we'd planned out an epic Multipla just like Matt & I had done a good few times previously.

Yours hits the nail on the head. Full on, square on. ;D

I think Matt, Ian & I are all agreed that it's just awesome.

Photoshop or not, it looks amazing and is every bit at home here as any other car. You call it modern, I call it perfect RR fodder. You call it 'not worthy', I disagree.

It's the vision you've had to turn the car into something that quite literally has me salivating and envious that you've gone and done it.

I am a big, no, a HUGE sucker for underdog cars (I am sure that Matt and Ian are too based on all the conversations and 'planned' cars we've hypothetically built from scratch in our imaginations) and you've managed to take something that many people despise and turn it into something that will really make people question what makes a car cool or not? Yours is certainly cool. Very.

So the ride height is a bit higher in real life than the original photo? Who's counting? It looks simply fab from every ange. The wheel choice, the colour, the current stance. I'd roll it and roll it with pride.




I hope you don't mind but I've pasted my original PM below so that people can see what I wrote. I stand by every word...even the title!

Title of PM to Emdee: "I love you...."

"....please don't take that the wrong way, but I do.

The reason for the outburst of affection?

Because of that photo of your Multipla. Or even more accurately because of that Multipla.

It's awesome, just totally 100% bloody awesome. Please tell me it's real and not a photoshop? I've looked at the photo for ages and keep going back to look at it because it's just so damn cool. If it's real (and I dearly hope it is) then you have just acheived legend status.

If it's not real (I'm not entertaining that thought) then you have to make it happen pronto.

Seriously, you have taken one of my 'wishlist' cars and made it look how I imagined it would in my mind. I've always hated it when people slag them off (about 99% of the population) but I always thought they had SOOO much potential. I am so glad you did, and that you did (if that makes sense?)

Matt (Stealthstylz) and I have talked numerous times about how cool it would be to give one the treatment. It was going to happen one day - we had planned it all out but due to the current list of projects I've got on the go (approx triple the amount than anyone outside A52 knows about!) it wasn't going to happen for a while. I don't need to now because you've gone and created the perfect Multipla, the perfect modern.

I'm so damn glad someone has not only gone and done it, but done it so well. It blew me away when I saw the picture the other day and just had to ring Matt to tell him. He was just about to ring me at the same time because he'd just seen it and felt he had to tell me.

Hero/legend/'potential' spotting God - you've made my month by a long way and I really cannot wait to see more of it (big hint at getting you to send me some more pics ) It's people like you that make RR so flipping awesome.

Thank you. Thank you...and thank you.

A very happy Bruce."

Like I say, sorry for not responding and it certainly wasn't because I was insulted - far from it. I've been thinking about this car so much since you sent the photos. My fave car on RR for a long time. It's just aweosme!

I like a Multipla... Weird, but true... ;D

Wow, thanks guys that's some high praise, chuffed is not the word.

You will have problems with it catching; my girlfriend's parents have one on standard but slightly tired suspension and it catches all the time with anything more than about 2 people in it. Speed humps, potholes, even sharply cambered road. Unfortunately I think it's the fuel tank that sits lowest too.

Not to rain on your parade though, I think it looks mint . Just something to watch out for and think about, I don't know how much space there is to relocate things or raise them up.

ahhhhh slutton they run the same bin system as us the copy cats
Still not too far lol South London's one big suburban mass anyway ;D

loving the name hypnotoad - perfect for it, it just transfixes everyones gaze as you drive it no doubt (and its a Futurama reference, even more win!!)

This works, it makes it look like a civilian version of some obscure military vehicle now.

It also works because it reminds me of one of my favourite things that now I live nearly in the countryside I must purchase: