qwerty
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Rather taken by this. It works so well. Apologies for the poor photos I've stolen them off FB.    Tom |
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A long way for the petrol to travel from the filler to the tank!
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'57 Austin Cambridge A55 1800 Overdrive
'50 MG Y-type (In build)
'56 Standard Super 10 (In build)
'03 Fiat Stilo Abarth (Wet weather runabout)
'03 Citroen Berlingo HDi (Parts hauler)
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A long way for the petrol to travel from the filler to the tank! Oh yeah! |
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Very nicely done - the best of 'both worlds'?
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A long way for the petrol to travel from the filler to the tank! Holds an extra gallon of fuel. |
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braaap
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A few comments on this from a thread it was featured in lately: Only just found out this existed……  Once seen can’t be unseen 😳 There have been beetle vans before, just not travellized, but nothing unimaginable. Works for me. I have a problem with this. It looks really good, suits it. But. I can't not see moggy bits. If it's not moggy bits they missed a trick there. Just noticed it's got what looks like the filler neck in the rear panel, where the engine probably is 🤔 Engine's in the back: (...) I think it's a pretty neat conversion, combining the best of both worlds... |
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Last Edit: Jul 3, 2022 13:57:28 GMT by braaap
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retrolegends
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Different and a brilliant piece of engineering tbh, it just confuses my eyes 😂
MorrWagan Braveller? Volksorris Treetle?
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Different and a brilliant piece of engineering tbh, it just confuses my eyes 😂 MorrWagan Braveller? Volksorris Treetle? Volksorris treetle. That's exactly what I see 😆 it is perfectly done tho. I wonder how much work was done to make it all fit so well, because it looks like it's a perfect fit |
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Fantastic. Looks like it came from the factory.
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braaap
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Yes, obviously they changed the beetle roof a lot to fit to the morris roof that perfectly.
I wonder how much original parts of the minor have been used?
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Yes, obviously they changed the beetle roof a lot to fit to the morris roof that perfectly. I wonder how much original parts of the minor have been used? I think they've reshaped the wood to follow the shape of the door. It doesn't look like it's been shortened between the door and the rear arches. Rear arches look minor. The beetles front wing is more like the rear arch on the minor than a minor front arch, so it kind of suits the beetle more than it does the minor. |
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qwerty
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Different and a brilliant piece of engineering tbh, it just confuses my eyes 😂 MorrWagan Braveller? Volksorris Treetle? Volksorris treetle. That's exactly what I see 😆 it is perfectly done tho. I wonder how much work was done to make it all fit so well, because it looks like it's a perfect fit I think its one of those builds that looks so well done that you assume it was easy......but it probably was the absolute opposite! |
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Volksorris treetle. That's exactly what I see 😆 it is perfectly done tho. I wonder how much work was done to make it all fit so well, because it looks like it's a perfect fit I think its one of those builds that looks so well done that you assume it was easy......but it probably was the absolute opposite! What makes you say that, they only made Minor changes... ...geddit? |
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Wow - thats a proper marmite motor - If it was painted in a BL shade rather than a VW one, I think that would make me accept it
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Some 9000's, a 900, an RX8 & a beetle
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A long way for the petrol to travel from the filler to the tank! By the time the fuel reaches the tank, the cost has gone up by 5 pence per litre! |
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One of the Morris Minor groups had some "interesting" reactions. Some folk needing to go lie down in a darkened room afterwards...
I kinda like it. I get it. Its well done. Why not? I won't be rushing out to build my own.
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Its a damn sight better than this, every time I look at it my eyes hurt and I just think who on earth thought it was a good idea to ruin two perfectly good cars. uk.motor1.com/news/511415/jaguar-xk150-foxbat-shooting-brake/The irony is that when it came up for sale recently it was a lot less than an unmodified XK150 would have been, it would probably have been worth buying it to put it back to standard. |
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Now we just need someone to mate a Minor front to a Beetle rear, to make a balanced pair...
Perhaps one of the first Minor MM fronts paired to an early Beetle rear would look pretty good.
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