If you can't wait to own that Ferrari you have always wanted.....
 

http://www.retroforza.com/
http://www.retroforza.com/images/carimages/mainpic.jpg

NOTE: First read about it here;
http://carnuts.us/viewtopic.php?t=778

Certain angles, it looks hot, other angles it's pretty bad.

Performance?

Drop a V-8 302, a turbo or a supercharger in there and you will be just fine.;)

http://www.retroforza.com/?page=gallery
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http://www.retroforza.com/images/car...ll/coopmod.jpg
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THere are a couple of kits that don't make the miata look like another car, they just make it look different than stock. That I sort of understand, but the kits that make it look like a different car, I don't understand. I'd love to have a classic ferrari from the 50s/60s, but I can't see tooling around in that thing since it would look vaguely like a ferrari..... with the driving experience of a miata which, while very good, I think is probably light years from a classic 60's ferrari.

Here's a decent article about just this thing by Top Gear's James May. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=P8&xml=/motoring/2006/07/01/mrmay01.xml

The coupe doesn't look bad... many moons ago there were companies that made GT250 bodies that went on Datsun Z cars, it was my dream to build one of those.

Having one of these things is like having a Big Schwanz and not being able to get it up.

Actually I think it is more like having a very tiny schwanz that you can get up.

i suspect it's more like a tiny schanz , that looks like it got stuck inbetween a big zipper, got infected, goes limp all the time, and smells like a sewer.... in other words , one that only a total slag will be willing to ride...

Driving one of those would be a bit like getting a blow job from queer. It might feel good, but you sure as hell wouldn't want your friends to see you doing it. (Many apologies to the biker bar grafitti I stole, then altered this from. The original began: Riding a Japanese bike...")

Odd. First thing I thought of when I looked at the pictures was: It kinda looks like a Miata. Then I went back and actually read the blurb you copied-n-pasted and realized that, yes, it's based on the Miata.

PC response: Not my cup of tea.
un-PC response: What a way to spend thousands of dollars to make a $3000 used Miata worth even less.

you mean the Hells Angels saying : "i'de rather see my sister in a whorehouse, then a brother on a jap bike" ?

Those look horrid! :eek:

If there was an award for most humorous response I'd have give it to svandamme.:D

Just like all the other Miata conversions, the proportions are just wrong. They look more like parodies than replicas.

The tail is just a tad over the edge but put a chrome roll bar on it, paint it a Brit green and slap some wire rims and I think it would look pretty decent.

Ask yourself (and be truthful) if Mazda refitted the Miata to look like that instead of it being a kit would you be so harsh on it? A few might but I bet there are those who wouldn't.

Thats terrible.

If someone were to take a production car, and backdate it to the original concept car, that would be cool. Love to see that done to a Boxster.

Most of this is bad(but not all):
http://www.clubmiatamonteregie.ca/les_prototypes.htm

http://www.clubmiatamonteregie.ca/m08.jpg
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