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« on: June 15, 2010, 07:59:06 PM »
Mayby most of you lot have already seen this, but OMG!!! just saw this on the Top Gear site, indeed a catastrophe!! and some of the cars there are funny too. LOL

http://www.topgear.com/content/timetoburn/sections/carbage/pages/0088/
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« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2010, 08:12:37 PM »
but i think this astra is awesome!!!!

http://www.topgear.com/content/timetoburn/sections/carbage/pages/0526/
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« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2010, 08:16:04 PM »
You simply wouldn't believe how that Carlton turned out - cover car in TV back in 2003 (I think) and the inspiration to do mine.
The guy who built it (Daz) painted it gold, lots of clever little details etc, then later adding V*ctra B headlights - which sounds hideous, but looked better on a Carlton than on a V*ctra - it was powered by a 12V engine (dunno whether it was the fabled Gold Top or not) and put out well over 200BHP.

He drove it for a year or so, sold it and the guy who bought it smashed it up within a few miles ion his way home, Turned round went back to Daz and asked him to fix it, whatever the cost.

Daz said no, he'd done with the car and that was that!
OK, not to everyone's taste but at the time it was legendary.
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« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2010, 08:43:41 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2010, 09:15:06 PM »
Yes I've got that copy, not for me personally but even so how the mighty have fallen.
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« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2010, 06:23:28 PM »
the head lights look alright, but i wudnt do it....
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« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2010, 10:04:30 PM »
Quote from: JimmyVx on June 17, 2010, 06:23:28 PM
the head lights look alright, but i wudnt do it....

They're Carlton lights with a brow in Sean's pic. Wink
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« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2010, 09:53:27 AM »
the brow looks cool, but then it starts to change the face of the carlton which isnt my cup o t, each to their own i guess Smiley
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