davej
Part of things
Posts: 314
|
|
Oct 17, 2006 19:32:28 GMT
|
I loved project bottle rocket, I bought a Skoda Rapid as my first car in 1994 when i was 17, I must have read that feature 100 times! I wanted to do so much to my car, but being a student, not much happened. Ahh, the memories... I always wondered what its fate was.  |
| |
 + 2007 Octavia Vrs estate, 1971 Beetle project, 2004 Shogun Sport |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 17, 2006 19:40:13 GMT
|
|
Memories are made of this.... ;D ;D ;D
This takes me right back to when i was 16-17.
I agree with what everyone else said about street machine back in the day. Fantastic. Like Rmad says though, not many people really shared that vision, shame really.
I remember the issue with the citroen ami's and the one with the wacky 2cv pickup from france. I remember taking that one into college and asking everyone what car they thought it was. No one got it, most people thought it was a beetle.
I remember a spate of purple cars too. A viva, a kadett and that classic capri that turned up on ebay a while back.
I wish i still had all those back issues but for some reason street machine used to fall apart as soon as i got it then. I've still got every issue from when rich nicholls took over and they've all got their pages too. Must be because they didnt get read as much ;D ;D
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 17, 2006 19:43:37 GMT
|
|
See now for some reason I missed this whole era of Street Machine... I think i was too busy obsessing over 'obvious' old motors at that stage.
I'm regretting it now of course..... If I'd known how to really do a skoda properly when I had one on a plate would have been so much cooler.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 17, 2006 20:42:21 GMT
|
I was a [glow=red,2,300]huge[/glow] fan of street machine in those days and project bottle rocket was superb, everybody (in a general public kinda way) thought skodas were naff but that just showed what could be done with a little imagination. I've still got all my copies boxed up in my parents loft and I wan't to get them down and have another look now  |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 17, 2006 21:08:24 GMT
|
|
Can anyone remember the street machine Mazda pick up? Mint green?, slammed, alloys and lots of ice, used to see it about in Kings Lynn a lot years ago.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 17, 2006 21:13:00 GMT
|
Can anyone remember the street machine Mazda pick up? Mint green?, slammed, alloys and lots of ice, used to see it about in Kings Lynn a lot years ago. It's in Seth's old pics thread! |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 17, 2006 21:20:36 GMT
|
|
Holy cow, so it is!
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 17, 2006 21:20:54 GMT
|
Yeah big up Street Machine  I shared the vision and picked it up now and then, but as a student for a lot of my post 17 years i couldnt afford a cool car, and there were few pages in the mag in later years. Wish i'd bought more though, i'd have subs if it was still out, and really embrace the DMC theory. things are possible on a budget, with some creativity. its running the damn things that costs!  Wheres those pictures?!  |
| |
 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
|
|
|
|
Oct 17, 2006 21:22:36 GMT
|
 look at that line . sums us lot up alternative cars with attitude ;D |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 17, 2006 22:05:46 GMT
|
|
/\ Ratdat's car on the cover in its first guise! Always thought it odd that they featured it twice.....
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 18, 2006 11:38:40 GMT
|
/\ Ratdat's car on the cover in its first guise! Always thought it odd that they featured it twice..... Prob coz it wnt into the hands of a new owner, my mate Mark, who then resprayed it and fitted wires. Now sold on and has disappreared, like so many other feature cars. The ex-SM mint Mazda mini was stretched into a crewcab, bodydropped and repainted blue by its new owner, unfortunately its never seen the light of day and has languished in a garage for years since being finished. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 18, 2006 11:53:52 GMT
|
|
its a real shame that there are soem cool cars about but never get to be seen. id love to see these cars
|
| |
|
|
madmart
Part of things
love is: valvebounce in top gear
Posts: 559
|
|
Oct 18, 2006 11:59:19 GMT
|
anybody got a copy of cc with the bottle rocket in ? maybee build a replica or mk2 version? I remember it in the mag many moons ago also  |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 18, 2006 12:06:44 GMT
|
|
one car i would like to see again is the red cal-look beetle they did,it was just soooo right and i even ended up modding a 1/24 beetle kit into a replica,anyone got a pic? i've tried googling it but can't find anything on it.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 18, 2006 16:25:44 GMT
|
|
Twas a great mag, grew up reading it then got to work on it. Sad day when it went but thats life I guess. There is deffo a market for a similar mag now especially as it looks like Retro Cars is on its way out, time will tell............
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 18, 2006 17:59:38 GMT
|
|
I've been thinking of building a Project Bottle Rocket style car for a while now, i even have the full build up in Street Machine. I've also got a Rapid sat in my lock up awaiting some inspiration.
|
| |
Current Fleet
2006 Skoda Roomster 1.4 16v (Daily)
1990 Autozam Revue 1.5 Auto Canvas Top (Project)
1993 VW Transporter LWB 2.4D (Camper Project)
1994 Skoda Favorit Foreman II Pick Up (Project)
1979 Skoda Estelle 120LS. (Project)
1982 Kip Kompakt 300 Caravan (Project)
|
|
skinny
Part of things
Posts: 22
|
|
|
|
Well, if you've got the full build up you can start scanning so we can do some teenage reminiscing!  |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 19, 2006 10:06:11 GMT
|
|
come on get it on here .
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 19, 2006 12:11:22 GMT
|
|
Great days they were, I don't know why SM didn't survive. In its heyday I lived just down the road from Pete Darwells place (Mechspray) and used to drool over some of the motors he'd have in for spraying, ah the golden days of Metalflake and Candy.
|
| |
Joe Richards
1986 VW Scirocco GTS
Destined for VWDRC racing
|
|
|
|
|
Oct 19, 2006 13:07:33 GMT
|
bottle rocket inspired me to go out and buy a 130 rabid, then do absolutely nothing with it, except flog the tits off it with a great big sh1t eating grin on my face. ;D dmc had so much potential, but for me turned into a complete waste of time and effort.imo. you guys in the south must have got more dole than us northern monkeys back then, cos i couldnt even build a decent push bike on the money i got off the nash. |
| |
|
|
|
|
I shared the vision and picked it up now and then, but as a student for a lot of my post 17 years i couldnt afford a cool car, and there were few pages in the mag in later years. Wish i'd bought more though, i'd have subs if it was still out, and really embrace the DMC theory. things are possible on a budget, with some creativity. its running the damn things that costs! 
