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I covered this car a week or so ago:

If you don’t recall….

This is actually made from what looked like a perfectly good Saab 900 turbo. The hack job was done for a TV show in the UK called Chop Shop, with the celebrity client being Martin Kemp (actor and 1980’s musical ponce).

You might also remember that the car was coming up for auction. Some Chop Shop hating types from a VW forum decided to put in a bid to give the car a notable end.

This was the prospective owners’ plan:

We are placing a sealed bid for the Martin Kemp Gangsta car when it comes up for auction on the 10th January. If we get it, it will be trashed and posted through the special VW Action ’shitheap’ letter box, and then environmentally recycled.

Everyone will be able to buy the right to set upon it with lumphammers and cutting tools by making a donation to Brads Cancer Foundation.

It’s fitting for what the 900 became, but a sad end for any Saab.

As it turns out, their sealed bid was successful:

We did buy it at Coys auction… when we told them what we were buying it for, they laughed, then waived the sales commission as their charitable contribution.

Everyone on the thread who has seen it in the flesh has said it is a fugly monstrosity. I picked it up today…. they were being diplomatic!!! On top of which it won’t start, has no papers (it is an ex scrapper btw) and is worth the sum of its salvageable parts, minus the labour to get them off.

Most people are happy that the car is to meet it’s end at Santa Pod during VW Action next September. Some still feel we are being wantonly destructive, but don’t seem to truly realise how awful this car is imho. The current state of play is that we are moving plans ahead to find as many ways as possible to raise money for Brads Cancer Foundation

It sounds like the car has around 9 months of life left, after which it will provide a few hours of entertainment and, hopefully, many dollars for their nominated charity.

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