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May 14, 2010 9:49 a.m. DukeOfUndersteer SuperDork
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May 14, 2010 11:25 a.m. Strike_Zero Reader
In reply to DukeOfUndersteer:
That is awwwweeessssoooome
That Fiat X1/9 and Fiero are smoking hot as well . .
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May 16, 2010 8:10 a.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork
box flares are cooler when they are in your own garage!
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May 16, 2010 11:28 a.m. mblommel New Reader
In reply to friedgreencorrado:
More info:
http://www.x1-9.dk/race_uk.htm
Google the owner's name and I think you can find the vid.
Xweb giveth: http://xwebforums.org/showthread.php?t=4990
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May 16, 2010 5:04 p.m. dean1484 Dork
I am seriously considering getting back to MK1 MR2's. This led me to want to see one with some serious box flairs. My "google Fu" has failed me. Anyone got photos of a wide body MK1 mr2?
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May 16, 2010 5:43 p.m. friedgreencorrado SuperDork
mblommel wrote:
In reply to friedgreencorrado:
More info:
http://www.x1-9.dk/race_uk.htm
Google the owner's name and I think you can find the vid.
Xweb giveth: http://xwebforums.org/showthread.php?t=4990
That be the one! thanks, dude! I knew I'd seen that car here before somewhere.
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May 17, 2010 2:24 a.m. Jay Dork
dean1484 wrote:
I am seriously considering getting back to MK1 MR2's. This led me to want to see one with some serious box flairs. My "google Fu" has failed me. Anyone got photos of a wide body MK1 mr2?
Group B to the rescue!
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May 17, 2010 6:16 a.m. 93celicaGT2 SuperDork
Calling that car an "MR2" is a bit of a stretch, but it's still insanely awesome!
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May 17, 2010 6:45 a.m. Wally SuperDork
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May 17, 2010 6:49 a.m. John Brown SuperDork
dean1484 wrote:
I am seriously considering getting back to MK1 MR2's. This led me to want to see one with some serious box flairs. My "google Fu" has failed me. Anyone got photos of a wide body MK1 mr2?
Mr. Gundersdorf has one (or two). Tis Awesome.
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May 17, 2010 8:23 a.m. Matt B Reader
This car is still under the knife, and these pics are from a year ago. So there may be better pictures out there, but here goes:
Paul Woods MKI with an Audi V8 swap.
You can see the build thread (part 1 of 3) here - http://mr2oc.com/showthread.php?t=346142&page=1&pp=30
Here is a finished rear flare for another car he worked on. He has the whole process documented on his website (flare process page linked) - http://www.woodsport.org/joomla/index.php/current-projects.html
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May 17, 2010 8:41 a.m. John Brown SuperDork
I did NOT see that coming.
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May 17, 2010 9:36 a.m. dean1484 Dork
Yowza. WIth V8 goodness no less!!!!!
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May 17, 2010 9:38 a.m. dean1484 Dork
I was looking at the dual exhaust and said "now why would you do that in an MR2."
As a wise man once said "scroll down son and all will be revealed"
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May 20, 2010 1:59 p.m. Matt B Reader
Just In: mysterious and relatively unknown AW11 actual box flared body kit discovered in an old TRD catalog. Actual manufacturer uncertain.
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May 20, 2010 9:27 p.m. Slyp_Dawg Reader
even the Commies have flares 
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May 20, 2010 10:33 p.m. triumph5 New Reader
Actually, that Mustang looks like an on-some steroids, limited edition, McLaren-edition (yes, that McLaren) Mustang Ford sold back in that late eighties,
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May 21, 2010 2:34 a.m. lewbud Reader
In reply to triumph5: Which Mustang would you be referring to?
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May 21, 2010 6:36 a.m. snipes Reader
Thats where the seats go. Right? (Maybe if she's 5'-3")
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May 21, 2010 6:48 a.m. maroon92 SuperDork
triumph5 said:
Actually, that Mustang looks like an on-some steroids, limited edition, McLaren-edition (yes, that McLaren) Mustang Ford sold back in that late eighties,
Nope, NOT that McLaren. In the 60s McLaren had a US base somewhere in the Detroit area for Can Am and Indy development. After Bruce died, the US branch and the UK branch separated, and made a "pact". The pact said that McLaren US would never produce it's own chassis (so they made engines for Pontiac's Grand Prix Turbo, The ASC McLaren Mustang of which you speak, and a few other projects), and McLaren UK would never produce its own engines (so they made F1 cars with engines supplied by TAG, Mercedes, etc, the Mclaren F1 was powered by BMW, and the Mercedes McLaren SLR obviously had Mercedes power.) The pact must have run out though, because they have made their own engine for the new Mclaren MP4-12C.
Anyway, getting back to the point, it isn't actually the F1 team that built Mustangs in the 80's and 90's.
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May 21, 2010 6:50 a.m. maroon92 SuperDork
In reply to lewbud:
More than likely he is talking about the Mustang that started this whole thread off back on the first page. more than likely, he got to the end of the first page, and posted something without realizing that there were 17 more pages.
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May 21, 2010 9:13 a.m. Matt B Reader
snipes wrote:
Thats where the seats go. Right? (Maybe if she's 5'-3")
Apparently he fits in there at 6ft. Looks tight though.
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May 21, 2010 12:02 p.m. Schmidlap Reader
maroon92 wrote:
triumph5 said:
Actually, that Mustang looks like an on-some steroids, limited edition, McLaren-edition (yes, that McLaren) Mustang Ford sold back in that late eighties,
Nope, NOT that McLaren. In the 60s McLaren had a US base somewhere in the Detroit area for Can Am and Indy development. After Bruce died, the US branch and the UK branch separated, and made a "pact". The pact said that McLaren US would never produce it's own chassis ...The pact must have run out though, because they have made their own engine for the new Mclaren MP4-12C.
I think the pact is still in effect because we got a nasty letter from McLaren Cars when we brought the "Powered by McLaren" Lincoln LS (Lincoln LS) to the New York Auto Show. Because we put our logo on the brake calipers they claimed we overstepped our bounds of only marketing engine components. From what I remember, the talk around the company was that the pact was infinite in time.
McLaren US/McLaren Engines/McLaren Performance Technologies was bought out by Linamar, a large Canadian auto supplier, back in 2005. The company was on the edge of bankruptcy for years, and Linamar picked them up for fairly cheap because they needed a testing/engineering center close to Detroit, and the McLaren name had a lot of value because of what McLaren Cars in Europe had done. When I went to the 40th anniversary party last summer, I was talking to some current employees and they said they hadn't done any engine design lately and that they hadn't even tested an engine in 6 months, but were testing plenty of drivetrain components produced by Linamar. My bet is that Linamar doesn't care at all about engines and agreed to allow McLaren Cars to produce their own engine because people would confuse it with McLaren US and add some value to it. They probably got some cash too.
Bob
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May 21, 2010 1:15 p.m. Huh New Reader
Has anyone posted this?
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May 21, 2010 1:53 p.m. sobe_death Reader
Matt B wrote:
This car is still under the knife, and these pics are from a year ago. So there may be better pictures out there, but here goes:
Paul Woods MKI with an Audi V8 swap.
You can see the build thread (part 1 of 3) here - http://mr2oc.com/showthread.php?t=346142&page=1&pp=30WTF IS WRONG WITH FORUMS THAT MAKE YOU berkeleying REGISTER AND THEN GET AN ADMIN TO LATER APPROVE IT JUST TO VIEW A berkeleying THREAD!!?!?!????
