what would make a good hotrod?

Peugeot 203?

Most early British tin makes good hotrods, just in miniature compared to the American bodied ones.

let me find you hunch back racings PV-544






even if you don't know swedish I'm shure you can work that out

www.hunchbackracing.se

Also I think the mistake a lot of rodders make with British tin is to use wheels that are too big. There's a black model Y doing the rounds at the moment and its running on 14" wheels instead of the usual 15's and I think it makes the whole car look better, sleeker, lower. 15's 16's and 17's can be pulled off on a bigger car but it looks like it's on stilts sometimes in a smaller body.

FX4:

They even come with Hot Rod steel rims as standard!

Daimler Conquest:

...and I know where there is one that needs doing!

I know it's not exactly new...but this just goes to show what a little 'outside the box' thinking can produce.

That could be almost any seperate fendered car...Minor? Topolino? PV544?

the Topolino was a popular basis for drag cars and the like back in the day.

Good to see the PV's drag racing. Wanted to avoid the gasser style though, seems everybody does that, and it looks a kind of euro copy of the Willys racing coupes.
Don't want small-small (A35 etc/topolino/and that) something arround the last escort, or maybe upto Sierra/Mondeo size.
RileyRMs are nice as they are, and that Daimler looks a little big, but I do like the lake style beetle.
Used to have this thing about MK3 Zephyr/Zodiacs when I saw one as a kid in the 70's (and now life on mars is on). But that, or a cresta, or a cambridge/oxford, or a consul would end up looking more custom or again gasser style, and very square sided.
I want curves and bulges which is why I thought PV544. I figured with a little creativety and a knackered (smacked or rusted) 200 series or 700 series turbo, you could have an older car, with modern running gear almost all volvo and looking low and moody to cruise, rather than stacked up and looking to race. Of course a fully mapable engine managment with decent WI and NOS control would make sure it could still hustle.
What is interchangability like between really old and fairly new RWD volovs? Or would I be better using a 123 (etc) Amazon as the basis?

Minor? Who's that then?

The P4 was a Burnham jobbie...I saw it in progress at his olf Northfleet 'shop...very impressive. The Pilot was there at the same time. Paul and his team certainly can turn them out. (his son still drives a lowered Nova though!)

Austin A30/35?