Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Derived from Q-ships

I'm going for Q ship designed to look like an unarmed Merchantman until a U-boat surfaces....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship

Edit too slow....

https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration/q-registration-numbers

If for e.g. the engine and transmission are from another car you should, technically, submit it for approval via an engineer approved by the Dvla (in the same way that you’d register a kit car), meaning that what looks like for e.g. a standard saloon car might have the motive assembly from something rather pokey, but the only external giveaway is the Q registration.

People doing restomods often try to keep a sufficient % of the original car to be allowed to keep the original plate- going to a Q plate is seen as spoiling the overall aesthetic.

But I do like the heavily armed merchantman thing, as it’s quite cool.

Maybe they used the Q designation for the plate based on the “cannon surprise” ships.