Outlaw Aurelia

[rmad]

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My point is that they are just not that a common a car to start hacking up in the first place - especially when there is nothing wrong with the original styling either - it's not has through it's been improved by the chop either - it's just someone's vain vison of how to integrate a year 2000 Bentley Coupe styling & looks into a 1950's highly regarded design which so obviously does not work.

[mylittletony]

Dec 10, 2018 13:01:17 GMT @grumpynorthener said:

... it's just someone's vain vision of how to integrate a year 2000 Bentley Coupe styling & looks into a 1950's highly regarded design which so obviously does not work.

...in your opinion.

I like it

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Dec 10, 2018 13:17:50 GMT mylittletony said:

Dec 10, 2018 13:01:17 GMT @grumpynorthener said:

... it's just someone's vain vision of how to integrate a year 2000 Bentley Coupe styling & looks into a 1950's highly regarded design which so obviously does not work.

...in your opinion.

I like it

Very much so and we are all entitled to it

[v8ian]

I was thinking more Barris Hirohita style chop

[HoTWire]

Dec 10, 2018 13:01:17 GMT @grumpynorthener said:

it's just someone's vain vison of how to integrate a year 2000 Bentley Coupe styling & looks into a 1950's highly regarded design

Did you miss the part where it is a copy/replica/homage to the Giovanni Bracco’s Mille Miglia car?

[joem83]

The racing one looks ok

[mikec]

Dec 10, 2018 16:24:56 GMT HoTWire said:

Dec 10, 2018 13:01:17 GMT @grumpynorthener said:

it's just someone's vain vison of how to integrate a year 2000 Bentley Coupe styling & looks into a 1950's highly regarded design

Did you miss the part where it is a copy/replica/homage to the Giovanni Bracco’s Mille Miglia car?

It is neither a copy nor a replica of the Bracco car. You may consider it a homage to that car, I consider it a caricature, which has destroyed the beautiful lines of the original (either the Boano-designed Ghia original or the modified competition car). What a good job we don't all like the same things!

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Dec 10, 2018 16:24:56 GMT HoTWire said:

Dec 10, 2018 13:01:17 GMT @grumpynorthener said:

it's just someone's vain vison of how to integrate a year 2000 Bentley Coupe styling & looks into a 1950's highly regarded design

Did you miss the part where it is a copy/replica/homage to the Giovanni Bracco’s Mille Miglia car?

Not at all - has I don't believe it is - it's what the trade tend to call an 'Evocation' and you will find the term used widely by auction houses - in my book it's ruination of what was a good original car - now I'm far from the anti modding type and had the car been a pile of poo and built up from various scrounged up parts I wouldn't have battered an eyelid - I own the very same thing a non original but rarish Jowett Jupiter but its a kit of parts made up from at least 11 different scrapped cars at the last count - when I eventually get around to build it I have all sorts of non original things planned for it - but it will be a bitza mongrel and I will be making the best out of a pile of discarded parts and not wreaking a good car for the sake of a vain statement. In the Lanica's case it was nice all original rarish car that required restoration - instead it got butchered - in some peoples eyes & heads it's perfectly acceptable - in mine far from it - but we all have different levels of what is acceptable along with differing opinions - long may that remain the case.

[benhar]

Another lovely car ruined.

Ben

[Woofwoof]

I'm not surprised really about the negative comments on the chop but in all honesty and as already mentioned there seems to be plenty of standard Aurelia's around. And who knows if the owner hadn't poured a massive amount of money into it, it may have just rotted away or received a poor quality rebuild.

I'll sum up with this: Hats off to the owner, I wouldn't have been as brave.

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Dec 10, 2018 22:36:40 GMT Woofwoof said:

I'm not surprised really about the negative comments on the chop but in all honesty and as already mentioned there seems to be plenty of standard Aurelia's around. And who knows if the owner hadn't poured a massive about money into it, it may have just rotted away or received a poor quality rebuild.

I'll sum up with this: Hats off to the owner, I wouldn't have been as brave.

Fair point - however their are plenty of Lamborghini Esparda's, Jaguar SS & curved dash Oldsmobiles about but I don't see them chopped & butchered - I cant see a Lancia Aurelia hanging around and rotting once it gets into the public gaze either due to the values achieved by collectors of the marque / model and to give you some idea it's worth £60k + has an original barn find & £170k + has a restored concours example so it's quite unlikely to suffer from a poor quality rebuild.

[luckyseven]

I rather like that Aurelia, myself .... although the burgundy one looks terrible becos doors... BUT I don't like it as much as a stock Aurelia. Which is weird, because it's very rare for a car to not be improved for some working about. It's not the roof chop either, I think the lack of chrome or any kind of accents, bumpers, anything, just makes it look like a render some teenageer's done in their bedroom. Needs some jewellery

[Deleted]

I'd have extended the bodywork downward to increase the sleekness of the lines.
And filled the two cavities in the front.
But it does have a LOT of presence!

[Frankenhealey]

Dec 9, 2018 19:50:54 GMT v8ian said:

OOOOOOF

^^^^^^^ What he said x 2

[moglite]

I wonder what @grumpynortherner 's blood pressure is going to hit when he see's this 




and I wonder how long it will take to come back to normal when I spill the beans, and say it is a GRP replica 

My 2C's - I think that Lancia roof chop is OTT, but if it were my car, and I had the money, and I had the vision - I'd do something similar - and drive it.

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Dec 11, 2018 12:14:46 GMT moglite said:

I wonder what @grumpynortherner 's blood pressure is going to hit when he see's this 




and I wonder how long it will take to come back to normal when I spill the beans, and say it is a GRP replica 

My 2C's - I think that Lancia roof chop is OTT, but if it were my car, and I had the money, and I had the vision - I'd do something similar - and drive it.

Blood pressure is normal and on a steady but reliable tickover upon viewing the gullwing in the pic - basically because even if the gullwing was the real thing that had been played about with there is nothing can't be reversed - wheels can be changed has can the interior and even the colour of the car - but a roof chop is a difficult point to come back from - not saying it cant be done - but it would be more than just hard work - the Merc Gullwing in the pic I quite like - I also very much quite like the fact that someone had the sensible notion to build it on a GRP replica too In other words 'No real Gullwings were culled during the build of this car'

[HoTWire]

Dec 11, 2018 13:40:34 GMT @grumpynorthener said:

I also very much quite like the fact that someone had the sensible notion to build it on a GRP replica too In other words 'No real Gullwings were culled during the build of this car'

This one is real though no it isn't ... first place I read about it was wrong


But there are plenty of them as well so ... have at it I say

[mylittletony]

End of the day it's just a car...

It might be expensive (either from rarity or desirability), but that just means you have to have deeper pockets to play at that level. The price is no reason to keep it standard.

[gtviva]

Golly this thread has stirred up some different opinions, which is good! I'm not sure so while I decide I'm just going to sit on the fence and get splinters!