The "I SOOOO want to do this" thread

[Mystery Machine]

The rules are simple:

• Find a really cool "OOOFF I'd LOVE to build one like that" image/picture of a car then find a 'stock' version of said car for sale.
  
  
• Alternatively, find a car currently for sale that you really like or would really love to modify then find a "Now, that's how I'd do it" picture of said car.
  
  
• You *MUST* put a picture up of the 'stock' car and also of the 'how I'd do it' car. Without a picture of each, you have completely failed at this! DON'T BE LAZY and just list the car!!
  
  
• The 'stock' car must currently be for sale - eBay, Car & Classic, Gumtree, Autotrader (UK, US, OZ, wherever? UK preferred for UK people etc...). Money no obejct, this is just for fun. Sometimes the more obscure the better.
  
  
• The 'stock' car cannot be a 'finished' or 'customised' car...it has to be stock. That's the point...it's your starting point.
  
  
• Please also put a link to the car currently for sale...just in case someone decides they really like your vision AND they happen to have the money to buy the car and turn it into a reality. That would be AWESOME!
  

Here is my current "I SOOOO want to do this" idea

Take this wonderous slab of Americana (the only one I can currently find on eBay):

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-FORD-CROWN-VICTORIA-/160680028673?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item256946aa01



...and make it look like this:


Hell yeah!

So let's see what you want to be rolling from the current crop of cars for sale and how awesome you'd want to make it.

[WillCarter]

I'll have a go later but that slammed Police spec CROWN has stopped me in my tracks on more than one occasion.

[EmDee]

Money no object you say?

For a modern daily I fancy one of these:



Impossible to find a cheap diesel at the moment so I'd get a low milage one like this: www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201147431096215

Given this sort of treatment:



I'd need to spend more time thinking about something more retro and fun so I'll think about it over lunch and post it later.

[Deleted]

On Gumtree: www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C267172



Aaand, it'd be a bit of this with nice V12 squeezed into it somehow.

[Robinxr4i]

I'm posted a thread about doing a VIP style XJS before, but it's an idea that I always keep coming back too. I love the way the Japanese modify XJ's and feel a late model XJS would benefit from the same treatment. So I'd buy this.......


www.pistonheads.com/sales/3401897.htm

.......then spend a small fortune doing this (I know it's an XJ but who cares ).....


My first lotto winning project!

[crazymonkey]

ok I'll do a proper retro one later when Ive made my mind up (too many things I really want to do lol) but for now something Ive always wanted to make.

Take this:



www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2011-NISSAN-NAVARA-White-/160678575805?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item2569307ebd#ht_1553wt_937

and turn it into this:




Just to scare people off the road a little bit ;D

[dbizzle]

I want to take this Avantime...


...and give it the Top Gear treatment. Not the F1 wing and flammable splitter, but the stripping, suspension, brakes, lightweight alloys, sticky tyres, buckets etc. Just for the hell of it.

[EmDee]

Take one Fiat X19

www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201149433720696



Add weight loss, power, wheels, stir in bodykit, remove ride height, apply paint and season accordingly.

[mylittletony]

I would love to take one of these:



It's mostly standard...

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Very-Original-1955-Chevrolet-3100-Pickup-Pickup-/250935349777?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3a6ce99211#ht_1319wt_985

and make it look like this:



and better still, the other half is super keen so it might even happen one day, especially if I could find a suburban

[markbognor]

I'm inspired by this sort of thing,



to do that to this sort of thing,


www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GREEN-MORRIS-MINOR-1000-/330653212532

I'd also rather like to do this sort of thing,



with one of these.


www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1973-Triumph-GT6-restoration-Tuned-Unleaded-Lots-receipts-/320802664366

[octagonalpaul]

I'd love to make one of my photoshops real, these the most:

this is only 10 miles away from me, for a bargainous 37k:



www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NISSAN-GT-R-3-8-BLACK-EDITION-2DR-AUTO-550BHP-/260906703276?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3cbf4059ac

I would render it almost undriveably low with silly offsets and stretched tires, thus:



I really love the Renault 19 shape, they have so much untapped potential.

This looks a tidy example:



www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Renault-19-/120822005612?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item1c218d7f6c#ht_500wt_949

I'd give it some metallic purple, window louvre and a big drop.



The Fiat Multipla is still widely regarded as ugly, but many are starting to think otherwise, myself included.



www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FIAT-MULTIPLA-1-6-100-16v-SX-6-SEATER-MPV-/330649499366?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4cfc3ef6e6

I don't think it'd take much to make a cool one



And finally a humble Nissan Sunny, not often you see a modified one at all.



www.ebay.co.uk/itm/nissan-sunny-2-door-/110788137092?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item19cb7cd084#ht_500wt_949

I think this could be a good cheap track day contender.

[Mystery Machine]

Dec 8, 2011 16:32:03 GMT octagonalpaul said:

I'd love to make one of my photoshops real, these the most:

Paul, you're supposed to put a pic up of a standard one of each that's currently for sale (with a link to the for sale advert too) kind of like a 'before & after' type thing - that's the while point of this thread and you currently fail at Reading/following the rules

[octagonalpaul]

whoops, I got too excited! post edit forthcoming..

[WillCarter]

Some Shakotan treatment and some genuine JDM accessories to end up as a Camry shaped version of this Charmant... but in funky Blue two-tone obviously.

[Mystery Machine]

Another one I'd love to do - This Skyline:

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nissan-Skyline-GTR-TWIN-TURBO-/320801226494?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4ab13e3efe

And make it look like this:


Nothing more, nothing less. ^That's^ the perfect R32 in my eyes.

[EmDee]

If money was no object I'd spend THREE GRAND on a brown montego.









www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201143424846300

Then I'd ruin it by removing the suspension and fitting hayashi streets - like this sort of thing

[speedy88]

I'm currently doing this ;D

I didn't buy this, but here's a 940 (I've actually got a facelift 740 but there you go). What can I say? Volvos give me a hardon.


Currently here for £250:
www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/volvo-940-estate-mot-and-tax-excellent-workhorse/92807035

And here's kind of what I'm aiming for:


It'll be finished by summer.

[EmDee]

there are so many of these, I could do this all day

How about a Hyundai XG30?

www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201145426819851





given a bit of VIP treatment




OR

a Suzuki X 90

www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201148432978422



given some serious drop, dish and possibly some ranger bob arches.

bit like an mx5




Yes, they are RWD

[skinnylew]

I'll start at a basic level:
one of these:

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Citroen-AX-/170734728498?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item27c0953532#ht_1121wt_1313
stripped and reworked into either this:


Ax Maxi (probably run a high tuned VTR on bodies)
or this:

Ax Superproduction

but away from Ax's........

this:


but to an estate/5 dr
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2001-Subaru-Impreza-Wagon-2-0-Turbo-WRX-Petrol-/250929791886?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3a6c94c38e

[Mystery Machine]

Seeing as Speedy88 has failed at following the rules..here is something even moar awesome along his lines:

One pretty tidy 740 Wagon in stock UK spec:

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1988-VOLVO-740-GLE-AUTO-Auto-/380391154752?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item5891146440

A transatlantic swap with a 740 owners lights/grilles and other federal spec parts (they LOVE the Euro spec stuff), some major lows, epic rims and instant win at Volvo ownership: