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DukeOfUndersteer
DukeOfUndersteer SuperDork
5/14/10 9:49 a.m.

Strike_Zero
Strike_Zero Reader
5/14/10 11:25 a.m.

In reply to DukeOfUndersteer:

That is awwwweeessssoooome

That Fiat X1/9 and Fiero are smoking hot as well . .

4cylndrfury
4cylndrfury SuperDork
5/16/10 8:10 a.m.

box flares are cooler when they are in your own garage!

mblommel
mblommel GRM+ Memberand New Reader
5/16/10 11:28 a.m.

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

dean1484
dean1484 GRM+ Memberand Dork
5/16/10 5:04 p.m.

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?

friedgreencorrado
friedgreencorrado SuperDork
5/16/10 5:43 p.m.
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.

Jay
Jay Dork
5/17/10 2:24 a.m.
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!

93celicaGT2
93celicaGT2 SuperDork
5/17/10 6:16 a.m.

Calling that car an "MR2" is a bit of a stretch, but it's still insanely awesome!

Wally
Wally GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
5/17/10 6:45 a.m.

John Brown
John Brown GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
5/17/10 6:49 a.m.
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.

Matt B
Matt B Reader
5/17/10 8:23 a.m.

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

John Brown
John Brown GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
5/17/10 8:41 a.m.

I did NOT see that coming.

dean1484
dean1484 GRM+ Memberand Dork
5/17/10 9:36 a.m.

Yowza. WIth V8 goodness no less!!!!!

dean1484
dean1484 GRM+ Memberand Dork
5/17/10 9:38 a.m.

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"

Matt B
Matt B Reader
5/20/10 1:59 p.m.

Just In: mysterious and relatively unknown AW11 actual box flared body kit discovered in an old TRD catalog. Actual manufacturer uncertain.

Slyp_Dawg
Slyp_Dawg GRM+ Memberand Reader
5/20/10 9:27 p.m.

even the Commies have flares

triumph5
triumph5 New Reader
5/20/10 10:33 p.m.

Actually, that Mustang looks like an on-some steroids, limited edition, McLaren-edition (yes, that McLaren) Mustang Ford sold back in that late eighties,

lewbud
lewbud Reader
5/21/10 2:34 a.m.

In reply to triumph5: Which Mustang would you be referring to?

snipes
snipes Reader
5/21/10 6:36 a.m.

Thats where the seats go. Right? (Maybe if she's 5'-3")

maroon92
maroon92 SuperDork
5/21/10 6:48 a.m.
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.

maroon92
maroon92 SuperDork
5/21/10 6:50 a.m.

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.

Matt B
Matt B Reader
5/21/10 9:13 a.m.
snipes wrote: Thats where the seats go. Right? (Maybe if she's 5'-3")

Apparently he fits in there at 6ft. Looks tight though.

Schmidlap
Schmidlap Reader
5/21/10 12:02 p.m.
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

Huh
Huh New Reader
5/21/10 1:15 p.m.

Has anyone posted this?

sobe_death
sobe_death Reader
5/21/10 1:53 p.m.
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=30

WTF IS WRONG WITH FORUMS THAT MAKE YOU berkeleying REGISTER AND THEN GET AN ADMIN TO LATER APPROVE IT JUST TO VIEW A berkeleying THREAD!!?!?!????

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