Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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Jul 18, 2013 21:59:27 GMT
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Simon has put it a bit better than I did I think.
When 'street machine style' is mentioned I think the b289 style, but not on VWs.
Pastel or single bright colours, graphics, splatter paint engine bays, smoothing, dechroming, modern wheel styles on older cars, custom tweed/cloth interiors/door panels, often heavy body mods like chops, targa roofs, coupling, etc. all the stuff that went out of fashion by the early 00's.
SM cars were also generally newer than CC ones, or just cars CC werent interested in covering. They even modded a brand new truck as their project mini truck at one point.
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Last Edit: Jul 18, 2013 22:06:02 GMT by Dez
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Jul 18, 2013 22:01:35 GMT
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Nic Manns.. sorry , Gary Ellis's red moggy convertable is still my fave Moggy thou ever , the proportions are just spot on . The Beardmore Brothers creations ( all of em really ! ) are also prime Street Machine material and would be awesome to see again . The pink shortened SD1 on image splits is currently dark metallic blue and living in spain I believe .
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Last Edit: Jul 19, 2013 17:31:57 GMT by gotwood
You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !
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stealthstylz
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Jul 18, 2013 22:41:41 GMT
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Has anybody got pictures of a blue Sunbeam Rapier that had been made into a Targa roof, dropped on Mille Miglia softline 5 spokes and had a rover v8 iirc?
Also a blue stacklight Merc also converted to Targa roof and slammed?
They were built when there was a definite UK style. Nobody else was really doing anything similar.
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Seth
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MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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Jul 18, 2013 23:35:34 GMT
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Is it really time to pull this photo out again?  and this one.  maybe this one.  and this one.  and, erm.  |
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stealthstylz
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What happened to Tony Zammit's Zodiac? That was a cool car. Is that Sam Anker's Moggy or a different one?
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Has anybody got pictures of a blue Sunbeam Rapier that had been made into a Targa roof, dropped on Mille Miglia softline 5 spokes and had a rover v8 iirc? Also a blue stacklight Merc also converted to Targa roof and slammed? They were built when there was a definite UK style. Nobody else was really doing anything similar. Theres pics of the targa roofed rapier somewhere in the old magazine covers thread which is on here .  |
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You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !
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You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !
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Am I right in thinking this one on the cover about 20(ish) years ago?  |
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Nic Manns red moggy convertable is still my fave Moggy thou ever , the proportions are just spot on . You've got your Moggies mixed! Nic Mann's is the V8 hillclimb Moggy:  Gary Ellis' is the red convertible:  I've got that car featured in a mag in the late 60s! I'm pretty sure Tony Zammit still has the Mk2. And that the Moggy pickup on wires isn't the Sam Anker car...I seem to remember having a conversation with someone who was involved (owned? built? Knew the owner?) with the blue and white one though. |
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Seth
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MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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....having a conversation with someone... (Knew the owner?) . That would be me then  Oh, and you've probably had a conversation with the person who owned it then too. |
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Last Edit: Jul 19, 2013 7:34:25 GMT by Seth
Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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stealthstylz
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Am I right in thinking this one on the cover about 20(ish) years ago? Yeah Bob's 205 was on the cover I think, iirc when it ran in the Rover V8 challenge. It's a local car to me, now going faster than ever. |
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stealthstylz
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....having a conversation with someone... (Knew the owner?) . That would be me then Oh, and you've probably had a conversation with the person who owned it then too. Ah awesome, 2 slightly mental Moggy pickups is always good. |
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 James White's Merc. Definitely dead.  The Merc again, before it was painted. This page also includes my own bit of SM fame. That was my SAAB 95 in the middle. |
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VIP
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Remember those cars you used to see in Street Machine, the ones that were kind of a precursor to the whole Retro thing, the ones that fell outside the standard Rod and Custom circles? Cars like this :  Jon's old Volvo now looks like this...   ...and is owned by a fella called 'Dancey' from Worcester. How about Neil Butler's old lo-lo SJ?   or Granzilla?  |
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VIP
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Terry Ross' Mk1 Cortina?  and where's Rodbuster?  |
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VIP
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 Nobody had built anything like it before or since. No idea what happened to Roger's 96, but he is currently building a roof-chopped 95 with a supercharged V8 in.  |
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v8ian
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Terry Ross's Cortinas are both still about, The red one has been Rebuilt up a Retro Ford, If I remember correctly,?? I cant Remember If Terry still has the white one, But I do know its still about, He is more into BMWs these days
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style.
Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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Jul 19, 2013 11:03:33 GMT
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Nic Manns red moggy convertable is still my fave Moggy thou ever , the proportions are just spot on . You've got your Moggies mixed! Nic Mann's is the V8 hillclimb Moggy: Gary Ellis' is the red convertible: I've got that car featured in a mag in the late 60s! I'm pretty sure Tony Zammit still has the Mk2. And that the Moggy pickup on wires isn't the Sam Anker car...I seem to remember having a conversation with someone who was involved (owned? built? Knew the owner?) with the blue and white one though. Yep , i dropped a boo boo there sorry ! I'm okay with cars but hopeless with names  |
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You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !
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IDY
Part of things
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Jul 19, 2013 11:03:52 GMT
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and this :  That pic rang a bell and a bit of googling turned up this thread |
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I will get round to finishing it at some point
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