Anyone miss the mad mods from the 1990s?

[SonicHedgeHog]

Stumbled upon an article from Max Power about a Dimma Clio 16V from the early 90s. Took me right back. I really, really, really wanted one of those but couldn't afford the 5 grand for a fully fitted and repainted kit. I made do with a stereo from Halfords in the end. But it got me thinking. Cars these days are quite sterile. Yes, you can have a dealer fit computer with more computing power than, well, something with lots of computing power, but it just isn't as much fun as a hot hatch with a separate tape, MD, CD, DSP/equaliser and CD multichanger piled on top of one another in the centre console. The same goes for the exterior. Where are all the wings and spoilers and enormous wheel arches? Anyone else miss this golden era?

[thetapeworm]

No.

[Garlick]

Big Al's still here

[fatboy69]

Same here. No.

[Skylinecrazy]

There's still a huge amount of stupidly over modified Corsas and clios around here.

[williamp]

It wasnt a golden era, so no. Like the music of the time: the dance was more widespread then the indy, but the indy has lasted longer in peoples memory then the dance.

[morgrp]

Nope

[Fleckers]

i had a car in FastCar

before Maxpower existed and it was not kitted just very fast

[Dave Hedgehog]

they knew nothing in the 90s, stretched tyres are where its at

[Pixelpeep]

i've never been a fan of crazy body kits and i don't actually think it has disappeared, i just think you don't keep the same circles as before and everyone you hang around with has hopefully grown out of that 'stage'

Used to love seeing the cossie powered 205 GTi's etc but not the Ali-G R5's

[SonicHedgeHog]

Philistines, the lot of you!

[GTO Scott]

There's a Dimma-kitted Clio in Lelant - I drive past it most days.

I want it

[4key]

I would love one that had as much go as it did show, unfortunately they are few and far between. I drooled over this one on ebay for hours a couple of months ago.

Edited by 4key on Thursday 4th October 22:00

[Pixelpeep]

4key said:

I would love one that had as much go as it did show, unfortunately they are few and far between. I drooled over the red one on ebay for hours a couple of months ago.

THAT is stunning

[SonicHedgeHog]

4key said:

I would love one that had as much go as it did show, unfortunately they are few and far between. I drooled over the red one on ebay for hours a couple of months ago.

Ah, look at that beauty. How often do you see split rims these days? Shoehorn in a 306GTI lump and some webber carbs and you're close to perfection. Or perhaps a Turbo Technics' turbo conversion with tons of turbo lag? Back to the classifieds I go...

[4key]

heres that one http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.p...


Realised that the red thing I was thinking about was a 6r4

[Mastodon2]

SonicHedgeHog said:

Anyone else miss this golden era?

No, it was not so much a golden era as a brown one. Thank god it's mostly gone, now you just see those cretinous "DUB Boize" or whatever they are calling themselves these days, congregating in Mcdonalds car parks.

[sjabrown]

4key said:

I would love one that had as much go as it did show, unfortunately they are few and far between. I drooled over this one on ebay for hours a couple of months ago.

Edited by 4key on Thursday 4th October 22:00

There is a pukka 205 Dimma hidden away not too far from me. But I'd rather have the 205 T16 that it loosely derived its style from

[AdeTuono]

Golden age of mods was the 70's, as this baby proves.

[v8will]

Dave Hedgehog said:

they knew nothing in the 90s, stretched tyres are where its at

The Germans and Spanish were at this a long time before it was popular in the UK.

Some of the cars were good, some woeful. On the styling front I always liked the Parotech Honda Accord and some of the Veilside Supras looked pretty mean.