FTO Roadster

phunkydude · Post by **phunkydude** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:55 pm

Not sure if it's from the project below, thought this still has the back seats'

https://www.facebook.com/FTORoadster

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 6:37 pm

It's quite cool, but it was just a temporary thing, they made it out of a car they're about to scrap.
I believe they just wanted a convertible FTO for a meet.

MaxD · Post by **MaxD** » Wed Aug 20, 2014 11:34 pm

This one was rotten and had a quote of £5k to repair it, so the guy cut the roof off and kept the car until the MOT expired. He's just about sold all the nice parts now. Structurally it's not in a good way, but it doesn't look bad.

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 4:12 pm

Yeah they did quite a tidy job of it!

Chebus · Post by **Chebus** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 5:30 pm

Damn that looks good, would you lose a lot of rigidity with no roof though?

Daniel2019 · Post by **Daniel2019** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 6:55 pm

Chebus wrote:Damn that looks good, would you lose a lot of rigidity with no roof though?

Yep, correct. Especially considering the FTO wasn't really designed for it.

Even in cars with shells designed to be convertibles from factory there is often a big difference. Apparently in things like the Nissan 350/370 convertibles are very different to standard roofed versions. Can only imagine the difference in a car not designed to handle it.

Sahin · Post by **Sahin** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 7:38 pm

Haha bullshit I've cut a roof off an fto before and it's not that structural! The whole middle of it is like 2mm thick

Sahin · Post by **Sahin** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 7:39 pm

But I'm not an engineer and my comment probably is stupid lol

Post by **Bennoz** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 7:47 pm

This ^^^

Astron_Boy · Post by **Astron_Boy** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 7:48 pm

Sahin wrote:Haha bullshit I've cut a roof off an fto before and it's not that structural! The whole middle of it is like 2mm thick

Sahin wrote:But I'm not an engineer and my comment probably is stupid lol

Very f**king so.

To be precise.

ObsidianRadio · Post by **ObsidianRadio** » Sun Aug 31, 2014 12:31 am

Judging by those images, I can already taste the rice

Doesn't change the fact it'll be f**king mint though!

silverGPX · Post by **silverGPX** » Sun Aug 31, 2014 7:55 am

I don't think they will finish it, looks horrendous

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Sun Aug 31, 2014 10:32 am

It's already been scrapped.

ObsidianRadio · Post by **ObsidianRadio** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 11:36 pm

Technikhaus wrote:It's already been scrapped.

Why am I not surprised

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 4:14 pm

It had a rotten chassis, so before scrapping it they decided to have some fun and cut the roof off for the weekend, then after that they just scrapped it straight away.

ObsidianRadio · Post by **ObsidianRadio** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 7:16 pm

Technikhaus wrote:It had a rotten chassis, so before scrapping it they decided to have some fun and cut the roof off for the weekend, then after that they just scrapped it straight away.

I was talking about the purple one, not Estelle's red one... I know that was taking the piss. Haha

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