Your car appears to be scared of the ground...
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Er...You do realise that even a snotter is worth a few hundred quid don't you?
And the price of scrap is right up atm; I'd expect at least 80 quid in my hand if I weighed it in.
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Not a dig Penski, but is there a reason that none of the owners sort the body before spending cash on dropping them as far as they can? Some of these look pretty cool, but for me at least, they would look a lot better without the rust.
Spending money? You can get an angle grinder for 20 quid that will lower your car. A few are running coilovers (or converted struts) but lots just cut the coils.
Of the ones with surface rust, a couple are virtually impossible to get parts for never mind panels (Datsun, Mitsubishi...) so can't be fully sorted until bits are found. I know the Datsun's owner just got a 'spares' car though... but most are just driven and enjoyed. A bit of surface grot dosnt hurt anyone.
The white W123 koop is 'done' (check the front valance in the 'before' photo :|), Dave's green W123 saloon has a spattering of surface rust but he just likes driving a low Merc (about 6" lower at the rear...)
Ultimately though, a lot of people just don't mind their car being a bit scruffy.
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Join up; there are several E28 owners there already. They'd be able to advise well about lowering it.
RR is as much about standard cars as it is about Allegros scraping their sills and trying to fit 155-section tyres on 12j wheels.
All we ask is that you're passionate about what you're doing, share what you like and approach everything with an open mind. After all, "everything has potential" and "it's all in the treatment, not the car."
Besides, we don't have anyone from your line of work there and it would be great to have your POV on certain discussions. Almost every other part of the 'automotive' industry is represented from recovery men to F1 engineers.
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It's his daily driver while he finishes his V8-engined Sierra (and his cortina...and his mk1 MR2...)
Nobody claimed it was 'retro' apart from you...
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Retro is an attitude, not an age. Certainly when the term is used with regards to RR. The site is filled with everything from pre-war commercial vehicles to modern stuff. The common theme is that very little of it is stock. With more modern stuff, the treatment is key. Take a mk3 Golf; stock, it's a cheap car. It does the job, looks average and you can get a fast version.
Give it the kind of treatment you find at www.cleaned.be and it certainly fits in with the 'Retro Rides' philosophy. Inclusive, Not Exclusive.
We just had the end-of-year awards (with a ceremony and everyfink). The car of 2007 is a 5-door mk3 Cortina Estate that has been turned into a 3-door van, very heavily modified and now runs a 5.7 litre V8 with Mustang rear end (semi-spaceframed) and the 'most anticipated car of 2008' is a mk3 Escort...With two engines.
However it seems that only you and Fox don't understand this concept and I find myself repeatedly explaining it on here...And Fox making the same post he made after your one...Even though nobody laughed the first 200 times he made it.
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The one quoted just a few minutes ago..the wheels are bending at quite an angle
The wheels are straight
When you lower a car that uses semi-trailing arm suspension, it effects the amount of camber which the wheels experience; the lower, the more negative camber. Call it a quirk of the suspension design.
It also has the added benefit of tucking the tops of the wheels inside the arch, meaning you can go lower without hitting anything.
The big silver saloon quoted is actually on air ride meaning that the suspension can be adjusted to any point between the two extremes (the 'before' and 'after' shots
) at any time with just flick of a switch.*n
It's on air. Bloke called tigran on RR bought it a wee while back..
Are you thinking of Christoff? Made the V8 coffee table and used to have a blue SEC on juice (built in 2 days and used as a wedding car...)?
Now building a silver SEL with new hydraulic kit. There's a great build thread in Readers Rides on RR.
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