MattE
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Do you know of a car thats made from alloy, not just tail gates or bonnets but the hole thing? Reason for asking is i do detailing and polishing as a hobby (at least it`s not train spotting) and have been thinking about a polished alloy car for a while.
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luckyseven
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Alloy cars?luckyseven
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NSX?
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MattE
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Little out of my price range, would look the nuts though.
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Porsche
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Range Rover or Land Rover.
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Jaaaag.
A8.
there's some alloy in the A6 too.
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omega
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back to the future
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grumpy
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If you mean the Delorean I'm pretty sure thats stainless. |
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Rich
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Alloy cars?Rich
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Completely unobtainable but an interesting aluminium body car fact is that Leyland Special Tuning or whatever they were called made 4 all ally MGC shells for competition.
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omega
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If you mean the Delorean I'm pretty sure thats stainless. I do belive you are right |
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Alloy cars?fr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
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I was going to say Audi a2 but that's the main chassis that's alu.
The bumpers are plastic and think the bonnet and doors are too?!
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Bmw Z8? You'd have to rob a bank to get one though!  |
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I was going to say Audi a2 but that's the main chassis that's alu. The bumpers are plastic and think the bonnet and doors are too?! The bumpers and wheel arch extension on my A2 are plastic but the rest of the car is all aluminum. Mine is the colour storm hence the extended arches. |
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1965 Morris Minor 1000 soon to be 1380
1997 MK1 MX-5 1.8 (sold)
2009 MK3 MX-5 2.0 (sold)
2008 Mini Cooper (sold)
2003 Mini Cooper S (sold)
Fixed wheel Raleigh Clubman (sold)
1982 Yamaha RS125DX (sold)
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Alloy cars?fr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
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I was going to say Audi a2 but that's the main chassis that's alu. The bumpers are plastic and think the bonnet and doors are too?! The bumpers and wheel arch extension on my A2 are plastic but the rest of the car is all aluminum. Mine is the colour storm hence the extended arches. Are the colour storm arches wider then? I just thought they were the same arches just in matt black rather than colour-coded? |
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The bumpers and wheel arch extension on my A2 are plastic but the rest of the car is all aluminum. Mine is the colour storm hence the extended arches. Are the colour storm arches wider then? I just thought they were the same arches just in matt black rather than colour-coded? The early cars were not fitted with plastic arches,I think the later cars were fitted with body coloured arches. Most of the early cars ran on 15"wheels the colour storm has 17's with low profile tyres. |
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1965 Morris Minor 1000 soon to be 1380
1997 MK1 MX-5 1.8 (sold)
2009 MK3 MX-5 2.0 (sold)
2008 Mini Cooper (sold)
2003 Mini Cooper S (sold)
Fixed wheel Raleigh Clubman (sold)
1982 Yamaha RS125DX (sold)
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Alloy cars?fr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
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Ah right - ours is a 53 reg sport so has the plastic arches and came with the same 17" wheels - you had me hoping there were OEM wide arches that could be popped straight on then! Apologies to original poster for taking off topic!  |
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MattE
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Please don't apoligise, giving me some realy good idears, already been on evilbay looking at A2`s, might offer to do one for someone for the cost of materials. I polished 2 airstreams 2 years ago, took 2 months but the finish was fantastic and i always wonderd how a car would look.
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jonw
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Bonnet on the A2 is Alu.
Land rover is ally bodied.
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Suzuki SV650R The good
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BMW G650GS The Ugly
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Last Edit: Oct 8, 2013 13:16:28 GMT by colnerov
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Dez
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yeah, on the a2 the sill covers, wheel arches on the rear, whole front wings and bumpers are plastic. the door skins/bonnet/bootlid/upper rear quarters and roof skin are alu.
there was some guy out in internetland hand fabbing a landy entirely in fresh alu so he could have it polished. think it comes up if you search hot rod landy.
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