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MG Midget and Sprite General - insane mods and flares

Foud these today. YIKES
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/media/img/readerrides/11-15-11-10_t352.JPG
S.A. Jones

Yes, I think I have seen that build

If it's the one I am thinking of its a Locost chassis with a Spridget shell on top
S Deakin

..... bah ha ha ha! Each to their own I suppose. Poor little car!

Cheers,
Malcolm
M Le Chevalier

lame

or, sadly comical, really

but, no, not impressive, or inspiring, more like, "call child services!"


Norm
Norm Kerr

Oh good lord...at some point the thought had to occour, this is looking like crap sufflie... i should come up with a new plan.....

so between that moment and its completetion, what went wrong.... was there drugs involved, did they loose there eye sight.... i dont understand.

Hahaha

Prop
Prop

Sorry guys, but beside the extra grilligths and rollbar I cant see anything unoriginal... ;)

Sure would be intresting to see the end result.
Arie de Best

Arie,

You do know what causes blindiness, Correct ? The church frowns on that sorta thing. Repent of your fun sin and you will see.

Hahahaha

Prop
Prop

Here is the full build

http://www.locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=4508&sid=f0f020147d1d78d2e1ad8e2e1e3208d7

I actually quite like it ......
G Hawkins

All those years in the Law Enforcement Field taught me one thing- that there is no bottom to the pool of human stupidity......
Stephen Strange

However, some people find it fun to jump out of perfectly good airplanes. As long as the guy enjoys himself I'm not going to judge him nor his creation.
Trevor Jessie

I like the project on the whole, he just ruins it at the end by dumping an ill-fitting midget shell on the top of it! ha ha.

I see he did the FSAE racing car thing at uni just like I did.

Malcolm
M Le Chevalier

I'd have been tempted to cut the midget body up the middle and make the whole thing wider rather than comedy flares. Impressive engineering though.
Rob Armstrong

I think its a very intresting project and a bit similair to the I.O.W. frogeye which I thought is also a subframe car with frog fglass body and panels. I dont mind the wide arches but personally I think the rollbar is to hight and killing the looks of the car.
Arie de Best

Rob, widening cars usually has one giant drawback, finding a windscreen that will fit the wider frame. I've seen several such projects and that seems to be the final piece to the puzzle that no one I've seen has really solved yet. For a competition only car it's easy to run a plastic part, but for a car that must pass MOT or such safety glass is the only solution and finding that is a real problem for most builders.
B Young

Bill,
That is why "hot rods" ended with 1948 (IIRC). Prior to that, all the glass (at least in most US-built cars) was flat, so it was relatively easy to chop and channel your ride AND make glass to fit. Then the WWII jet technology hit the automotive world and it all came to an end. ISTR reading about a kit car that turned a Fiero or some such into a "Lamborghini". Problem was that the kit required you to go out and acquire an actual Lamborghini windshield. Kinda got overlooked by most buyers until it was too late.
David "hot the rod and spoil the child" Lieb
David Lieb

Being 6'2" tall, I always rather fancied stretching the wheelbase of the Midget by a couple of inches to reduce the number of folds needed to get in.

This would no doubt have wrecked the delicate handling, turning it into an understeering pudding. Best just buy a B which is already like that!!!
Clive Berry

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