while not being able to sleep again last nite i was flipping through the e-bay pages looking at nothing really and i came across an add that had a link to this website:
http://tributeautomotive.com/index.html
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wow i actually really like it, im sure its probably more difficult to fit than they say lol 
looks close to the 250 gto, but i do belive there needs to be more of a space between the front wheel and the start of the door as there is vents there
Apart from the cooling duct on the rear wings, I actually like this as well. So yet another thing to add to the list of things I can’t afford at the mo.
How do you get the roof off ? 
the kit itself is only around £1695, so it isn’t that much…plus as it’s a body conversion unlike a lotus 7 conversion it doesn’t need an IVA test.
this is a real one!
Please everybody; have a good look at the original picture and ask yourself why such a beautiful shape should be blasphemed like that. I’m sorry but that kit is horrible horrible horrible in almost every way. I remember about 20yrs ago someone selling an F40 kit based on a TR7 for goodness sake. If I had this sort of money to spend on my 5, then this would possibly be the very last way I’d spend it.
Nice colour though
if we all had the same taste it would be a very boring world! I spoke to him earlier today and he said that it might be at the spring rally if it is it will be in the finished paint and not just primer…
You’re absolutely right, Muppet, and I say it with my tongue firmly in my cheek but I couldn’t possibly appreciate this like I do the original. Shame I can’t make it to the Spring Rally and see it in the flesh, as it were…
Didn’t somebody to a kit for the 5 to make it look like an Aston??
Without a doubt the original is so very much better. I guess I like it because, for a change, someone has made a kit car that doesn’t look bad. The only other one I’d have would be an Ultima.
and yes you can buy a front bumper that will make your mx look similar to an Aston.
for a mk1
and a mk2/2.5
another Aston conversion
The majority of people who build kit cars do so only once, just for the fun of undertaking
a project and finishing up with their ‘dream’ car.
The hardest part is choosing a kit which will deliver exactly what you are looking for,
something that will fulfil your aspirations to create your own car.
a project and finishing up with their ‘dream’ car.
The hardest part is choosing a kit which will deliver exactly what you are looking for,
something that will fulfil your aspirations to create your own car.
The Aspire kit is based on the Mazda Mx5
Mk1, an economical, inexpensive and readily available donor vehicle.
Just like a Classic car, the Aspire is built up from an existing car
and the amount of refurbishment to the original is your choice to
make. The Mx5 panels are removed and simply replaced with the Aspire
kit car panels.
i personally think there should be far more kits to change the look of your mx5 not replicas and i no about the italia , pitcrew my fave and others
When I was with the MR2 club back in the day there was a kit, I believe it was called the Vortex, that I thought was a good stab at things. Wasn’t trying to copy any more prestigious marque - just going out there alone and building a good looking bespoke kit car (this may explain my fondness for TVR’s and Lotus’). I’d like to see perhaps something like that for the 5.
i also like tvr and lotus mainly for the unigue ness and not following the silly car market trends i would choose a unique and quality bespoke car than mass produced of the line rubbish we genrally get these days i do belive the passion for building cars has died, the common car has no style anymore they all look too similar
This is hideous in the flesh; the maroon demo car is a bastardised VR-Limited, totally ruined. The proportions are all wrong, panel fit was bad, detailing crude. Its probably no worse than that Aussie MX5-Aston abomination though.
The common problem with all these kits, including the Simpson Italias and the now-numerous copies, and Pitcrews, is that they attempt to impose the image of another model of car on the MX5 substructure, usually with the result that the proportions look slightly odd. I’d don’t mind replicas, but they are much better when they throw away the donor body, and start afresh. And at least they will then be a proper replica.
These bolt on conversions will merely consign perfectly good, solid, MX5s to the bin (the donor car needs to be sound for these kits). I really like the kit being discussed here:
http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=424304
http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=448940
ie. throw away the rusted out body, keep the bits that don’t wear out (suspension, drivetrain, PPF etc) and hang on to custom spaceframe with a properly proportioned body over it. I don’t care much for the various Atom ripoffs currently infecting the kitcar scene; they have all the style of a meccano kit. I’m sure it’s possible for someone to come up with a kit using the MX5 subframes, and even the roof frame.
i like the pitcrew cos i belive its not a replica of anything its just an inspirational adaption and the proportions look great in eyes i think sometimes they can look far better 
the reasons for going down the body conversion route over the complete rechassising is that you don’t need to get the finish result IVA tested which is a real pain.
All of these conversions are like marmite you either love them or hate them but if we all had the some tastes it would be such a boring world.
Very cool write up of the Simpson Italia 2 GTC
http://www.forgottenfiberglass.com/?p=15099
Which I still don’t quite like 100% for the previous reasons. But a targa top is in the works.
And lovely build photos, Mk1 v Mk2.
