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Apr 24, 2007 17:39:15 GMT
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Trailer Queens *    Great aren't they?! * Some might be trailer queens, some might be regularly driven...so what. Is there really no place for cars built to win awards, is there really no place for immaculately detailed cars, is there no place for cars that are so good that driving them would detract from the perfection their owners/builders strived for? Different strokes and all that. Why do we feel the need to slate this sort of car? I couldn't own one, I'd just break it or spoil it. Trailer Queens are cool! There you go, I've said it. ;D |
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MrT
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Apr 24, 2007 17:55:04 GMT
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Is there really no place for cars built to win awards, is there really no place for immaculately detailed cars, is there no place for cars that are so good that driving them would detract from the perfection their owners/builders strived for? Personally, I can't see the point of building something you're afraid to use. "Drive it like you stole it" - that's my motto... |
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Apr 24, 2007 18:07:44 GMT
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I don't really consider a car that isnt driven a car, more of an ornament. Not that its a bad thing or anything!
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tigran
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Apr 24, 2007 18:08:09 GMT
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They do look stunning though.
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Apr 24, 2007 18:20:53 GMT
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Art, that is what they are to me, if driven, double win.
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Apr 24, 2007 18:25:27 GMT
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I'd rather own something that I can drive, but (especially since I'm a designer) I can still appreciate the cars posted as they go beyond being just a car, to becoming a piece of automotive art / sculpture  |
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slater
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Apr 24, 2007 19:07:55 GMT
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I don't have any problem with people doing it but i have alot more respect for people who attualy use the cars they build. Takes alot more to have a cool car and use it than it does to make/keep one immaculate when you don't.
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Apr 24, 2007 19:10:26 GMT
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now they are nice they have all the correct proprtions and can be driven if you so want to infact most of them will get driven once they have done their curcuit of the shows for a couple of years  |
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Apr 24, 2007 19:46:58 GMT
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I don't have a problem with trailer queens either. Its not like every car I see at a show I get to see in action or drive myself.... fact is they still look cool parked up and thats enough for me to take a pic of it and remark on how oooofworthy it is. Rezult! But like Slater said, I have a little more respect for show cars theat get driven too |
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As nightmares said these cars tend to be trailer queens only for a certain amount of time,.. People that dismiss them because they arn't driven tend to be the people that have chosen not to get themselves informed about this type of car.
Cars of this quality can be built by one person in their garage.
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Do they run? Reason I ask is at a motorbike show I attended in 2004 a couple of ‘show winners’ owners happily admitted that the engines had no innards at all! Thus they had to be wheeled in and out of the covered vehicle (a least the wheels did actually rotate). I DO admire the work and realise they are someones pride and joy, but… …Personally I’ve more respect for any vehicle of interest that is used as normal transport all year round. Trouble is these days the impression I am getting is the ‘show’ scene seems to consist mainly of vehicles that are brought out for ‘show use only’. And God forbid if you do turn up with a ‘daily driver’ classic at the show for the other ‘concourse wannabee’ entrants will turn their noses up and pick fault at its rust and scraps etc. Or am I just missing the point these days…  |
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…Personally I’ve more respect for any vehicle of interest that is used as normal transport all year round. Trouble is these days the impression I am getting is the ‘show’ scene seems to consist mainly of vehicles that are brought out for ‘show use only’.  ^^^^ 300 miles last year driving to and from shows... thats it... thats all its used for... does it make me a bad person? |
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MWF
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I have total respect for them, fair play to the owners for doing what they want. Fugg anyone who has a problem with it.
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YES, YES, YES IT DOES! ;D A car like that (and what a good car, I remember them old Datsuns ) needs to be used more!
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These cars have the most money spent on design, components, paint and are great reference points for ideas and styling cues. Even car designers for the major manufacturers can be found lurking around places like the Oakland Roadster Show, picking up ideas. I love these expressions of the high end of automotive art and wish I had enough money to commission my own car.  |
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I find I have a problem with "cheque-book builders" but I can't for the life in me think what the real problem I have with them is appart from a naggng jealousy that they have great toys and I can't afford to play that game.
A show car that is and looks like a show car then I have no problem with it.
What I have a problem with is cars in the "built to be driven" genres like Pro-Touring, pro street and rat rods which are so chock full of attitude but are actually undrivable trailer queens. Its kinda double standards really.
I don't know many classic shows which will turn you away for having a daily driver. I know a lot will turn you away for having a car which is too new or is modified though but thats a whole nother story.
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Apr 25, 2007 10:07:48 GMT
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i love em and am massively influenced by them
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Apr 25, 2007 10:25:03 GMT
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Always good to see, but as I enjoy driving, i don't thnk i'd do one, for this reason i don't think i'd put obsessive amouts of time/money/blOod/sweat/love into a car incase i stack it!  a moderate amount will be applied though... |
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 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
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Apr 25, 2007 10:32:04 GMT
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NO, not turn you away but make you feel uncomfortable with snide coments so that you don't come again ... ...so fair enough I suppose the simple answer is I won't!  |
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a moderate amount will be applied though...
