Has anybody any info on a guy in West Yorkshire who turns the 944S2 into the iconic Ferrari 250 GTO. These cars are award winning and built to a very high specification cost I believe around £30k to build on the 944 chassis, why the S2, I'am told it has the same wheelbase, height, track,lenght and engine size as the Ferrari Am reliably told that a couple of these cars where at the Woodvale Car Show and Tatton Shows near last year, where they won prizes. Anybody seen these cars got info or better still some pictures.
944S turned into Ferrari 250GTO
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Alan Woods
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Pictures were on here earlier this year, I'm sure someone still has the link or images. It looks so wrong but done to a high standard you can only ask "why?".
Don't get it !
Anyone with a trained eye can tell they are not the real thing, that money will buy you a bona fide Ferrari.................why ruin another 944 ? i was at Tatton with my Alpina these lot were mincing about in their Ferrari pit clothing around the cars.
A 550 lookalike with a fibreglass engine cover painted up mimicking the real thing...............pretty sure it was an MR2 engine..........just don't get it.
Left a guy in his F355 (Toyota) Look A Like standing a couple of years ago, bumped into him at Croft circuit and he said he wasn't trying...............yeah righto ! [
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Anyone with a trained eye can tell they are not the real thing, that money will buy you a bona fide Ferrari.................why ruin another 944 ? i was at Tatton with my Alpina these lot were mincing about in their Ferrari pit clothing around the cars.
A 550 lookalike with a fibreglass engine cover painted up mimicking the real thing...............pretty sure it was an MR2 engine..........just don't get it.
Left a guy in his F355 (Toyota) Look A Like standing a couple of years ago, bumped into him at Croft circuit and he said he wasn't trying...............yeah righto ! [
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I'm happy with my iconic Porsche 944, thank you...
Suffolk944
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Yes am firmly in the "don't get it" camp. Spending so much money to create something that looks like 250GTO viewed via one of those distorting mirrors you used to get at seaside fairground attractions doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Plus it ruins a 944 into the bargain of course. [&:]
I agree completely,
If you want a Fezzer and have £20k ish to throw at it, surely you would buy a tidy Mondial? Then you could join 'the Ferrari owners club' for real??!!
I saw the display at Tatton Park this year, and one of the 360 look-a-likes even had a cheap looking steering wheel with immitation T/C buttons etc stuck all over it!?? - Too much Blue Peter watching as kids me thinks??
I don't get the Covin 911 replica's either, but at least some of them look fairly convincing, - at a distance - (parked)! []
If you want a Fezzer and have £20k ish to throw at it, surely you would buy a tidy Mondial? Then you could join 'the Ferrari owners club' for real??!!
I saw the display at Tatton Park this year, and one of the 360 look-a-likes even had a cheap looking steering wheel with immitation T/C buttons etc stuck all over it!?? - Too much Blue Peter watching as kids me thinks??
I don't get the Covin 911 replica's either, but at least some of them look fairly convincing, - at a distance - (parked)! [
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beeRS
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Cobra replicas are fine, Ford GT replicas are fine, Classic pre '73 911's based on later 911 models I can understand, but Ferrari replicas are wrong in so many ways, especially when you consider the build cost. If I had £20K - £30K to throw at a ferrari replica - I'd actually just settle for a real Mondial or a 348TB.
Hilux
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http://www.pistonheads.com/SALES/1391948.htm
My mate paid £95K for his about three years ago so if you get that one for 30K its cost him 20K per year or nearly £400 per week in depreciation alone []
Thats why if a 944 costs you £1500 pounds a year to service its still cheap motoring for ferrari`esque performance.
My mate paid £95K for his about three years ago so if you get that one for 30K its cost him 20K per year or nearly £400 per week in depreciation alone [
]Thats why if a 944 costs you £1500 pounds a year to service its still cheap motoring for ferrari`esque performance.
Fat Albert
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The Chesil Speedster is another worthwhile Replica (356) but it has the correct DNA and is built to the same (or better) standard as the original throughout
Neil Haughey
New member
I remembered this last time and my wishlist of kits cars has stayed the same, Hawk/Corse Stratos or GTD40 or Ultima. All 3 will cost at least 30 grand to do a reasonable build but would be worth it for proper super car performance and sound track. The rest you can keep.
TBH I struggle to understand in many ways how the market for all these cars has kept going. 10 or 15 years ago a properly quick car was a very expensive proposition, back then many ppl (myself included) looked into kit cars as a way of getting something with really good performance for little money. Now however there are loads of either great cars or very quick cars available for peanuts. A secondhand E46 M3 for example will cost less then even the most shedtastic kit car (less then many 968's as well but that is a different discussion).
TBH I struggle to understand in many ways how the market for all these cars has kept going. 10 or 15 years ago a properly quick car was a very expensive proposition, back then many ppl (myself included) looked into kit cars as a way of getting something with really good performance for little money. Now however there are loads of either great cars or very quick cars available for peanuts. A secondhand E46 M3 for example will cost less then even the most shedtastic kit car (less then many 968's as well but that is a different discussion).
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