Repowered Classics

[CUSTAXIE50]

To answer Dave's point on The Escort Twin Cam/Mini Cooper etc there is no problem with these being built from a lesser body provided the car is true to the period. The point I was trying to make is that there is/was only one Custaxie/Carney Escort/Spears Escort etc and in my opinion unless one has the majority of the origional car with which to build another then that car is lost forever. The point here is that the likes of the Coppins Zephyr Corvette were such iconic cars that if they could be found and rebuilt to origional specs should be allowed in. To build one from scratch today is to build a hotrod.
Allan

In what way would it be a hotrod if one put the time in,to build true to period a car.

[Carlo]

Possibly the '70s John but who is counting. To be fair, my brother Donald started his FFord career with a bang, backwards through the "catch" fencing at Levin while attempting to overtake the field around the outside. My personal favourite early quote was Robin Curtis in MotorAction who described our driving as "driving (the cars) as if they had stolen them".

Donald's name came up in a conversation last night, I have been lead to believe that his pick up line when chatting birds up in UK pubs went something like " Do you have a car and does it have a tow bar". If the answer was yes he gave her some of the good old Woods Bros attention and solved how he was going to get his race car to the next meeting

[Allan]

In what way would it be a hotrod if one put the time in,to build true to period a car.

The problem here, as I see it, is these older cars were built to comply with a different set of rules and used the technology available at the time. You could build an exact copy of one of these but because of the current rules on items such as role cages, using it would not be allowed. Ask Ray (ERC) about cages sometime.
Allan

[Jac Mac]

The problem here, as I see it, is these older cars were built to comply with a different set of rules and used the technology available at the time. You could build an exact copy of one of these but because of the current rules on items such as role cages, using it would not be allowed. Ask Ray (ERC) about cages sometime.
Allan

[color="#0000CD"]I would re-phrase that- there were no rules in regard to roll cages to comply with. Addition of a full cage to any older car or even a modern car will stiffen the chassis and improve the handling to the point that a modern production class can no longer be seen as a true picture of that cars performance and obviously an old classic that once handled like a sponge pudding can be transformed into a joy to drive. BTW I 'waded' thru Ray's build thread one evening.....[/color]