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ZFarm Duncan Pearcy is your man.
I don't think they are.....
ZFarm Duncan Pearcy is your man.
Why not?I don't think they are.....
Why so?ZFarm Duncan Pearcy is your man.
I would probably be right in assuming that those in the UK having gone though this treatment are double or nearly triple the price, or not for sale though?A lot of talk pointing to UK RHD S30's being rusty, true, some are, but there is a large percentage that have gone through that phase and been retstored (or even some with no welding/panel/bodywork at all)....LHD do rust as well. Just because its LHD doesn't mean the body isn't hiding a load of other horrors.
Plenty of great original UK market cars in the UK, and some are on this forum...
Balance.
R&U
No, its more the good solid UK cars are worth the money and are not 2 or 3 times the price, its the rusty, badly "restored", quick profiteers who want more than their car is worth. I could go on with examples, but rightly the moderators would step in......I would probably be right in assuming that those in the UK having gone though this treatment are double or nearly triple the price, or not for sale though?
I guess people’s views were that at the same price point, there is a better chance of getting a lower/“rust-free” LHD than there is a RHD.
Now that's a restomod!Got and built one, and it’s for sale
Now that's a restomod!
Didn’t this sell on eBay? Saw it for £35k and then it ended?Got and built one, and it’s for sale
Yeah, I agree. I shouldn’t have used the term. That’s my fault.I'd say it is something other than a 'Restomod', which is kind of what I was trying to allude to in earlier posts.
That particular car looks - to me - more like some kind of Hybrid Z. Its powertrain dominates its identity. It will also dominate the way it drives and - moreover - its wider personality...
Clearly terms such as 'Restomod' are elastic and require further refinement of definition on a personally case-by-case basis.
I'd say it is something other than a 'Restomod', which is kind of what I was trying to allude to in earlier posts.
That particular car looks - to me - more like some kind of Hybrid Z. Its powertrain dominates its identity. It will also dominate the way it drives and - moreover - its wider personality...
Clearly terms such as 'Restomod' are elastic and require further refinement of definition on a personally case-by-case basis.
What would you say in your opinion are the characteristics of a restomod? I.e. what would Matt's car have to have to make it a restomod rather than a hybrid?
I guess the term hybrid isn't really widely used in the wider car community, so that might be why restomod is used so broadly instead.
Restomod to me is as it says really, restored and modified. So a fairly standard looking car, but with some modification like, wheels, tyres, lowered suspension, spoiler, bonnet inspection flap vents, ITB's, fuel injection, engine tweaking but keeping it L6 etc. Stuff that adds some modernity to the car without fundamentally changing how it looks.
I had always thought the ‘mod’ in restomod was short for modernise.
Haha! Sorry about the need for hypno!It was good to meet and speak to you on our various car adventures.......even though me reliving the resto process brought back buried trauma that will require further hypnotherapy.