It's true that I spend a lot of time dreaming and not much time doing amazing mods, but I wouldn't say that that's because I'm just a dreamer who doesn't do anything, to be honest if I had the money to do amazing things to my Imp then I would, but I'm sure there are a few of you out there in the same situation as myself, a student who'se too skint most of the time to buy most of what I'd need to make a capable performance motor, if I had the choice between being out in the garage fitting a 998 into the Imp, sticking big wheelarches on it, getting it looking dead hard and taking it out rallying, and sitting here dreaming of big engines and the like, I'd be out there in the garage like a shot, but I just can't afford to buy much for the Imp, and often that slows me down.
I think there may be a case of the grass being greener n the other side as well, like DerbyDan said, we see custom cars from Europe and the US in magazines and on TV, and human nature compels us to rose-tint their custom scenes, and think that in the US and Germany everyone's building amazing custom cars and starting all sorts of crazy and ingenious projects, forgetting for a moment that although there are some talented guys abroad making amazing motors, they're in the same sort of numbers as they are here, ie in a minority, and that it's just that the mags only show us the nice ones, whearas we look at the UK and we see a few amazing motors, surrounded by loads of not-so amazing ones and lots of modern mingers and nedmoblies, and we think that we must have less amazing cars than they do. I'm sure if we were to ask some of our members from outside the UK what they think of when they see the UK hot-rodding scene compared to their own they'll mention that we've got lots of nice cars and their scene is sort of dull by comparison. It's just part of human nature I reckon.
I think there may be a case of the grass being greener n the other side as well, like DerbyDan said, we see custom cars from Europe and the US in magazines and on TV, and human nature compels us to rose-tint their custom scenes, and think that in the US and Germany everyone's building amazing custom cars and starting all sorts of crazy and ingenious projects, forgetting for a moment that although there are some talented guys abroad making amazing motors, they're in the same sort of numbers as they are here, ie in a minority, and that it's just that the mags only show us the nice ones, whearas we look at the UK and we see a few amazing motors, surrounded by loads of not-so amazing ones and lots of modern mingers and nedmoblies, and we think that we must have less amazing cars than they do. I'm sure if we were to ask some of our members from outside the UK what they think of when they see the UK hot-rodding scene compared to their own they'll mention that we've got lots of nice cars and their scene is sort of dull by comparison. It's just part of human nature I reckon.
;D ;D) and you're right they are very commercial these days, at least most British customisers are doing it because they like messing about with their motors and big money comes into it much less.