mulholland rsr

[The Radium King]

hi. i love the look of the mulholland rsr ...



from what i can determine, he got the look by chopping the roof 2" (and flares, etc.). the front is an oem porsche windshield, so 2" lower acheived with an aggressive rake.

what i am wondering is whether i can achieve the same with a cabrio - rake the front windshield, modify the side glass, and modify a gt racing fiberglass roof clip or removeable hardtop? my concern is the hump over the engine on a cab - might be too high to get the mulholland look?

apologies if asked before; pls point me in the right direction ...

[RSBob]

You probably don't want to hear this, but it would no doubt be faster and cheaper to sell the cab and buy a wide body turbo look car to start with. Not saying it can't be done by throwing cubic dollars at it.

[The Radium King]

well, my thinking was that a widebody cab is a heckuva lot less $ than a widebody coupe, and if i went with a modified fiberglass hardtop then i could remove it, throw on some speedster humps and have a poor-mans speedster as well, what w the raked-back windshield.

my concern was that you might need to modify the engine lid angle as well, otherwise you get a weird hump at the back like this ...

[adias]

Chopped 911. To each his own.

[dwelle]

wow.

to each their own.

but that just doesn't look right.

at all...

[The Radium King]

[The Radium King]

[The Radium King]

looks cool. to me my own, i guess.

[tirwin]

Are the rear quarter windows OEM? I keep looking at it and I think I get it but then I don't get it.

[safe]

Kind of like it, a bit like a speedster coupe.
But you better be short and love it (the car), because the car will exclude a lot of people.

[Tom '74 911]

There is a looooong thread on this car (and other things) in the OT section here. I think there are some specifics discussed... you might want to look it up if you haven't read through it already.

[Flynt]

Car is bad ass. Story, too.
The IROC tail hides the hunchback.

[The Radium King]

Originally Posted by Flynt

Car is bad ass. Story, too.
The IROC tail hides the hunchback.

good catch! makes me happy. i also think the black car with the 'hump' has more of a chop than the mulholland car - side window seems to drop more from front to back, so lower at the back will make the hump more pronounced.

it would be nice if the only body modification were the rake of the windshield (and the side windows) and the rest of the work done to a removable hardtop. i guess a speedster windshield would be the OEM way to go, but big $ if you could even find one.

[Kraftwerk]

Start by chopping a 914 roof line. It looks bad-ass and there are plenty more / cheaper tubs available. With a stroked 2.0 or a 911 3.0 /or 3.2 engine it will supply many many grins.

[The Radium King]

[Jgordon]

I keep picturing the big Monty Python foot coming down and squashing it. Not my taste. I think speedsters are great. This, not so much.

[puddy]

I don't like it. The proportions are all wrong. The 911 has such a perfect shape, no need to alter it.

[sky1jord]

Originally Posted by puddy

i don't like it. The proportions are all wrong. The 911 has such a perfect shape, no need to alter it.

+1

[The Radium King]

i get it - eye of the beholder and all that. ultimately the question wasn't about the aethetics, but rather how to achieve the look in an unobtrusive manner as possible.

however, to address the aethestic question, and y'all already know what side i dress on this car, read the wiki entry on chopping and channeling:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopping_and_channeling

i think the most interesting part of the article is:

"Concept cars ... often undergo a lowering of their roofs, even if the vehicles are based on production models. Automakers use the chopping technique to make their show cars look more sleek and "racy", although it would be impractical for normal use."

so, the intention of the designer is often the look that is achieved by chopping, and the production cars only have higher rooflines to address things like visibility, headroom, back seat space, and the lowest common denominator of public use. i doubt this is the case for the 911, but, you know, in general.

auto makes that don't give a crap about fitting baby seats or golf clubs make some low, wide cars. that look cool. ferrari. lamborghini. lotus. and porsche - the gt1 was a chopped 911 with a speedster winshield. just say'n. and i don't golf either.

[RSBob]

If all 911s came originally with a more sloped/chopped windshield, our present more upright version would look weird. Yup beauty is in the eye of the familiar.