The Limits of a Whim
Oct. 7th, 2008 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotHey.
Just out of curiosity, I looked up a couple central sources on kit cars. Just to see if there was the possibility of eventually doing something with Moonshine if the opportunity came along.
Moonshine is better off in its current state. The kit car industry these days is more focussed on muscle now than it was when I thought it was in its boom era (the Seventies, when everybody and his brother had conversion kits to transform Volkswagens into Bugatti replicas and dune buggies and those faux Can-Am racers seen in the original Death Race 2000). Yes, you can convert a Corvette into something even hotter. Yes, you can build a Cobra just like the one from Gumball Rally, only with 21st Century suspension components and that modern Ford V8 I mentioned a couple weeks ago. Yes, you could convert a modern pickup truck hulk into a replica 1940 delivery van. You could even take the front and back ends off a ten-year-old T-Bird and replace them with new units that mimick the early Fifties Mercury that James Dean had in Rebel Without A Cause. But there's nothing on the market now that uses Toyota Corolla components and really appeals to me.
I guess what I want, I'd have to design myself.
Harley Earl never used a pencil. Hmm.
Just out of curiosity, I looked up a couple central sources on kit cars. Just to see if there was the possibility of eventually doing something with Moonshine if the opportunity came along.
Moonshine is better off in its current state. The kit car industry these days is more focussed on muscle now than it was when I thought it was in its boom era (the Seventies, when everybody and his brother had conversion kits to transform Volkswagens into Bugatti replicas and dune buggies and those faux Can-Am racers seen in the original Death Race 2000). Yes, you can convert a Corvette into something even hotter. Yes, you can build a Cobra just like the one from Gumball Rally, only with 21st Century suspension components and that modern Ford V8 I mentioned a couple weeks ago. Yes, you could convert a modern pickup truck hulk into a replica 1940 delivery van. You could even take the front and back ends off a ten-year-old T-Bird and replace them with new units that mimick the early Fifties Mercury that James Dean had in Rebel Without A Cause. But there's nothing on the market now that uses Toyota Corolla components and really appeals to me.
I guess what I want, I'd have to design myself.
Harley Earl never used a pencil. Hmm.
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