I'm sure everybody recognises this car. Serial animal molester and all round scene bumder Emdee built the coolest modified Multipla the world has ever seen, possibly because it's the only modified Multipla, but anyway.....using nothing but the finest Thai virgin bum fluff paint roller and a brush with 3 strands he created the hypnotoad. Here it is in it's most excellent guise.
Unfortunately at that height it was riding on the bumpstops, meaning that one of the front shocks exploded like Mr Duncan's eyeballs when he spots a cheap roof rack at a car boot sale. He therefore returned it to stock ride height, and eventually decided to sell it. There was quite a lot of interest in the car, but luckily I was on the blower like a whippet after a rabbit and arranged to go down and pick it up. One £6 Megabus to Laaaahndan, a £6 train ticket to somewhere below London, many many cigarettes and a long trip to Leicester via a number of West London locations and I was on my home.
One of the conditions of my girlfriend letting me buy it was that I painted it as she didn't like the green. I stuck her on the Montana colour chart and she picked this, a dull and unexciting shade called True Cyan.
With some help from Mr WillCarter we flatted the green down and gave it a whirl. Like I said previously, dull and unexciting was the keyword.
And all done. It's a wonder anybody notices it at all. It's that thing in the picture that's blocking the view of the lovely Jet fuel pumps.
And that's how it stayed until 2 weeks ago, apart from generally getting battered around. It's been everywhere - green laning, through 6 foot snowdrifts at silly speeds, bouncing up every kerb ever etc and it's just soaked all the abuse up. Cost about £60 to get it through the MOT but apart from that we've just driven the wheels off it.
Anyway a couple of weeks ago on a rare check of the car I noticed that the inside edges of the front tyres were through to the wires. Not GR8. Soon after I bought the car I picked up a set of 17" Fiat Abarth Claws, but due to being a job seeking scrounger at the time couldn't afford tyres. With the advent of having a job and actual cash monies in my pocket I decided to chuck some tyres on them. Didn't want tiny sidewalls so went for 215/45 on the front and 215/50 for the rear.
Rear needed some traveller spacing. Don't worry death lovers several nuns and at least a dozen kittens were killed in a horrible fashion.
Better than the TSW's but still not right.
TERM FER MER LERS
Obviously being the Health & Safety conscious gentleman I am I carefully removed the struts, then removed the top mounts whilst compressing the spring so I could cut it in a safe manner. What I definitely didn't do was jack the car up, take the wheel off and then just chop through the spring. No siree, I also definitely didn't spend 1/2 an hour per side chopping the redundant bit into pieces to remove it, and then using a variety of crowbars and hammers to relocate the spring back on the spring pan as due to the weird Fiat struts the force of it de-compressing made it drop right down the strut tube. Whoever did something like that would be idiotic and immoral.
Front done.
Back done.
Scene bummer Tesco carpark photoshoot.
And that's where we're at as of now. I'm gonna give it another blast of paint in the next couple of weeks. Still undecided on what colour to choose I love the blue but I want colour coded wheels and not 100% sure on the test wheel. I've got a new front end to go on it too to replace the dent/rivet laden wings and a boggo spec bumper without the foglights 4 DA EURO LUK. I'll see where the LSD trips take me.
Unfortunately at that height it was riding on the bumpstops, meaning that one of the front shocks exploded like Mr Duncan's eyeballs when he spots a cheap roof rack at a car boot sale. He therefore returned it to stock ride height, and eventually decided to sell it. There was quite a lot of interest in the car, but luckily I was on the blower like a whippet after a rabbit and arranged to go down and pick it up. One £6 Megabus to Laaaahndan, a £6 train ticket to somewhere below London, many many cigarettes and a long trip to Leicester via a number of West London locations and I was on my home.
One of the conditions of my girlfriend letting me buy it was that I painted it as she didn't like the green. I stuck her on the Montana colour chart and she picked this, a dull and unexciting shade called True Cyan.
With some help from Mr WillCarter we flatted the green down and gave it a whirl. Like I said previously, dull and unexciting was the keyword.
And all done. It's a wonder anybody notices it at all. It's that thing in the picture that's blocking the view of the lovely Jet fuel pumps.
And that's how it stayed until 2 weeks ago, apart from generally getting battered around. It's been everywhere - green laning, through 6 foot snowdrifts at silly speeds, bouncing up every kerb ever etc and it's just soaked all the abuse up. Cost about £60 to get it through the MOT but apart from that we've just driven the wheels off it.
Anyway a couple of weeks ago on a rare check of the car I noticed that the inside edges of the front tyres were through to the wires. Not GR8. Soon after I bought the car I picked up a set of 17" Fiat Abarth Claws, but due to being a job seeking scrounger at the time couldn't afford tyres. With the advent of having a job and actual cash monies in my pocket I decided to chuck some tyres on them. Didn't want tiny sidewalls so went for 215/45 on the front and 215/50 for the rear.
Rear needed some traveller spacing. Don't worry death lovers several nuns and at least a dozen kittens were killed in a horrible fashion.
Better than the TSW's but still not right.
TERM FER MER LERS
Obviously being the Health & Safety conscious gentleman I am I carefully removed the struts, then removed the top mounts whilst compressing the spring so I could cut it in a safe manner. What I definitely didn't do was jack the car up, take the wheel off and then just chop through the spring. No siree, I also definitely didn't spend 1/2 an hour per side chopping the redundant bit into pieces to remove it, and then using a variety of crowbars and hammers to relocate the spring back on the spring pan as due to the weird Fiat struts the force of it de-compressing made it drop right down the strut tube. Whoever did something like that would be idiotic and immoral.
Front done.
Back done.
Scene bummer Tesco carpark photoshoot.
And that's where we're at as of now. I'm gonna give it another blast of paint in the next couple of weeks. Still undecided on what colour to choose I love the blue but I want colour coded wheels and not 100% sure on the test wheel. I've got a new front end to go on it too to replace the dent/rivet laden wings and a boggo spec bumper without the foglights 4 DA EURO LUK. I'll see where the LSD trips take me.
