saw this from the Lemons last weekend and noticed the GRM sticker. IHROM nominee
It was a MR2
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April 24, 2010 5:01 p.m. Opus Dork
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April 24, 2010 9:29 p.m. Jensenman SuperDork
Looks like an MR 1/2 now.
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April 24, 2010 10:10 p.m. zipty842 Reader
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April 24, 2010 10:44 p.m. grimmelshanks New Reader
totally badass
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April 24, 2010 10:46 p.m. rob_lewis Dork
I don't know what an IHROM nominee is, but I like it!
Notice all the cancer in the rear fenders. Who knows what kind of shape it was in before being made a Lemons car. Looks to me like it was plucked from the grave for a few last chances of racing greatness.
-Rob
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April 24, 2010 11:03 p.m. maroon92 SuperDork
Internet Hot Rod Of The Month.
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April 24, 2010 11:49 p.m. vazbmw Reader
That MR2 has been bobbed
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April 25, 2010 6:07 a.m. Jay Dork
I can't find a photo but a guy I used to autocross with had something like that. Every season he'd find more and more bits to sawzall away. Everything fore and aft of the shock towers was gone, the radiator was lying flat where the passenger seat floor used to be, and all the detachable body panels were AWOL. He kept the roof for structural reasons as IIRC it didn't have a cage. It was known eventually the MR0.7. Any of you Ontario folk have a pic of Bill Richardson's car?
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April 25, 2010 9:42 a.m. neon4891 SuperDork
rob_lewis wrote:
Notice all the cancer in the rear fenders. Who knows what kind of shape it was in before being made a Lemons car. Looks to me like it was plucked from the grave for a few last chances of racing greatness.
I love it. But now all I can think of is some group of purists crying over how someone "desacrated an irriplacable legendary performance car" that was obviously in really bad shape in the first place(ie. bed linered golf/A4, dune bugy lexus)
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April 25, 2010 9:46 a.m. zomby woof HalfDork
It doesn't make me cry. It makes me want to build something just like it from one of my Swifts.
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April 25, 2010 11:58 a.m. forzav12 New Reader
Its just an old MR2-big deal. Its not like they cut up a Miata or something.
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April 25, 2010 1:28 p.m. mr2peak New Reader
Jay wrote:
I can't find a photo but a guy I used to autocross with had something like that. Every season he'd find more and more bits to sawzall away. Everything fore and aft of the shock towers was gone, the radiator was lying flat where the passenger seat floor used to be, and all the detachable body panels were AWOL. He kept the roof for structural reasons as IIRC it didn't have a cage. It was known eventually the MR0.7. Any of you Ontario folk have a pic of Bill Richardson's car?
I've seen pics of that car. Wasn't it called stumpy? Was crazy fast from what I remember hearing.
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April 25, 2010 1:42 p.m. jrw1621 Dork
I owned my '88 MR2 SC from about '00-'04. During that time frame there was a very similar, chopped off, MR2 SC that used to run in modified autocross classes in the Akron, OH region with the Akron Sport Car Club. I used to have pictures of it, but that was 3 computers ago. I never saw the chopped car in person but from what I hear, it was very fast!
