Your dream car project
Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 10:50 pm
Hey, I thinked on this recently and I thinked it would be a intresting pool to discuss here.
I guess everybody here has (at least) 1 dream car. But, altough I would like to have a stock car, I think I would prefer a custom rod, built by me, as a dream car.
In my case, this is my dream project: taking the body of a old muscle (my ideal cars are a 70 Dodge Charger, Plymouth Roadrunner, Dodge Dart, Mustang Mach 1 (the later models), 68 Mustang, Chevrolet Nova, or something like this); then I wanted a newer V8 engine or the stock engine of the car but customized and improved. The engine should have a supercharger, one of the big ones passing trough the hood, and the exaust pipes comming from the sides of the car. The car should have working vent tunnels (not sure if vent s the right word) and custom interior. There is also a list I imagined of stuff it should have/ parameters it should respect:
-> The colour of it should be black, and maybe with some effects in red like a red ring on the wheels ar some red painted stuff on it.
-> The suspensions should be a bit (but not too much) lowered. Since I want it to be street legal and can even drive arround with it, it should have a kind of hydraulic suspension, controled form the inside, where I could change the high of the car from the ground.
-> The interiors should be redesigned, doing it with black leather and aluminium. It should look simple and somehow agressive. The sits would be designed making them look similar to the original ones but more confortable and secure. the doors would have some alluminium parts and black leather, and also automatic oppening windows (but the buttons to use it looking simple, since the original car don't have this).
-> The windows should be dark.
-> the dashboard should look simple, with a equal steering wheel of the original car but in black, and with lots of buttons to control stuff like the suspensions on the dashboard.
-> It should have roll bars installed, not only for safety, but for a more agressive look.
-> I love music. I wanted this car to have a USB entrance to connect a phone or a iPad to listen music on it, and some really good speakers, but to make it don't look stupid, the ultra modern speakers should be hidden hunder some grilles like the original speakers, and the radio would be hidden in the glove compartment.
-> Gas is quite expensive in Portugal and a supercharged V8 can burn lots of it. I don't know if it exists, but if yes, I would like to have a device to turn off the supercharger.
-> The chassis of the car should be the original one, to make easier to make it street legal in Portugal.
-> The performance of this car should be similar to a modern muscle car. I want on it things like modern brake pads, assisted steering, and any other device that would improve the performance of it (except electronics for the interior, the radio is enough).
This is basically my dream car project. Do you have one that would like to share? It don't have to be a custom muscle, it can be a hot rod, a gasser, custom japanese car... idk xD
I guess everybody here has (at least) 1 dream car. But, altough I would like to have a stock car, I think I would prefer a custom rod, built by me, as a dream car.
In my case, this is my dream project: taking the body of a old muscle (my ideal cars are a 70 Dodge Charger, Plymouth Roadrunner, Dodge Dart, Mustang Mach 1 (the later models), 68 Mustang, Chevrolet Nova, or something like this); then I wanted a newer V8 engine or the stock engine of the car but customized and improved. The engine should have a supercharger, one of the big ones passing trough the hood, and the exaust pipes comming from the sides of the car. The car should have working vent tunnels (not sure if vent s the right word) and custom interior. There is also a list I imagined of stuff it should have/ parameters it should respect:
-> The colour of it should be black, and maybe with some effects in red like a red ring on the wheels ar some red painted stuff on it.
-> The suspensions should be a bit (but not too much) lowered. Since I want it to be street legal and can even drive arround with it, it should have a kind of hydraulic suspension, controled form the inside, where I could change the high of the car from the ground.
-> The interiors should be redesigned, doing it with black leather and aluminium. It should look simple and somehow agressive. The sits would be designed making them look similar to the original ones but more confortable and secure. the doors would have some alluminium parts and black leather, and also automatic oppening windows (but the buttons to use it looking simple, since the original car don't have this).
-> The windows should be dark.
-> the dashboard should look simple, with a equal steering wheel of the original car but in black, and with lots of buttons to control stuff like the suspensions on the dashboard.
-> It should have roll bars installed, not only for safety, but for a more agressive look.
-> I love music. I wanted this car to have a USB entrance to connect a phone or a iPad to listen music on it, and some really good speakers, but to make it don't look stupid, the ultra modern speakers should be hidden hunder some grilles like the original speakers, and the radio would be hidden in the glove compartment.
-> Gas is quite expensive in Portugal and a supercharged V8 can burn lots of it. I don't know if it exists, but if yes, I would like to have a device to turn off the supercharger.
-> The chassis of the car should be the original one, to make easier to make it street legal in Portugal.
-> The performance of this car should be similar to a modern muscle car. I want on it things like modern brake pads, assisted steering, and any other device that would improve the performance of it (except electronics for the interior, the radio is enough).
This is basically my dream car project. Do you have one that would like to share? It don't have to be a custom muscle, it can be a hot rod, a gasser, custom japanese car... idk xD
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