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What a fantastic show, very busy ALL weekend, good night in the club house (very loud) lots of support for all clubs as far as I could see. Pictures in the link of MEV areas.
http://mevowners.proboards.com/thread/6454/stonele...
Charger conversion is featured in Kit Car magazine's April, May issues and the final part is in June's issue and on it's front cover.
Next stop for the MEV roadshow is June;
http://www.cpop.co.uk/
Then July 18th at Curborough.
Then Aug 22nd at Skegness.
Then Sept Sywell Pistons and Props.
Then Oct Stoneleigh restoration show.
Then Nov NEC classic.
Then Christmas!
http://mevowners.proboards.com/thread/6454/stonele...
Charger conversion is featured in Kit Car magazine's April, May issues and the final part is in June's issue and on it's front cover.
Next stop for the MEV roadshow is June;
http://www.cpop.co.uk/
Then July 18th at Curborough.
Then Aug 22nd at Skegness.
Then Sept Sywell Pistons and Props.
Then Oct Stoneleigh restoration show.
Then Nov NEC classic.
Then Christmas!
I have to say I was a bit intrigued with one or two of the manufacturers stands and the apparent direction the market is heading in due to a general feeling that IVA is becoming something to be avoided.
Stuart, I saw your charger project and am a bit confused by it! I get the principal idea by it and your last F27 project that by taking somethign that is out of production and using it as a base to develop something new is a way to shortcut the development of a completely new car, but I can't imagine there being a market for the car given the, shall we say, challenging styling? Is it still vw chassis based and therefore an idea around avoiding IVA by using an unmodified chassis? I am intrigued whether you went at it with the hope of developing a kit from it, or just a one off exercise to sell on? Please don't take my comments the wrong way, I am genuinely interested rather than criticising etc.
The second was tribute automotive who appear to be adopting a position in the market that was opened up by Banham previously? Body conversions on existing platforms avoiding the need for IVA? and appear to be very popular? They appear to be good value for money and the D type replica was pretty well finished but, and i think the owner would agree, it is not meant to be an accurate replica and needs a bit of misty eyed squinting to see the D type trying to get out. Looking at the other cars they had I can't help but wonder if compromising the styling of classic shapes to fit an existing platform, and the less than perfect quality (understandable when considering they are being developed to keep costs down) do the industry any favours in terms of public perception?
This all seems a bit critical, it isn't meant to be, it is just my observation that kits seemed to develop in quality at a pace when SVA was introduced, and I would argue that was a good thing, but it seems IVA, although not hugely different is leading to a resurgence in a number 'old school' kit cars trying to be built off existing platforms, as styling exercises?
Stuart, I saw your charger project and am a bit confused by it! I get the principal idea by it and your last F27 project that by taking somethign that is out of production and using it as a base to develop something new is a way to shortcut the development of a completely new car, but I can't imagine there being a market for the car given the, shall we say, challenging styling? Is it still vw chassis based and therefore an idea around avoiding IVA by using an unmodified chassis? I am intrigued whether you went at it with the hope of developing a kit from it, or just a one off exercise to sell on? Please don't take my comments the wrong way, I am genuinely interested rather than criticising etc.
The second was tribute automotive who appear to be adopting a position in the market that was opened up by Banham previously? Body conversions on existing platforms avoiding the need for IVA? and appear to be very popular? They appear to be good value for money and the D type replica was pretty well finished but, and i think the owner would agree, it is not meant to be an accurate replica and needs a bit of misty eyed squinting to see the D type trying to get out. Looking at the other cars they had I can't help but wonder if compromising the styling of classic shapes to fit an existing platform, and the less than perfect quality (understandable when considering they are being developed to keep costs down) do the industry any favours in terms of public perception?
This all seems a bit critical, it isn't meant to be, it is just my observation that kits seemed to develop in quality at a pace when SVA was introduced, and I would argue that was a good thing, but it seems IVA, although not hugely different is leading to a resurgence in a number 'old school' kit cars trying to be built off existing platforms, as styling exercises?
dom9 said:
Stuart - do you have any pics of your stand?
Always interested in what you guys have to display!
Thanx for asking. In the foreground you can see our jacked up Exocet XS. Next to it is our Charger revamp, then we had our new version of Replicar with opening doors and boot which was next to the new version of the Exocet.Always interested in what you guys have to display!
jamesG20V6 said:
I have to say I was a bit intrigued with one or two of the manufacturers stands and the apparent direction the market is heading in due to a general feeling that IVA is becoming something to be avoided.
Stuart, I saw your charger project and am a bit confused by it! I get the principal idea by it and your last F27 project that by taking somethign that is out of production and using it as a base to develop something new is a way to shortcut the development of a completely new car, but I can't imagine there being a market for the car given the, shall we say, challenging styling? Is it still vw chassis based and therefore an idea around avoiding IVA by using an unmodified chassis? I am intrigued whether you went at it with the hope of developing a kit from it, or just a one off exercise to sell on? Please don't take my comments the wrong way, I am genuinely interested rather than criticising etc.
The second was tribute automotive who appear to be adopting a position in the market that was opened up by Banham previously? Body conversions on existing platforms avoiding the need for IVA? and appear to be very popular? They appear to be good value for money and the D type replica was pretty well finished but, and i think the owner would agree, it is not meant to be an accurate replica and needs a bit of misty eyed squinting to see the D type trying to get out. Looking at the other cars they had I can't help but wonder if compromising the styling of classic shapes to fit an existing platform, and the less than perfect quality (understandable when considering they are being developed to keep costs down) do the industry any favours in terms of public perception?
This all seems a bit critical, it isn't meant to be, it is just my observation that kits seemed to develop in quality at a pace when SVA was introduced, and I would argue that was a good thing, but it seems IVA, although not hugely different is leading to a resurgence in a number 'old school' kit cars trying to be built off existing platforms, as styling exercises?
No need to avoid IVA, the fact is that full bodied kits such as the MEV Replicar are very easy to pass IVA, we have virtually no contactable edges and areas such as brake balance, self centering, emissions, decibels, speedo calibration etc are all MX5 and therefore pass. The old Charger is not going into production but I did enjoy playing with it's styling. The articles in KC mag are about encouraging would be car manufacturers to look at old school offerings and see if there are cars that can be revamped. April, May and June issues for you to read.Stuart, I saw your charger project and am a bit confused by it! I get the principal idea by it and your last F27 project that by taking somethign that is out of production and using it as a base to develop something new is a way to shortcut the development of a completely new car, but I can't imagine there being a market for the car given the, shall we say, challenging styling? Is it still vw chassis based and therefore an idea around avoiding IVA by using an unmodified chassis? I am intrigued whether you went at it with the hope of developing a kit from it, or just a one off exercise to sell on? Please don't take my comments the wrong way, I am genuinely interested rather than criticising etc.
The second was tribute automotive who appear to be adopting a position in the market that was opened up by Banham previously? Body conversions on existing platforms avoiding the need for IVA? and appear to be very popular? They appear to be good value for money and the D type replica was pretty well finished but, and i think the owner would agree, it is not meant to be an accurate replica and needs a bit of misty eyed squinting to see the D type trying to get out. Looking at the other cars they had I can't help but wonder if compromising the styling of classic shapes to fit an existing platform, and the less than perfect quality (understandable when considering they are being developed to keep costs down) do the industry any favours in terms of public perception?
This all seems a bit critical, it isn't meant to be, it is just my observation that kits seemed to develop in quality at a pace when SVA was introduced, and I would argue that was a good thing, but it seems IVA, although not hugely different is leading to a resurgence in a number 'old school' kit cars trying to be built off existing platforms, as styling exercises?
My favorite car of the show was on the Tribute stand, it was based on a BMW, blue with Mazzer badges on, awesome. I didn't get a picture though.
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