![]() ![]() After a quick phone call, he made the gruelling 28-hour drive from Bournemouth up to the very north of Scotland to pick up the American import shell from a guy who had two or three sat there is various stages of restoration. Step one was finding a body shell, and Pipey managed to track down the lesser-coveted Series 2, 2+2 shell online. “Especially when you’re not rich.” So Pipey set about building his E-Type the way he does best – by concocting a Frankenstein of sorts.Ĭan you see where this is going? A Crazy Idea “Being in your 20s and wanting to own an E-Type these days is a pretty ambitious task,” Pipey tells me. When Pipey set his sights on an E-Type he knew it was a lofty ambition. This will be the third of Pipey’s cars that we’ve featured here on Speedhunters: the first was a ground-scraping bridge-ported Mazda 13B engine Mk1 Golf GTi sat over a VW Beetle floorpan the second was a crazy-quick VW Passat W8 with a Volkswagen K70 body swapped on top. Pipey is one of the true characters of the UK modifying scene, and when word gets out that he’s working on something new, people tend to sit up and take note. If the name Pipey McGraw rings a bell with you then good, you’ve been paying attention. This is very much a work-in-progress record of Pipey McGraw’s 20B-powered, wide-body Jaguar E-Type. Ironically, it was a build that I discovered via social media, and one that’s been causing a heck of a commotion every time there’s an update posted. It was with these thoughts swimming around in my mind that I wanted to bring you a unique build thread of sorts. The right cars of course get featured on fine automotive portals such as this, but even in bringing you the finished article in as much detail as we possibly can, I feel that we miss a trick in showing you some of the processes that went into making the one person or company’s vision a reality. It’s much less community-based and more everyone scrabbling for their own slice of the limelight. Now instead, we see carefully curated and filtered snippets of builds, if we’re lucky, and follow the right people. It felt like you’d been on that journey with them, and maybe even influenced the direction that their car has taken. ![]() I don’t know about you, but for me there was something massively satisfying about seeing someone’s initial ‘may as well start one of these’ posts with lofty ambitions of what they wanted their car to become, and then seeing their plans come into fruition months or years down the line. Most of us can spot an ‘owners’ club’ car a mile away.īut there’s one definite downside to the fall of the online forum, and that’s build threads. This isn’t hyperbole – whatever make or model it may be – it happens. If all your saw was what was being done in your immediate owners’ club circle, then you’d only be able to draw upon that for inspiration, and very quickly lots of cars would start to look the same. This is a great thing for opening your eyes to what’s out there, and bringing in influences from other areas. Whereas not too many years ago we’d all be neatly divided off into our specific interests in the way of online forums, nowadays everyone is mixed up in the big melting pot that is your chosen form of social media, be it Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Bebo, Myspace, whatever. The ferocious rise of social media means that, as auto enthusiasts in 2017, we’re now exposed to a much wider gamut of niches, genres and subcultures than ever before. ![]()
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