Should the coupe have looked like this?

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Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by Tenner » Mon Jan 28, 2019 6:41 pm

Despite my unending love for the Marina coupe, there was just one thing that always nagged me a little, the fact they used the same doors on the saloon and the coupe when even the Allegro was granted longer doors in 2-door form. It was probably a random cost-cut, but perhaps this is how the coupe ought to have looked.
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Re: Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by mickthefitter » Mon Jan 28, 2019 7:05 pm

Could the door take a little more length I wonder? To give the window glass more Ford Capri-like proportions?

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Re: Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by MarinaCoupe » Mon Jan 28, 2019 7:10 pm

Move the B post back four inches, extend the door by the same amount, but keep the standard wheelbase.

Extend the door windows and reduce the rear side window by 4”.

The photoshop has kept the rear window length and extended the chassis length.
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Re: Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by mickthefitter » Mon Jan 28, 2019 7:12 pm

Well noticed Chris, I didn't realise that.

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Re: Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by MarinaCoupe » Mon Jan 28, 2019 7:16 pm

Frank if you ever fancy making a proper Coupe, do you fancy it?

We could show it at the NEC as “if only BL had made one”.

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Re: Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by Tenner » Mon Jan 28, 2019 7:27 pm

The chassis is the same length, but I did make it with a pretty primitive program so it looks odder than it could.
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Re: Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by Morris McKinnon » Mon Jan 28, 2019 8:02 pm

I've always fancied doing an extended two door, or a two door saloon. Finding door glass that's long enough would be the hardest part I guess. You'd have to have custom glass made, unless there's a car out there with glass in almost identical profile that could be cut.

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Re: Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by Gee tc » Mon Jan 28, 2019 8:53 pm

Never bothered me...

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Re: Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by mickthefitter » Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:04 pm

I've been toying with bits of paper and a ball point pen. Not sure if it's that much different to the Teal Blue photoshop but I moved the B post back an estimated 4 inches.
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Re: Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by mickthefitter » Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:53 pm

Been trying a few different rear end designs
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Re: Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by Morris McKinnon » Mon Jan 28, 2019 11:41 pm

It's morphing into an Opel Rekord coupe.

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Re: Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by mickthefitter » Tue Jan 29, 2019 6:44 am

Morris McKinnon wrote: Mon Jan 28, 2019 11:41 pm It's morphing into an Opel Rekord coupe.
Which does have quite long side glass unlike the Vauxhall Firenza or Capri. I think the first drawing looks a bit like a two door saloon. I was aiming for something Firenza-like. And I was trying to make the rear profile look slimmer.

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Re: Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by david painter » Tue Jan 29, 2019 7:42 am

Think there was a lad on here from Northern Ireland bought a old scrap 2 door shell with the intention of moving the B Post back and extending the doors. Don't know how far the project got though
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Re: Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by marinabuoy » Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:21 pm

Ah that'll be me! And this was my rendition.

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I did rescue a car from the banger track with no engine or interior and practically no o/s front chassis leg either, and then I bought a similarly rotten MGBGT with a good engine in it as a donor, and then things started getting in the way - like new baby and new house...

As Gareth says, it's really only the glass that would be hard to get right. I suppose perspex would be a lot easier / cheaper but if I was going to go to all the effort I'd prefer to do it right.

Anyhow project is on hold rather than abandoned. I still have the shell in dry storage waiting for my attention. There's more pics / details in another thread I started called west coast coupes, although I haven't a clue how to do a link.


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Re: Should the coupe have looked like this?

Post by Tenner » Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:16 pm

That looks absolutely amazing! :thumbup:

Sure you weren't working at the BMC drawing office in a previous life? :lol:
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