Shooting Brake conversions make every sports car awesomer

I <3 this thread. That '55 vette is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. I'd want mine on a '58 though.

I'm sure I have previously professed my love for the astons on here as well.

This is just an entire thread of awesomeness...

Of course, I own an 1800ES, so I'm just a little bit biased...

There's no way in hell we'll ever see it now, but I liked these at the Detroit Auto Show like...6 or 7 years ago. It was built on the Solstice platform, so it would have been rear-wheel drive with a turbo 4. I don't care if you call it a wagon, hatch, or shooting brake, I like it.

They should have made the front end of the solstice look more like that. Hell, Chevy should make that car and just call it the C1; with or without the shooting brake/wagon part. Eitherway its cool.

There was a company a few years ago doing these conversions on the 4th GM F-Body. I saw it on one of the Spike TV shows.

I seem to recall the entire rear opened and hinged there the glass hatch did on the normal production car.

Tom Heath wrote:

Weren't they calling this a Nomad? I remember this at Detroit, too, and I recall thinking at the time 'this is too cool to ever make production.' I love this thing.

Now this is the exception that proves the thread title's rule. Yikes.

Carson wrote: There was a company a few years ago doing these conversions on the 4th GM F-Body.

That looks suspiciously like a massaged camper shell. But I think I like it.

This is so wrong (on so many levels) that it's back to right again.

You know, I've never actually seen one of these. But they came out at an impressionable point of my childhood.

Sultin of Brunei's Ferrari 456 Wagon...

alex wrote: That looks suspiciously like a massaged camper shell. But I think I like it.

No, no, this looks like a massaged camper shell on a F body. I use 'massaged' loosely.

or... Maserati Quattroporte Wagon

alex wrote:

Carson wrote: There was a company a few years ago doing these conversions on the 4th GM F-Body.

That looks suspiciously like a massaged camper shell. But I think I like it.

Interesting. They've eliminated the usability of a hatch and added minimal room to the cargo area. Was the goal to make something uglier and less useful?

In reply to speedblind:

The whole back opens, it hinges on the roof at the b-pillar. The hatch function is unchanged, the shape of the hatch has changed.

keith - there's one for sale here in mid ga. Cheap. might even run.

RossD wrote: 78 pinto crusin wagon - $450

Anybody close that could go see this thing? I just happen to have a 302 laying around here somewhere...

In reply to hobiercr: Its kinda near my cabin. ~2.75 hours away.

I kinda like that F4 conversion.

Not a conversion. The last 510 Jensen Healeys made were Jensen GT's in response to US laws which made production of small convertibles kinda impractical for several years.

In reply to Jensenman:

That looks like a combination of a Vega (front) and Spitfire (rear fenders) and a Volvo 1800ES (roof line and rear).

But since I have an affection for all of those cars, I like it.

alex wrote: This is so wrong (on so many levels) that it's back to right again.

Overhang, anyone?

Does this count?

And there are some interesting others here: http://www.pestalozzi.net/sb/a_photo_index_2door_easy.html

jstein77 wrote:

alex wrote: This is so wrong (on so many levels) that it's back to right again.

Overhang, anyone?

Overhang is only one of the MINOR issues with the Lagonda