What is the worst, most embarrasing modifiction you have done to your own personal vehicle?
Back in my student days, I had a Mk5 Ford Cortina. I did the following mods:
1. Put BIG chrome exhaust tip on exhaust pipe
2. Took ford badge off rear bootlid, sanded the back down and repainted yellow and re-attached (i.e. so ford logo was on yellow not blue background)
3. Took cortina 1.6 GL off the bootlid, and instead stuck a RS sticker in the same place
4. Installed some cheapie 6x9 speakers on rear shelf, and attempted to hide their presence by placing multi-coloured bedsheet over them
5. Put sports gearknob on gearstick
I look back and think that I must have looked like a right prat. However, me and my mates thought it was cool!!
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The badge thing was cool. Not the rest though nn.
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The gearknob on my 1986 BMW broke halfway up, and rather than pay silly prices for a replacement from beemer, I stole a #8 poolball from the local pub, had a mate who worked at an engineering shop drill a hole to the correct diameter directly opposite the 8, and stuck that on the stub of the gearlever.
In hindsight, it saved a few bob, but looked absolute cak!
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Can't complain about the badge, done something similar to that myself on the other day on my Vectra...but the rest, what were you thinking? ;-)
I was browsing round Halfords the other day and noticed all the cheapo 16v, RS, V8 etc etc badges for sale in the chav section. I thought - they look so naff, who buys them? Then I saw a few different cars with such badges fitted and my thoughts were confirmed. Yuk!
However, who am I to judge with my Irmscher door locks and (soon to be) Irmscher grille... I like to think it's tasteful but Mrs Oilburner thinks I'm a Chav who's missed my calling in life. She's probably right. :)
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Haha OilBoy!
On this side of the world, we can buy Vauxhall badges to REPLACE the Opel badges on our cars!
Now, go away and think about that ... would you WANT to boast of owning a Brit-made Vauxhall?
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LOL! And to think I was wondering about fixing an Opel badge to mine...
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Dynamic Dave.
He dribbles whenever you take him somewhere to eat.
Git - DD
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I'll do you a straight swop! *grin*
BUT, if you want tack, here's the place!
www.autostyle.co.za/prodview.php?prod_id=12904&pid...=
They used to do a gearknob in the shape of a skull, with LED light-up eyes!
OR one like a cobra's head, with LEDs!
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I'll do you a straight swop! *grin* BUT, if you want tack, here's the place! www.autostyle.co.za/prodview.php?prod_id=12904&pid...= They used to do a gearknob in the shape of a skull, with LED light-up eyes! OR one like a cobra's head, with LEDs!
Take trip through Mayfair in Jo'burg and worship at the Temple of Tack - Autostyle in Church Street!
eProf
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Not a mod exactly but once at a low financial ebb bought a red Lada 1200 estate for ms Lud to learn to drive on. Reduced the price when buying it by sticking my thumb through a rusty place in one of the front wings.
It had a brown vinyl roof covering, slightly the worse for wear. One windy day the air somehow got under it at the front and ripped the whole thing off to the rear door opening, leaving the vinyl flapping, inside out, behind the car like Batman's cape. Tore it off and threw it away. The bits of brown vinyl here and there and the remaining traces of glue on the roof certainly didn't make the car look any worse than it did already.
Ms L loved the ghastly thing and later on complained that other cars had too many gears and excessively light steering.
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Haha OilBoy! On this side of the world, we can buy Vauxhall badges to REPLACE the Opel badges on our cars! Now, go away and think about that ... would you WANT to boast of owning a Brit-made Vauxhall?
Agreed, I think the Opel brand was always looked at as being slightly cooler than Vauxhall in the UK - eg the Opel Manta when it was around was for a time the only non-Vauxhall car sold from Vauxhall dealerships.
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On my first car a Vauxhall Viva. I modified the exhaust to side exit & stuck a great big motor bike crome silencer on the end!
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I had a MkIII Ford Zodiac and I fitted a set of imitation wire wheel trims to it. Ghastly, with the benefit of hindsight. I was then working in charge of boy entrant RAF trainees; they got their revenge on me one day by washing the car, which was very grubby, but only washing 1/2 of it! Had to laugh!
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Yes AS, those wheel trims were very naff indeed... of course there was a time when some American cars came with them as standard!
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Thank bloke from Lemington Spa was pretty embarrassing in company too but we haven't seen him lately.
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I has an Austin A30 as a student. Two adhesive eyes about 3 cms in radius affixed to front of car between grille and headlamps. I thought it looked cool and improved the looks together with the Peco big bore exhaust £1.50 from a scrapyard.
Hmm... I shuuder nowadays...If I owned an M3 , I would remove all the badging for the need to be discreet and subtle (but BMW don't do subtle..:-(
madf
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Quite agree about that madf, doing the opposite to the boy racer... I even think a VW Phaeton with a false Passat 1.8 GL badge on the back would take about 70% of people in although they'd keep looking at it out of the corner of their eyes.
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but BMW don't do subtle..:
If you ask them nicely they will....
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Only thing I've ever been tempted to do on my car is go to a Citroen dealer and buy a new gearknob in the same style that they put on the new Xsaras. Far more aesthetically pleasing and a darn sight more comfortable to use.
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Only thing I've ever been tempted to do on my car is go to a Citroen dealer and buy a new gearknob in the same style that they put on the new Xsaras. Far more aesthetically pleasing and a darn sight more comfortable to use.
Someone ban this wild thinking anarchic bringer of chaos.
:-P
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Never done any silly mods, I don't think.
If I owned a Peugeot 407 I'd make some shark's teeth to go in the grille, though.
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Never done any silly mods, I don't think. If I owned a Peugeot 407 I'd make some shark's teeth to go in the grille, though.
Absolutely brilliant idea. In chrome, two rows shuttling back and forth like a hedge trimmer, dont't get too close, $139.99 plus p&p...
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Well my first car was a Mark 2 Escort. The fact that there was no bottom to the doors didn't stop me from
- jacking up the rear suspension with those big chrome things
- pully-up blinds in the rear window
- radio cassette with big speakers (Goodmans!) sitting on the rear shelf
- sticky on reflectors all over it - mudflaps, bumper - even had white reflectors on front!
- the stickers you got from Tandy saying "Burglar Alarm Fitted" with the fake self adhesive keyswitch stuck to the bodywork!
- went through a stage of the thin white tape over the lights
- spraying the steel wheels in shiny silver and then using the tyre paint to blacken the tyres. Every week.
- Oh not forgetting the foglights for the front, the ones with the grille on them!
But no furry dice, now that would just be tacky.......... :)
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In the 1960's some people used to paint the bonnet matt black (regardless of the colour of the rest of the car) as per rally cars of that period. I didn't do it myself ~ I'd have been too embarrased.
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L\'escargot.
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