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Rich B wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2019 12:49 pm

Mito Man wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2019 12:43 pm It really depends, when looking around for my own car I tried Twisted and Bowler. They had a really specific line of packages and products you could choose from, namely what they already use or is their own brand e.g. I didn’t like their bumpers and asked about a third party one but they recommended I have someone else fit it before. So I did and they ended up building my car to the same spec for 50% cheaper too

youre surprised that bowler/twisted weren’t interested in taking on a job of fitting a bumper to your car? What else were you wanting them to do?

No it was a big project involving the car being down to a bare shell essentially, they just didn’t fit winch bumpers and the winch which is what I wanted and needed to be fit first to sort out the suspension due to the weight so I had to go to someone else, who I ended up liking and introduced me to his place where I got all the rest of the work done.

Mito Man wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2019 1:26 pm

Rich B wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2019 12:49 pm

Mito Man wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2019 12:43 pm It really depends, when looking around for my own car I tried Twisted and Bowler. They had a really specific line of packages and products you could choose from, namely what they already use or is their own brand e.g. I didn’t like their bumpers and asked about a third party one but they recommended I have someone else fit it before. So I did and they ended up building my car to the same spec for 50% cheaper too

youre surprised that bowler/twisted weren’t interested in taking on a job of fitting a bumper to your car? What else were you wanting them to do?

No it was a big project involving the car being down to a bare shell essentially, they just didn’t fit winch bumpers and the winch which is what I wanted and needed to be fit first to sort out the suspension due to the weight so I had to go to someone else, who I ended up liking and introduced me to his place where I got all the rest of the work done.

what was the spec of this bare shell project and who did it then?

JLv3.0 wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2019 1:15 pm I think we're on the same page - refresh it and make it work, but fuck off with your nickel-plated revcounter needle with a unicorn foreskin tip

Correct.

The issue with a lot of the stuff you see turned out by these places is that they are custom made for wealthy people with incredibly poor taste.

I'd like to see prices for a turbo engined one plus also the power and weight figures for a n/a one.

Alfaholics would appear to move the performance of the old 105 Alfa Junior from a fairly pedestrian classic into something that can lap the Ring in under 8 mins with the GTA 290 for £200k . Similarly Singer can turn your 1990 Carrera into something that will scare a 997 GT3 RS for half a million.

This seems more of a total refurb with maybe an extra 40/50 bhp over a Sport Evo ( unless you go for a turbo which is against the ethos of the car for many ). Like some have mentioned you could probably buy an original road car and a stripped out track car for the possible price of this

Be nice to see a bit more info on what you actually get

Zonda_ wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:16 pm I don't understand this trend for modernising old cars. The E30 was great in the day but that day was 30 years ago. If it was the likes of an E Type that had fundamental flaws that Eagle addressed that's one thing but the E30 M3 was pretty damn good as I recall

This. Taking something that looks nice but fairly shit by any reasonable standards underneath - crack on.

This stuff though? No ta, it's expensifying modern classics unnecessarily. It's solely to appeal to NCGs with a fvckton of money trying to outdo each other. Personal resto-mods I have no issue with, just this semi-commercialised nonsense.

Or I'm just feeling a bit grumpy right now.

No that's pretty much bang-on IMO. And I'm never grumpy

Rich B wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2019 3:11 pm

Mito Man wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2019 1:26 pm

Rich B wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2019 12:49 pm youre surprised that bowler/twisted weren’t interested in taking on a job of fitting a bumper to your car? What else were you wanting them to do?

No it was a big project involving the car being down to a bare shell essentially, they just didn’t fit winch bumpers and the winch which is what I wanted and needed to be fit first to sort out the suspension due to the weight so I had to go to someone else, who I ended up liking and introduced me to his place where I got all the rest of the work done.

what was the spec of this bare shell project and who did it then?

Really got your teeth into this one then eh