Redesinging my sports car, looking for bumper design ideas

[Arashi]

Hello Piston Head fellows, seeing how there are many automobile enthusiast here, I would like some suggestions as to which car bumper or design features I should put on my car.


Just a few days ago by chance I noticed an Aston Martin like grill in my current paper mache build and Ive photoshop-ed the new One-77 bumper on it to see the possible outcome.
My previous design idea (copied from the Ferrari Dino concept) is also included in the following link. Should I build the Aston grill?



All comments welcome, thanks.
Build gallery - http://picasaweb.google.com/VigorousZX/MyCar#


The base of my car is the Nissan 300zx (90-96+)
Details of my work can be found in my Nissan forum thread
http://forums.nicoclub.com/vigor-s-kit-thread-t504...

Edited by Arashi on Sunday 15th August 07:40

Edited by Arashi on Sunday 15th August 07:47

[Liquid Knight]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT6hw0LlZrE

[Arashi]

He looks like an Indian Jeff Goldbloom... if I had elephants in my city I might of considered reshaping the aluminum body that way.

[Rodimus]

Why would you make a car look like something it isn't? Get a decent looking bodykit for it. If you convert it to look like a Ferrari/Porsche/Aston Martin, you will get loads of people taking pics of it only to post it on other forums and making fun of it.

[Liquid Knight]

You can buy a kit that converts a Jag XK8 to look a bit like an Aston Martin. Only available in the US due to the copywrite issues.

http://www.allkitcars.com/aston-martin-replica-ful...

Maybe you could adapt this to fit your car.

[Arashi]

Good idea except there arent any One-77 replica grills which is the only design I will be satisfied with if I was going to do the Aston bumper. I will possibly make one out of a shopping cart or have a blacksmith weld one.

Rodimus said:

Why would you make a car look like something it isn't? Get a decent looking bodykit for it. If you convert it to look like a Ferrari/Porsche/Aston Martin, you will get loads of people taking pics of it only to post it on other forums and making fun of it.

I want to make my own exotic looking car. I never planned for it to imitate anything else but the Aston grill looks really nice. Also I would'nt care what other people think since 90% of drivers own generic looking cars, and the ones with real exotics have nothing to do with the art shaped in their cars.

Edited by Arashi on Sunday 15th August 08:38

Edited by Arashi on Sunday 15th August 08:40