Cafe Racers and a 'British' style for cars...

www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/lancia-aurelia-outlaw-1957

Having just had a perusal and finding this thread, i can understand the 'difference' needed to keep the alternative car scene alive, i like the idea of not so popular cars being modified, or even the expensive type such as the E type being modified and made to look ratty etc etc.... a lot of this has to do with moving with the times and adapting your own vision and making it a reality. The triumph Herald looks very cool lowered, and is def' a different model to bring into line with the mk1/2 escorts and the moggy minors etc etc... and maybe more people will turn to these, the chevette and the Austin mob so on and so forth, it's good to have a breath of fresh air, but in the end, there is only so much you can do, but looking back, there are a lot of cars that have had a few mods, some minor, some major, but still quite rare, take my friend with a beaten up mk2 Consul, looks a real Frankenstein project, standard engine, but all the welding is exposed, the panels are not all the same colour, and i am trying to convince him to put it on bags! how cool would that look? i know it may have been done before, but there are not a lot of them like this (or would be...) and it brings back a little bit of 'freshness' encouraging people to look for something similar or to make a track day out of something different, maybe an old Renault or take a Talbot horizon, do a rwd conversion then slam it... or leave it fwd but make a few changes, anything would be better than trying to do it to a modern car,
but as to the cafe racer theme, there are still a lot of cars out there that would bring back a fresh change out of something old/dated, for example, if you had 3 cars, and done exactly the same to all of them, you would def' help encourage someone or more than one or two to do or try the same, i know £ comes into it, but we all started somewhere.
take a 2002, a renault 4 and a triumph Acclaim! all bare metal, different coloured panels, lowered, standard or mild tuned engines and all with the same style wheels (and no hubcaps!) how many people would rate them as very nice or comment... i am going straight onto the net and looking for one of those...?

so i think it's good to try to adapt something 'different' where possible, but it can be limiting, however, you need to put your personal touch to it as well, i am hoping to get some use out of my old banger before the 'season' is out, and even better to take in some of the mods and ideas of everyone else and theirs cars.

Bump for a stalled thread thread from the dead, full with sooo much goodness.

Looking forward to the first Cafe Racer electric car... if only the rest of the world (not just China) was getting the rocketman, I could see this being the basis of a cool retro cafe racer.

Where’s little pixel - I’m sure he could make something cool out of it!

Now that’s cool ^^^

I know what you mean. Too much like a kitchen appliance...

That's lovely, has real rally pedigree as well. Good to see it not in red with a black bonnet.

I think it's amazing and definitely a decent café racer example. (I think 'Outlaw' style and 'Cafe Racer' have a lot in common tbh).

I think I posted this video on the recent roof-chop thread — but it bears seeing this thing in motion on here too:
Drink it in:


Emory Motorsports 356 Outlaw is gorgeous too: