Sugga MCs

[hirez]

Spotted while pottering about the local aerial. I suspect a 90 chassis, PT Cruiser body and some fettling with a big hammer.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/ree_/]

I think you are right in your assessment of component parts. christiffer might correct me on that though.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

The chassis didn't come out too well in the photos. Oh for a HDR cameraphone.

[edwards.livejournal.com]

I have to say that it's not horrible. In fact, I quite like it.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I think I'd prefer this thing:
http://www.libeljournal.com/album/Random/tn/humber.jpg.html

... Which has exactly the right amount of Chappist post-apocalypse about it.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

"Crusty from the Toolroom: My life with the Mutoid Waste Company."

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

I would buy a novel (textual or graphic) with this vehicle on the cover.

In a heartbeat.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It might take me rather longer than that to write it.

I should also mention that I bought an LP purely because it had a similar vehicle on the cover:

http://audioheaven-alexcro.blogspot.com/2008/02/grindcrusher-2-ultimate-earache-2lp.html

[jozafeen.livejournal.com]

Yup - I think it's fab too, though the colour mings a bit!

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's the colour, but it's screaming "Kubelwagen Updated" at me

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I guess it's an approximation of desert camo.

I also suspect it's a modern version of this:

http://volvoadventures.com/21TP_P2104spec.html

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

It's an astonishing bit of work.

One does wonder why the chap didn't just get a Sugga, though.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Perhaps he (one assumes a chap, doesn't one?) had the donor cars lying about.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I guess.

I went googling for it - a project of that magnitude ought to have *some* web presence - but all I came across was this nugget of loveliness:

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1511&wpcf7=json

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Cor. That's a marvellous object.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Quite. I very much wish I could plan to make one, but I can't.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Definitely the body off a PT Cruiser, you're right. I'm not overconvinced by the nose treatment, although that is very 40s military utilitarian. Suppose it's one way to fill the Cruiser's capacious wheel arches. Quite like the work on mounting the big whip aerial, too.

Definite points for effort. Even if I still prefer the 101 for my post-apocalyptic transport look.

[jendama.livejournal.com]

Why is the back license plate yellow and the front white? Just curious.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

EU regulations. IIRC, you're not supposed to show a white light/reflection to the rear. Unless it's reversing lights.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

Not EU; that's a home-grown bit of lunacy.

I can't think of another country that has asymmetric front and rear plates, leaving aside the old Italian allowance for design integrity over visibility (and quite right too) and various places where front plates are optional.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

[FX: Further Google]

So it is.

(I am nearly the last person to go off on one about the EU.)

[mattydesade.livejournal.com]

I kinda like it too. Suspect the front end is different cos that's where the PT was crashed. Should be matt black though. All cut up off-roaders should be black. IMO.