qwerty
Club Retro Rides Member
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Building a Budget Rod?qwerty
@qwerty
Club Retro Rides Member 52
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I'm a bit scared of joining the NRSA forum as I always feel its kinda closed etc, i'm gunna do lots of research and if needs must i'll join up. Last thing I heard though they weren't accepting registrations on the forum.
Popuptoaster: Thats a cool idea!! Never even thought of that!
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that was a fault with the software preventing new sign ups
The thing with the NSRA forum is that it is the forum of a subscription paid club. Non-club-members are seen by some as interlopers or 2nd class citizens. But most are cool with non-members. After all some non-members become members, right? Also some non-members are major tech contributors or what have you.
The other thing is most members on there are older guys. I feel like a youngun at 37. They have been doing this for 20 30 years or more some of them and have set ideas about what they do and what they like. Many of them know each other. You are defo cutting into someone elses "club" in more than one way.
Some of them are right butty holes too. Just because they are. Not that many of them. But a few quite vocal ones.
I generally stick to tech and for sale & wanted or look for threads with event photos in and keep my nose out of arguements which brew up on there.
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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you could maybe buy a kit car ( I paid less than 500 quid for my V8 jeep) take the body off it and fit a hotrod body instead If you build a rod using a NEW repop body on an existing chassis and retain the stock running gear you have enough points to retain the original number and miss out SVA. Any car with a separate chassis is a viable donor really, so long as the chassis is "unmodified" you are good to go. Thats why I'm after a cheap scrap Scimitar.... Other viables are FX4 taxi, Spitfire, Herald, etc. as well as a number of big old yank tanks. The CROWN Victoria is STILL built on a separate chassis... Some mass production cars have unsuitable chassis, have a look and see what would work out. You can change the engine too so long as the axles, steering and brakes and such remain stock. |
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Last Edit: Jun 6, 2007 14:22:19 GMT by akku
1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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explains a lot that does, but the attitude also puts me off joining.  |
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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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