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Z300swb?

5 May 2015, 5:54pm
Masybe someone with photoshop skills could to better but here is a start


The bonnet will be cut and changed a bit to fit the standard standard door skins and the little side wings on the Z300S.

Then when I feel like Ferrari Friday I undo the bonnet hinges and swap the fronts.

Maserati Monday and it is just swap them over again.

What could possibly go wrong?
5 May 2015, 9:32pm
WorldClassAccident wrote:
...What could possibly go wrong?


Just because something can be done- doesn't mean it should. The proportions of the cars are too different and although Chris/Dan's skills will make it fit, it will never look right.
Suggest you extra sweet-talk herself and buy the red demonstrator.
6 May 2015, 9:19am
The red one has gone and no way I can get another 2 seater convertible past the boss.

It is a little bit of narrowing to compensate for no door skins. The back ends of the two cars were about the same length so proportions not that different.

I agree that is may turn out like the result of a bad car crash in a Tribute showroom but I had the same worries when getting the Z300S made and that turned out okay.

Just ordered some coilovers to drop the front on mine a bit. Pictures of the fitting and blood at the weekend probably.
6 May 2015, 12:52pm
I wonder if Chris and Dan have considered using different ends of two their two kits to produce two new models. because the Kobra and Z300S don't have grp doors skins it would be an easy job to create a Zobra variant with a Z300S front and the Kobra rear or vice versa. Anybody fancy a go at photoshop?
6 May 2015, 1:45pm
WCA, I see your photoshop skills are improving. Slightly!! Now where did I leave my white stick. LOL.
6 May 2015, 1:50pm
A bit of digital t-cut from someone and the paint jobs will blend seamlessly
6 May 2015, 5:33pm
WorldClassAccident wrote:
The red one has gone ....


Oh no !!! Do we know for how much???
6 May 2015, 5:34pm
WorldClassAccident wrote:
It is like they have built it already!

:-)


If Stevie Wonder did car styling...
6 May 2015, 5:50pm
He may have done the photoshopping although I heard he was in hospital with burnt ears after answering the iron
6 May 2015, 7:26pm
Must have taken him ages to iron his shirt with the phone then.

In short... just don't !!!
6 May 2015, 7:59pm
Here you have a couple of quick Photoshops (although not too good) just to give you a rough idea.

6 May 2015, 8:17pm
I rest my case.
7 May 2015, 5:28pm
Hinges ordered
Bonnet pins ordered
Lowering kit ordered
Deposit being stashed away from wife
Apologies to Ian being prepared
7 May 2015, 5:42pm
What you going for, cobra front ? Should look interesting,and another reason why choosing black paint was a good idea.
I waved at you and shouted on Saturday I think it was I was just stepping out of motor home as you drove past in the z300. Ed.
7 May 2015, 7:23pm
How bout an swb front with gte grill with a Maserati a6g rear and roof line
7 May 2015, 7:25pm
I quite like the Gigi concept car from the side in white.
7 May 2015, 9:28pm
as per the original picture- Z300S back end with a 250SWB front.
8 May 2015, 6:59am
I think a cobra front on the 250 would also look interesting.
8 May 2015, 9:24am
a big scary monster said "I think a cobra front on the 250 would also look interesting".




I have tried to improve a little on previous Photoshops.





I´m sure that some of these mix n match ideas are not to everyones taste but
many new ideas could be created this way.
8 May 2015, 3:47pm
DSG4ME wrote:


I´m sure that some of these mix n match ideas are not to everyones taste but
many new ideas could be created this way.


It's alive!! and I'm going to call him the Z300 short wheelbase...



...but only because Bertini was already taken.
8 May 2015, 5:16pm
Important to have the before picture



And just because pictures can be deceptiver - measure things accurately


It is currently riding at 1 beer bottle spacing
8 May 2015, 9:28pm
WorldClassAccident wrote:
Important to have the before picture

It is currently riding at 1 beer bottle spacing


Mmmmm- Black Sheep Ale. Now that's one good decision you've made lately.
9 May 2015, 6:22am
Ian, you have to trust me on this. If I had described the Z300S before it was built you would have said it would never work.

You saw it and you bought it.

My only real ability in life is to envisage things others cannot.

Having said that, I do occasionally get it wrong. The anchovies and Stilton sandwich I had last night after nine Duvals was not improved by adding caper berries.