As for our cars looking like 'vettes. Once I stopped at a local net cafe a few years ago, which was situated in a local shopping 'mall', as you guys call them. Parked in the under cover paring area just down from the net cafe and went to wander in, when one of the young lads who's employed to go around and collect the shopping trollies with a tractor and trailer came up and started 'ogling' the car. I stayed around and he came up and asked me if it was mine, which I told him it was.
Then he went off! How 'mad' the car was, and how damn 'sick' it was. He asked me if I knew what it was, which I thought was weird, as obviously I should know, it's my car. Seeing as he was only about 17, I figured he wouldn't know what a Purvis Eureka was, I just told him it was a kit car. If possible he became even more animated. Said his old man used to have one (at which point I became interested in location another Eureka), but then he said his old man sold it, which broke his (the kids) heart. I asked if he knew who bought it, but then he went on about how it was a very rare Corvette (I then lost interest in tracking the 'Eureka' down. It was apparently a very rare early '70's Corvette GT. Apparently. Went on and on about it. So I asked him if this was how you got into this rare Corvette GT by popping up the roof. He paused, totally goggled (thought his eyes were about to fall out), then said hell yeah, that's how his dads GT opened. To further peg this guy down, I asked if he wanted to see the engine. He just about was drooling by now, so he walked around to the front of the car. I went around the back and opened the engine hatch. He asked where I was going, so I pointed to the Subaru engine in the back of the car.
He came around the back and was further dumbfounded. Took him a bit to gather himself up and ask why I had modified the 'vette by putting a Subaru engine in the back when it should have a V8 up front. So I showed him the radiator up front. I guess the Subaru engine further threw him, as I kept referring to as a VW Kit car. So I then went and pointed to the registration sticker on the windscreen, which clearly states 'VW Coupe'. I think this is when I broke his brain, as he started to wander back to his tractor muttering something about how that was an excellent dodge to register a car as a different make & model to pay less tax.
Rare early '70's Corvette GT. That's apparently what I own, not a Purvis Eureka, on an early 1970 Beetle chassis. lol
Then he went off! How 'mad' the car was, and how damn 'sick' it was. He asked me if I knew what it was, which I thought was weird, as obviously I should know, it's my car. Seeing as he was only about 17, I figured he wouldn't know what a Purvis Eureka was, I just told him it was a kit car. If possible he became even more animated. Said his old man used to have one (at which point I became interested in location another Eureka), but then he said his old man sold it, which broke his (the kids) heart. I asked if he knew who bought it, but then he went on about how it was a very rare Corvette (I then lost interest in tracking the 'Eureka' down. It was apparently a very rare early '70's Corvette GT. Apparently. Went on and on about it. So I asked him if this was how you got into this rare Corvette GT by popping up the roof. He paused, totally goggled (thought his eyes were about to fall out), then said hell yeah, that's how his dads GT opened. To further peg this guy down, I asked if he wanted to see the engine. He just about was drooling by now, so he walked around to the front of the car. I went around the back and opened the engine hatch. He asked where I was going, so I pointed to the Subaru engine in the back of the car.
He came around the back and was further dumbfounded. Took him a bit to gather himself up and ask why I had modified the 'vette by putting a Subaru engine in the back when it should have a V8 up front. So I showed him the radiator up front. I guess the Subaru engine further threw him, as I kept referring to as a VW Kit car. So I then went and pointed to the registration sticker on the windscreen, which clearly states 'VW Coupe'. I think this is when I broke his brain, as he started to wander back to his tractor muttering something about how that was an excellent dodge to register a car as a different make & model to pay less tax.
Rare early '70's Corvette GT. That's apparently what I own, not a Purvis Eureka, on an early 1970 Beetle chassis. lol
