Think you missed my point.... the paint is more of a personal opinion on stance and your car.
Man made bodge rat look i just don't like. The majority, is just like people who can't modify there car, so they just take a wire wheel to there roof or bonnet. I have no idea how that became cool lol. I don't mind a real rat car, with hanging mold and real rust, somehow squeezing through an mot being dragged out of a barn.
I see stance as bringing everything together, looking at something and thinking hell yea that's sweet. It just works? Ride height, fitment and all the personal touches that make a car. Like the red mk1 mini that's been posted up on here a bit.
So i look at the car above and to me it hasn't got it, unfortunately. Man made rat look. Yea, its got fitment and ride height down but the rest just doesn't work for me.
Hence why i say get some proper paint and take those rear arches off.
Honestly I do get hat you're trying I get at, but you're talking out of your arse. And that's putting it politely.
'stance' is how a car sits. The stance of a car is not how the paint looks, you're talking about not liking the styling of a car, which fair enough its up to you what you like.
The beetle above, isn't a 'man made' rat. Do you know anything about how famous that car and owner are? Just googling his name you will find pages of people on forums and the like slagging him off. He started the brand hoodride, you might of heard of it as it is now, but that's not what hoodride was about. He started the brand and the trend for people digging cars out and running them notated what they look like. When people started rusting their bonnet or putting a roof rack on then ordering hoodride stencils to spray on it he got pissed off, the 'man made' rat look took away the essence of what it is about. Everything you will hear of him is about how he ripped people off not sending them stuff out and owing them money for it, it's because they took something from him so he ******* them all off and stopped giving back. One of my close friends use to know him during this time am soon after he just disappeared from car scenes. Nobody quite gets it, the mini scene is full of that's sort of people, scared of change and something different.
And if you were referring to my car as a man made rat. Then I'm afraid you're wrong again, telling me I need 'propper paint' for a stanced car, again, is just the start of it. The front end, and passenger door and boot lid are the only parts of my car not in it's original paint, so how can that be man made rat? I never call my car a 'rat look' it is what it is. The bonnet and boot were bare metal and in a mates garden for a few years with most of the stickers already on, the man made rain must of caused the surface rust then? I put them on my car because I liked how they look an needed those panels.
You're talking about people with ratty cars saying they don't know how to modify them? You're talking about those kids with a mk5 golf with a rusted bonnet, go to Santa pod and see if any car you ever build will beat one of my friends vw club members down the strip. But you must be able to seen as though theyre low and ratty, so they can't be modified or drive fast.
If you think I just took a wire wheel to my car because I don't know how to modify then your wrong again, how many other people have fitted 10" steelies over fiesta brakes? Or is in the process of building and designing modified subframes? You're assumptions are premature, and sound try they fell out of the wrong end of your body
The front end was replaced as it had rotted through, and the door was reversed into so it was replaced by another door that was in primer.
All of the above just further proves that you don't have a clue about it, so I don't get what your argument is? You don't like how my car looks, so what? It's got a story, it's got history other than that "it looked it's age so it was restored in shiny paint and chrome" like 90% of classic cars. I have said before that how my car sits is a work in progress, so "lose the arches, change te wheels and get some propper paint" just doesn't cut it.
If you ever get your name on the logbook then you can start deciding how it looks. I haven't told anyone here how to style their car, each to their own.
There are plenty of people who appreciate my car for what it is, even if it's not their style. Car lifestyle conpanies across the world posting pictures of my car on their social networks, so I post pictures up for those people.
So if you don't like it, scroll past it
