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If you think the Panamera is horrible ;-), look at this!

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morris944s2john

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Its the Discovery Channel Chop Shop "customisation" of our favourite car.

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/web/chop-shop-2/the-cars/beauty-and-the-beast-car/

Not sure if I like it or not. A 944 is a great looking car why try and make it look like a Mustang?? Have to see the finished program and the completed car.
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Work of art or vandalism??
 
Well, at least you'd have a Mustang that went around corners......[8|]

I believe we have a smiley specifically designed for this.

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ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty

Well, at least you'd have a Mustang that went around corners......[8|]

I believe we have a smiley specifically designed for this.

[:'(][:'(]
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Is that a supercharger next to the expansion tank?
 
I don't find it anything like as repulsive as some modifications we have seen; but still pointless. If you want a Mustang, get a Mustang. :rolleyes:
 
Believe it or not, this seems to be one of the more successful designs to come out of that TV program.
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Still not good and the workmanship is highly questionable.[:mad:]
 
Ye gods. I've seen everything now.

Birching is too good for them, Scott. As is hanging, shooting and firing squads.

I despair. More worryingly, I am aware that large numbers of impressionable kids will watch this rubbish and think "Yeah, that's a cool thing to do to a car."

That's really worrying.


Oli.
 
Well caught a bit of the prog - had to turn over it was too painful to watch much of it ! Every bit as bad if not worse than the pics suggested [&o]
 
I quite like the Chop Shop series - it's always interesting to see what they can do with boring old cars and make one-off designs. But chopping a Porsche? Is nothing sacred any more? 944s are not cheap cars by any definition, and they're classics...really, they should stick to chopping Rovers or similar Leyland rubbish...

As for what they've done to this particular 944 - [:'(]
 
ORIGINAL: Suffolk944

Well caught a bit of the prog - had to turn over it was too painful to watch much of it ! Every bit as bad if not worse than the pics suggested [&o]
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The whole program seems like a "me too" rip off of Overhaulin' /Wrecks to Riches et al. With the added "interest" of a cheeky East Laundaun Lad, and a mentalist. Totally made for TV. Anyone ever see a second car in the garage?
 
I just watched the final episode of this tonight and I have to say that in the end I was quite impressed. The bodywork when finished actually looked 'right' as an American Muscle car Camaro style, which is what David Ginola wanted.

But what interested me more is that they actually fitted a Rotrex supercharger to the standard Lux engine using these peope in the UK http://www.stormdevelopments.co.uk/home.html and whilst they didn't mention the boost pressure they claim a pretty useful increase rom the standard 160bhp to 292bhp. As expected on the first 'proving' run at Bruntingthorpe they blew the original headgasket, but that has happened to a lot of Turbo's once the boost gets turned up and the original HG is still in there.

That's the first time I've heard of a successful install to a UK LUX and it's was done in house by Storm Developments in Reading so I wonder if they would offer it as part of their range. Looking at their website they list a kit for a 2.9 Golf VR6 running at 10psi with water injection and includes a days mapping on their Rolling road for £3000
 
I haven't seen the programme, and I haven't seen any pics beyond the ones in this thread, but I have to say I quite like it, too. It's only an old and probably pretty scruffy example of a fairly unloved car of which there are any number of other scruffy examples and was probably destined for the breakers yard in the sky before this anyway so I don''t see any need to be precious about it, and if it resulted in a real tuning option for the 2.5NA engine then I'd say it was good thing.

I have to reserve judgement as to whether I like the finished article until I have seen it, but provided it has been altered enough that it isn't obvious it's a 944 underneath I suspect I will quite like it.
 
I've just followed the link from the top and clicked through to the photos and then through all of them on what is one of the worst navigated websites and poorly designed gallery tools I have seen for some time.

In general I actually quite like it, but:

Why did what started out as a blue car suddenly have a red roof, bonnet and doors?

Why did they paint it like that? I can understand satin black, but it looks like it was done with rattle cans.

What is the interior like, just standard 944 I'm guessing as they don't show it.
 
I can see how it must seem confusing (especially from that awful website). I only saw the last episode, but it seems they also had a red 944 they were using as a donor car. It sat in the yard without any roof, gearbox, interior etc. They didn't show much of the finished interior in this episode, but what I did see had a pair of branded bucket seats (might have been Corbeau or Cobra). The paint was a matt black, sprayed in a proper paint booth but Mr Ginola particularly wanted that paint finish [&:]
 
I saw that program last night too, very impressed with the supercharger, one of those nestled inside the bonnet of an old 924S would be good fun!
The editing of the 'reveal' was so 'edgy and cool' that you never really got a good look at the finished car and they skipped over the whole interior makeover completely as i suspect they ran out of time to do anything.
 
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