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DoubleSix
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45 months
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Agent Orange said: So my ideal of something looking good is s  te. Your ideal it right eh? I'd say, based on the evidence within this thread, that is just about spot on.
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NinjaPower
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49 months
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braddo
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57 months
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Agent Orange said: It's the differences that make the world interesting. OwenK said: If it's a modified car, it's best when the owner has clearly had a vision in mind and gone with it (or maybe they didn't, but it ended up being a cohesive whole at the end by sheer chance!), and executed it to a decent level. I'm not advocating someone posting that picture of the Metro 4-door with the unpainted 6R4 bodykit and standard wheels - but that 356 above is, in my opinion, a great car. It's not a pristine 356, no - but nor is it trying to be. It's someone's pride and joy, but it's also an expression of themselves, and that I think is the best bit.   This is a thread where people give their opinions of 'decently modified' cars. Whether a car is someone's pride and joy or an expression of themselves means absolutely nothing in relation to this thread, and frankly it's annoying that people would try to use this as some sort of comeback to others' negative comments. In the context of this thread I couldn't give a s t if a ratted out, heavily 'stanced' MX5 is someone's pride and joy - it would not deserve a place on this thread.
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Agent Orange
1,148 posts
115 months
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braddo said: This is a thread where people give their opinions of 'decently modified' cars. Whether a car is someone's pride and joy or an expression of themselves means absolutely nothing in relation to this thread, and frankly it's annoying that people would try to use this as some sort of comeback to others' negative comments. In the context of this thread I couldn't give a s t if a ratted out, heavily 'stanced' MX5 is someone's pride and joy - it would not deserve a place on this thread. Careful getting off that horse of yours. It sounds a long way down from where you’re sat.
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NinjaPower
2,324 posts
49 months
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braddo said: This is a thread where people give their opinions of 'decently modified' cars. Whether a car is someone's pride and joy or an expression of themselves means absolutely nothing in relation to this thread, and frankly it's annoying that people would try to use this as some sort of comeback to others' negative comments. In the context of this thread I couldn't give a s t if a ratted out, heavily 'stanced' MX5 is someone's pride and joy - it would not deserve a place on this thread. If it is modified and some people like it, why wouldn't it belong in this thread? You sound like you need to lighten up a little. I'm a Petrolhead, therefore I like all cars. They interest me. I like the differences between rat-look and concours, I enjoy reading about 'stanced cars' and the work that went into them looking that way. The world would be a very, very boring place if modified or custom simply meant 'improving the performance and handling' and did not involve people with bizarre ideas doing crazy things for no reason other than 'they want to'.
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OwenK
1,622 posts
64 months
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Perhaps this thread needs subdividing into two new threads, "Decently modified cars for people who appreciate them only as tools" and "Decently modified cars for people who take an interest in them on other levels as well as as tools"?
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MADRod
412 posts
103 months
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doogz
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56 months
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MADRod said: To be called decently modified a car must fulfill its design brief surely. A Formula 1 car is the shape it is because over time its found to be the best way of winning. Same for the drag boys what it looks like is secondary to its function . The concours boys will put it back to standard & make it as good or even better than new. My brief was to modify my car to break a Topspeed record for its marque. The purists will think its terrible even a travesty to muck about with Fords original design but it was a slow old truck in standard form. Some think that the ‘rat look’ is the bees knees & spend money to make their car look crappier than all the others. To me a decently modified car must handle & perform better than the original & that means all these mega slammed cars are not decently modified because it will destroy the cars handling its also dangerous. Modified cars are like your choice of women a very personal thing. Are you the guy that let his mate, in a cardigan, wearing a standard inertia reel seatbelt, take a Sierra to over 200mph?
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Harry Flashman
9,363 posts
111 months
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DSS1 said: What the hell is that monstrosity doing on this thread? Irony, I hope?
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DoubleSix
2,521 posts
45 months
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braddo
2,992 posts
57 months
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MADRod said:
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Gaz.
47,177 posts
120 months
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dave stew said: It looks like its been set alight in the forest. The sudpension's collapsed and the seat upholstery has gone, along with the paint. Dreadful. Check out the stance man, haters gonna hate my air-ride outlaw! Despite looking like it's been torched by a joyrider it took me a lot of skill, time and talent but you wouldn't understand with your shiny paints, complete interiors, functioning suspension and correctly fitted tyres you boring and conforming old fart: 
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Harry Flashman
9,363 posts
111 months
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 I think that the rat look thing sometimes looks brilliant (especially if underneath, the engineering is excellent - who wouldn't like that sort of sleepr?). Gaz's post is still funny, though.
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JFReturns
2,503 posts
40 months
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NO1SY said: Has this been mentioned before? Its not mine but was posted on a thread on an audi forum a while back, think the owner is a PHer?  Yes, a while ago - it was up for sale and now sold iirc. Nice looking TT.
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Lordbenny
5,072 posts
88 months
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A little too low for my liking but still.....  
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Simonium
214 posts
21 months
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OwenK said: If you want concours-pretty cars, you're better off elsewhere. If you want to appreciate cars with some character, with soul, then pull up a chair. Please explain what "soul" means, when used in the context of a car? Personally I think the Porsche looks abhorrent but I approve of the work and rationale behind it.
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Lordbenny
5,072 posts
88 months
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Here's another! 
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e21Mark
1,751 posts
42 months
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Quite like the Alfa apart from front spoiler which, ironically, spoils it.
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fieldmau5
86 posts
37 months
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DB89
415 posts
48 months
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doogz said: MADRod said: To be called decently modified a car must fulfill its design brief surely. A Formula 1 car is the shape it is because over time its found to be the best way of winning. Same for the drag boys what it looks like is secondary to its function . The concours boys will put it back to standard & make it as good or even better than new. My brief was to modify my car to break a Topspeed record for its marque. The purists will think its terrible even a travesty to muck about with Fords original design but it was a slow old truck in standard form. Some think that the ‘rat look’ is the bees knees & spend money to make their car look crappier than all the others. To me a decently modified car must handle & perform better than the original & that means all these mega slammed cars are not decently modified because it will destroy the cars handling its also dangerous. Modified cars are like your choice of women a very personal thing. Are you the guy that let his mate, in a cardigan, wearing a standard inertia reel seatbelt, take a Sierra to over 200mph? Indeed he his. But then Mark knows the car inside out since he built it. Highly recommended if your after a fast Ford or Evo.
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