Originally Posted by
Rsmat
Building a straight line car and drag strip cars bore me to death ..no talent needed ..track or lanes ..that is what interests ME.
And the 2 examples are just a few that do that and actually spanner there own car also ..that's talent under your own steam .
but that goes back to my original question mat, if you are a tuner who then builds their own car, it is "built" because you created it or "bought" because you used your contacts in the trade and your skills to fabricate the best car you could to show off your "mad skillz"?
Originally Posted by
fuzzy
theres only so much I can do myself since im not a spanner monkey. engine internals and fitting is best left to someone that knows what theyre doing. im quite happy to tackle anything else myself though.
who cares if some call it bought? since when did it only count if you done every single nut and bolt yourself?
i replaced every single nut bolt wire and panel (other than the painting) that there was on my sierra estate, i'm still pissed off because people have said that, pre internet, it couldn't have been as fast as it was because there were other cars out there with stickers on that were supposedly quicker
Originally Posted by
cossynut2
There has been a lot of opinions on this but I still ask the Question , if you havent got access to a decent sized , waterproof , secure ,well lit garage how are you going to build a car yourself at home ? How many of the "built" cars mentioned could have been done without a garage? Some people have no choice and have to get the work done by someone else.
most of my work done on my car was done while it was my daily driver, and it was done on my drive because there was a pool table in my garage
time, ability, skill, all that does't mean squat if you can't actually be bothered to do stuff yourself
Originally Posted by
Psycho Warren
A fast car is a fast car whoever built it. I can see why people take pride in doing it themselves but thats a personal thing really. A chequebook car is no worse a car than someone who did it all DIY.
but nowadays it's not about being fast, it's about being "euro" and "stanced" and "rat look" and "my car looks like a sack of shit and i can't get over speed humps" and shit like that
the performance is now secondary to the look, yet you can buy stuff nowadays that gives you 9/10ths the performance of an older FAST car for 9/10ths of the cost