Help Pick a Lemons Theme - 2nd gen MR-2 edition

Last year I enabled a friend into starting a Lemons build by buying this running, driving '93 MR2 for $300 and making him buy it from me the next day. Now we're building the cage, mounting seats, harness etc. The car is actually a decent reliable driver right now. It's even tagged and insured, despite being gutted.

But we need a theme, and a good one too for the judges to let an actual good car in the race. So any suggestions are welcomed. Off the top of our head:

• Space shuttle "Laid Off Astonauts" - Out of the job because of SpaceX, Blue Origin, etc. Plenty of "For Hire" and "Will launch to moon for food" signs on the car. Space shuttle is a little played out, but could work with the right execution, and the MR-2 body lines are kinda space-y looking.

• "Poor man's Ferrari" - bodywork to mimic a more opulent mid-engined exotic. Also kind of played out.

• "Rich man's Fiero" - Hang some Fiero body panels

• El Senior-Dos-amino - Make it into a truck

Keep in mind the ugly "exo-cage" thanks to tall drivers and tiny car.

Too bad Star Wars is beginning to be played out.

I see an Imperial Storm Trooper there.

I'd love to see just how accurately you could pull off the Ferrari thing.

Maybe even a Magnum PI theme

Mister 2 - my mind immediately goes Austin Powers - bathroom scene. Not sure how you'd turn that into a theme.

Nice looking Lemon BTW!

Since SW20s used to be driven entirely by wanna-be playboys, the theme of "Ron Jeremy 2020: Get America Laid Again" would be rather hilarious.

Will you be at Gingerman in April? We just got our letter of condolences.

And nothing constructive to add. It would make a good storm trooper.

akylekoz wrote: Will you be at Gingerman in April? We just got our letter of condolences. And nothing constructive to add. It would make a good storm trooper.

We're going to try for Gingerman in October or Joliet in July.

Play on the exocage and do something like a snail or lobster

"Make America White Again"

All it needs is an orange toupe.

All I can see is this:

Make covers over the wheels with fins, add black slats to all the windows and add a periscope. Propellers and rudders out back will complete the illusion. Then, dress up as James Bond and Bond Girls, carry a Walther PPK and drink martinis.

pinchvalve wrote: All I can see is this: Make covers over the wheels with fins, add black slats to all the windows and add a periscope. Propellers and rudders out back will complete the illusion. Then, dress up as James Bond and Bond Girls, carry a Walther PPK and drink martinis.

This! This! A millioooooonnnnnn times this.

fanfoy wrote:

pinchvalve wrote: All I can see is this: Make covers over the wheels with fins, add black slats to all the windows and add a periscope. Propellers and rudders out back will complete the illusion. Then, dress up as James Bond and Bond Girls, carry a Walther PPK and drink martinis.

This! This! A millioooooonnnnnn times this.

Oh SNAP. I could absolutely rig up those fins on servos and make them steer with the wheel.

In reply to maschinenbau:

If you want to make it "hover" ["neutrally buoyant" in this case?] I bet you could rig up something with angled mirrors to hide the bottoms of the tires

fanfoy wrote:

pinchvalve wrote: All I can see is this: Make covers over the wheels with fins, add black slats to all the windows and add a periscope. Propellers and rudders out back will complete the illusion. Then, dress up as James Bond and Bond Girls, carry a Walther PPK and drink martinis.

This! This! A millioooooonnnnnn times this.

Million + 1

Appleseed wrote:

fanfoy wrote:

pinchvalve wrote: All I can see is this: Make covers over the wheels with fins, add black slats to all the windows and add a periscope. Propellers and rudders out back will complete the illusion. Then, dress up as James Bond and Bond Girls, carry a Walther PPK and drink martinis.

This! This! A millioooooonnnnnn times this.

Million + 1

+1,000,002 - Forget I even suggested an alternative. To loosely quote Adam Savage: "I reject my reality and substitute Pinchvalve's"

Pinchvalve FTW!

maschinenbau wrote:

fanfoy wrote:

pinchvalve wrote: All I can see is this: Make covers over the wheels with fins, add black slats to all the windows and add a periscope. Propellers and rudders out back will complete the illusion. Then, dress up as James Bond and Bond Girls, carry a Walther PPK and drink martinis.

This! This! A millioooooonnnnnn times this.

Oh SNAP. I could absolutely rig up those fins on servos and make them steer with the wheel.

And you could rig the horizontal stabilizers to the brake for cheaty downforce under braking.

Came here to suggest something else, but forgot it entirely when saw bond car... go with that.

Might be cheaper and less likely to get penalty laps if you start with a real Esprit.

Exoskellitin sais mad max to me.

Asian Magnum PI was all I could think of. No real way to do that without being racis' I suppose.

I was immediately thinking Magnum PI or Miami Vice.

If you're going with the Lotus Sub theme, you could also call it the "ToyBoata."

maschinenbau wrote:

akylekoz wrote: Will you be at Gingerman in April? We just got our letter of condolences. And nothing constructive to add. It would make a good storm trooper.

We're going to try for Gingerman in October or Joliet in July.

Those are the three that we run. We have an excess of drivers so I normally run the two Ginger man races. It all depends on who can make it.

I have had an itch to do another challenge MR2 and theme it after Racer X from speedracer. Only being the MR2 and 2 liters I wanted to cross the theme with dos equis beer, making the car "Racer Dos Equis" or Racer XX". Paint the car black, two big yellow "X's on the hood and doors. As a bonus the Driver can be the most interesting racer in the world. He ran the 24 hours of Daytona in 21 hours. When he pulls into "false grid" it becomes "the grid". etc