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In a few years Max P will be retro, as retro becomes Max P again, it goes round in circles.
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Quite like Cobra replicas - they are definalty retro. Except if they have a 2.0 engine. No car can ever claim to be Cobra anything without the V8.
I think the Caterham's and the 7's are retro as well - they are a classic style but have always employed up to date technology (maybe I'm showing Caterham ignorance here) so the blend of Classic but modified (well kind of..) makes them non-classics and a Max head wouldn't know what it was.
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Andrew
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who needs track days when u live in wales
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i see retro as anything with out a cat, and don't get the started on chavpower mag  |
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by the way.. my polo is MK2, not MK1,  i respect my car as a car and a unique one at that, people who have seen my car for real will respect how clean and "subtle" it is, you lot may not think that but its the way i c my car...... MAX = 20" wheels, 4 x 12" subs, MOTORSPORT sunstrip, 6.5" Exhaust on a 1.2. My car is NOT max! it mite not be Retro enough for you, but hay!? Actually I quite like your Polo, /i think there are a few of us who do on here, I've seen mk2 Polos gone down the chav route, and yours looks a fair bit better than that!  |
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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No - because Max Power is about making your car something it's not by sticking on new wheels and Evo' bumpers. When the owners of those cars lose interest the cars will be too unique to become classics and won't become retro because they aren't true to type.
Max theory says 4" backbox. Retro says 4" downpipe. (although 4" is a bit large for most applications - just sounded good like that)
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Quite like Cobra replicas - they are definalty retro. Except if they have a 2.0 engine. No car can ever claim to be Cobra anything without the V8. I think the Caterham's and the 7's are retro as well - they are a classic style but have always employed up to date technology (maybe I'm showing Caterham ignorance here) so the blend of Classic but modified (well kind of..) makes them non-classics and a Max head wouldn't know what it was. I think you are showing you ignorance. Caterhams still have Triumph herald front uprights/brakes! Locost builders are moving forward a little with the (very heavy) sierra uprights, from the cortina 3/4/5 uprights (which I'm using). The engines may be modern but the rest of the running gear isn't. Adam |
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Going a bit off subject - but I think you might be concentrating on 1 or 2 particular bits. The question there would be whether or not that moulding is fit for the job or not. My guess would be that the car is light enough to not require massively efficient brakes??
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No car can ever claim to be Cobra anything without the V8. No car can ever claim to be a Cobra without having a proper AC badge on it. Everything else is just a cheap knock off. On the subject or Retro vs. "Max". I hate pigeon holes, the moment someone says this doesn't fit or that doesn't fit then they are making a rod for their own back.. Pretty soon you end up with a scene like the VW scene where everything you build has to "fit" or it is shunned. Fact is most of this board is built up of misfits who don't fit into any other scenes. Its why I started it and why I love it. Total diversity, total enthusiasm. The car that started this debate is Kris' and I wouldn't class that as Maxed up at all, which means it doesn't fit into that scene, therefore what we're about (open mindedness) is perfect. Thank goodness its not a Mk1 Escort on Minilites . Personally I'd like it a bit lower and on deep dish wheels, maybe thats what he'll take away from this forum  . Perhaps you'll take away the fact that 3 spoke wheels are evil  |
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Max eye spots K&N sticker on the front bumper...
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yeah if you only have 3-spoke wheels then one of the corners of the car has to scrape along the ground on it's lower ball-joint. ;D
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Last Edit: Jan 7, 2005 17:29:19 GMT by ejenner
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My favourites on a Polo are either deep dish splits or turbos.
Adam
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yeah if you only have 3-spoke wheels then one of the corners of the car has to scrape along the ground on it's lower ball-joint. ;D ,.. I'd agree with your comment about Retro being the gap between max and classic (wer're going to get people from either end), but there are plenty of "retro" cars pretending to be something they arn't, all dressed up like works rally or race cars but with fairly stock engines |
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I think if we're not careful threads like this could be seen as some sort of "fashion council" deciding what we will and won't allow - and that can only do harm for the scene. I appreciate the thread was never started as such, but sometimes I feel comments could be construed as excluding owners of certain cars etc - quite unintentional I'm sure. Someone in their 40s may not see a Ford Sierra as anything other than a banger, but perhaps younger people who haven't seen them around as much will probably view them as being retro - as has been said before, retro is a matter of opinion. I agree that poor taste and cheap masty "mods" are godawful, but there are a lot of people doing genuinely fantastic mods to new cars and it's unfortunate they all get tarred with the same brush. I just feel that as a relatively new scene, the last thing we need is people thinking they aren't allowed in the clique because they don't have the right car. I like the modified classic scenes openness and enthusiasm, and without that I think it wouldn't be nearly as much fun  |
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I just feel that as a relatively new scene, the last thing we need is people thinking they aren't allowed in the clique because they don't have the right car. I like the modified classic scenes openness and enthusiasm, and without that I think it wouldn't be nearly as much fun Yes, what he said |
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3 spoke wheels are evil Even as fitted to the first Dodge Vipers? |
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Even as fitted to the first Dodge Vipers? Yes |
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  I like to think that there's always an exception to the rule ;D
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Last Edit: Jan 7, 2005 17:54:49 GMT by Paul H
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I agree with Hotwire and everyone else who'se said this so far, this forum's great because of the variety on here, retro is, as I've said and a lot of others have said before, a state of mind, personally I'm quite keen on a lot of members' cars on this forum, maybe I wouldn't want to own all of them, and wouldn't expect you lot to like the sort of cars I'm into if you didn't happen to like that sort of car, but I think it's good to appreciate the car for the effort and the thinking behind it, and the hard work that a lot of us are putting into our cars, I don't think it helps when people start laying down the law and saying what sort of car is deemed acceptable and what ones are better than others, if we do that we'll all end up like the concours mob or Practical Classics and it's all buffer target audience! |
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. Perhaps you'll take away the fact that 3 spoke wheels are evil 
