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Club Arnage => General Discussion => Topic started by: Leftie on September 05, 2007, 03:00:54 am

Title: Pimp or Chav Mobile!!!
Post by: Leftie on September 05, 2007, 03:00:54 am

Saw this today in Addlestone whilst filling up.

Yep, it's a Merc, just imported from California and is the only one in the UK.

What do you reckon?

(http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa64/jjkt15/IMG_1001.jpg)

(http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa64/jjkt15/IMG_1002.jpg)

You 'new' owner was peeling off the 'whitewalls' and looked a bit 'yardy-ish'

Title: Re: Pimp or Chav Mobile!!!
Post by: ewan on September 05, 2007, 08:00:46 am

Man, that's pretty scary looking. I'm no fan of the CLS' looks anyway, but this mod kind of takes the biscuit.

Are we predicting a return of the Consul/Granada/Capri "black vinyl roof"? At first I thought it was a cabriolet, but even the Americans aren't stupid enough to put a sun roof in a convertible... are they?

Title: Re: Pimp or Chav Mobile!!!
Post by: Steve Pyro on September 05, 2007, 09:27:52 am

Bring back the 1949 Mercury!

(http://info.detnews.com/dn/joyrides/2002/precruise02/49merc.jpg)

Title: Re: Pimp or Chav Mobile!!!
Post by: Andy Zarse on September 05, 2007, 02:02:50 pm

God some people just don't know when to stop do they?

Ghastly beyond words! The Merc CLS thing is the best looking Merc in years, ever possibly. And some twunt thinks that by adding Maxpower wheels and that idiotic grille he's gonna improve on it? It's the Vinyl roof that really does it for me though. It completely destroys the wonderful flowing roofline. Incompetence expressed through a Stanley knife and a roll of stick-on Vinyl! Yeesh! Spare me!

Title: Re: Pimp or Chav Mobile!!!
Post by: clkgtrlm1 on September 05, 2007, 02:09:39 pm

Is ridiculous !

I am obvoiusly a Mercedes fan, but why pimp an old mans GT?

Let Merc do what they do best (Just Formula One unfortunately now, isn't it?) and don't mess.

Plus Brabus can do it tastefully.

Title: Re: Pimp or Chav Mobile!!!
Post by: JDS on September 05, 2007, 02:31:00 pm

I guess the owner paid for it and didn't do it as some kind of bad-taste bet ??? Darn that's one ugly mo-fo!

Title: Re: Pimp or Chav Mobile!!!
Post by: mike(liverpool boys) on September 05, 2007, 04:28:17 pm

Damn!!! did it crash into halfords front window?  ???

Title: Re: Pimp or Chav Mobile!!!
Post by: Rhino on September 05, 2007, 07:51:04 pm

I wonder how long those low profile wheels will last on our roads?

Title: Re: Pimp or Chav Mobile!!!
Post by: Lord Pig-Pen on September 06, 2007, 02:09:53 am

WHY? When Merc spend millions on development of such luxury machines does someone feel the need to make it look like a Vanden Plas Allegro with massive wheels.... and who was stupid enough to import it???
Nice to see that my Granada Scabriolet thread had sparked an interest in the horrid and tasteless "modified car" scene. If only I had the camera to hand the other day in Southampton.... The "Fast & Furious" style Triumph Acclaim (Beige with Matt black stock wheels and massive Halfords rear wing) was a cracker!
PP

Title: Re: Pimp or Chav Mobile!!!
Post by: nopanic - neil on September 06, 2007, 10:11:39 am

Quote from: Lord Pig-Pen on September 06, 2007, 02:09:53 am

WHY? When Merc spend millions on development of such luxury machines does someone feel the need to make it look like a Vanden Plas Allegro with massive wheels.... PP

(http://www.multiart.nu/fulabilar/standard_europa/austin_allegro_vandenplas.gif)

Ahhh - the Allegro VP - posh car c/w Square steering wheel and Vinyl roof - very 70's  ;D

Q - was this a 70's chav motor?

Title: Re: Pimp or Chav Mobile!!!
Post by: JDS on September 07, 2007, 08:46:40 am

On the subject of stupid conversions, this was in today's Metro ........ One question, why? (sorry about the quality, I don't have a scanner!)

Title: Re: Pimp or Chav Mobile!!!
Post by: shaunv156 on September 07, 2007, 12:30:58 pm

Only one word to day on the ferrari






WHY   ???