I'm too old for the originals so I just take film as standalone. Obviously going to be a follow-up. Hopefully it'll be Camaro vs Mustang vs Challenger. Muscle car mayhem.
Make it Camaro v Mustang v Corvette v Challenger v TransAm v Thunderbird and you have the typical Saturday evening run-off on my family home's country lane.
means 200 foot pounds of pressure to work the clutch and real engine heat coming into the passenger compartment. And you need to get at least .8 lateral Gs when cornering. Plus double-throated roar when down-shifting above 100 kph.
Friend in Richmond Virginia has a 70's one he rebuilt himself. Took it for a blast down a lane. Every time I floored it, it lost the rear end sideways. Months later he discovered he was missing one of the rear suspension parts! Top fun.
@hanksweden - True but Corvette has been down a design dead-end since the mid-80's just like the Mustang was. Retro might be the way forward. If I lived in US I would be driving new Mustang or Challenger without any doubt. Sod the kids, they can walk.
but if you're a true Maker, you could tinker in your garage and rebuild a vintage Mustang from parts. It might take five or six years but you can find things like FAS schemes to adopt your baby and they will help recraft the lines of a true muscle car.
I spent my teenage years buying all the UK kit-car magazines with dreams of building replicas of famous cars. Never got beyond the magazines.
Owning Citroens for 10 years has put me off car twiddling for life. I think I still have the part for the hydropneumatic suspension on my BX that was going to solve the nose-to-the-sky problem. Never even got as far as buying axle stands. I used to roll start my AX backwards down our car-port in Kimmage most mornings. Having said all of that, if I had the money I think I'd buy a C6 just for the looks.
So how about starting a socnet where we jointly put together a car from parts? My youngest brother could provide nearly a container full of 1950s Cadillac parts. Imagine a 21-foot 6-litre metal boat with fins on Irish roads. You could park where you wanted and people would think it was a sculpture. The radios have vacuum tubes and the windscreen wipers are pneumatic.
@conoro Of course I would like a retro-Corvette also! But I don't think there will be any money in it for GM. How many would buy it? Would it take sales of existing Corvette sales? Make new spare parts that they need to keep? (I work in the car manufacturing industry.)
Oh I meant that the next model should be retro and replace the current approach. They can probably re-use 90% of the parts from the current model and just give it old-school body and interior. It's still fibreglass body isn't it?
Crowd-Building something. List all the parts, and have people donate them - if you get every single part checked off online, then everyone commits to sending you their bit.
The Transformer movie was the first one in years that had me sitting on the edge of my seat with sweaty palms all through the movie.
Best movie this year by far!
You can scavenge nearly everything you need to build a 70s Vette or 60s Cadillac and feel good rescuing the parts from junk yards abd behind gas stations across the US.
I thought the point was to build something new (namely a retro STYLE corvette) and not a simple re-build.
Loved the movie, but I know about 25 years of back story for the universe so I think I was converted long before it...
I would prefer a chauffeur to a muscle car, but I would mind my own ecocab.ie style whateveritis
29 comments so far
Have you listened to the director's comments? Good commentary about traditional Japanese animation, characters and movement.
1 year, 11 months ago by topgold
Why do fantastically animated robots and then barely show them in jitter-cam? The film is a mess.
1 year, 11 months ago by Festoon
No No No! There's a Japanese dimension that adds a cultural value to Transformers.
1 year, 11 months ago by topgold
I've been a fan since childhood. Mr Bay just can't make films anymore.
1 year, 11 months ago by Festoon
Agree. Bay is over-reaching with gratuitous fx.
1 year, 11 months ago by topgold
I'm too old for the originals so I just take film as standalone. Obviously going to be a follow-up. Hopefully it'll be Camaro vs Mustang vs Challenger. Muscle car mayhem.
1 year, 11 months ago by conoro
Make it Camaro v Mustang v Corvette v Challenger v TransAm v Thunderbird and you have the typical Saturday evening run-off on my family home's country lane.
1 year, 11 months ago by topgold
The question is, will we see a retro-Corvette next?
1 year, 11 months ago by conoro
>The question is, will we see a retro-Corvette next?
Probaly not, an old one can be bought easily.
1 year, 11 months ago by hanksweden
@hanksweden : whoa! how did you quote that @conoro 's msg? new jaiku feature or some html formatting?
1 year, 11 months ago by tabrez
only used the > "larger than sign" when quote!
1 year, 11 months ago by hanksweden
>retro-corvette
means 200 foot pounds of pressure to work the clutch and real engine heat coming into the passenger compartment. And you need to get at least .8 lateral Gs when cornering. Plus double-throated roar when down-shifting above 100 kph.
1 year, 11 months ago by topgold
Friend in Richmond Virginia has a 70's one he rebuilt himself. Took it for a blast down a lane. Every time I floored it, it lost the rear end sideways. Months later he discovered he was missing one of the rear suspension parts! Top fun.
1 year, 11 months ago by conoro
@hanksweden - True but Corvette has been down a design dead-end since the mid-80's just like the Mustang was. Retro might be the way forward. If I lived in US I would be driving new Mustang or Challenger without any doubt. Sod the kids, they can walk.
1 year, 11 months ago by conoro
Didn't know about quoting on jaiku. Nice one.
1 year, 11 months ago by conoro
>If I lived in US I would be driving new Mustang
but if you're a true Maker, you could tinker in your garage and rebuild a vintage Mustang from parts. It might take five or six years but you can find things like FAS schemes to adopt your baby and they will help recraft the lines of a true muscle car.
1 year, 11 months ago by topgold
I spent my teenage years buying all the UK kit-car magazines with dreams of building replicas of famous cars. Never got beyond the magazines.
Owning Citroens for 10 years has put me off car twiddling for life. I think I still have the part for the hydropneumatic suspension on my BX that was going to solve the nose-to-the-sky problem. Never even got as far as buying axle stands. I used to roll start my AX backwards down our car-port in Kimmage most mornings. Having said all of that, if I had the money I think I'd buy a C6 just for the looks.
1 year, 11 months ago by conoro
>Never got beyond the magazines.
So how about starting a socnet where we jointly put together a car from parts? My youngest brother could provide nearly a container full of 1950s Cadillac parts. Imagine a 21-foot 6-litre metal boat with fins on Irish roads. You could park where you wanted and people would think it was a sculpture. The radios have vacuum tubes and the windscreen wipers are pneumatic.
1 year, 11 months ago by topgold
@conoro Of course I would like a retro-Corvette also! But I don't think there will be any money in it for GM. How many would buy it? Would it take sales of existing Corvette sales? Make new spare parts that they need to keep? (I work in the car manufacturing industry.)
1 year, 11 months ago by hanksweden
Oh I meant that the next model should be retro and replace the current approach. They can probably re-use 90% of the parts from the current model and just give it old-school body and interior. It's still fibreglass body isn't it?
1 year, 11 months ago by conoro
I love that idea Bernie. We'd have to make it in Athlone for everyone to be equi-distant :-)
1 year, 11 months ago by conoro
Bernie, that is actually an amazing idea.
Crowd-Building something. List all the parts, and have people donate them - if you get every single part checked off online, then everyone commits to sending you their bit.
NICE!
1 year, 11 months ago by rgb
The Transformer movie was the first one in years that had me sitting on the edge of my seat with sweaty palms all through the movie. Best movie this year by far!
1 year, 11 months ago by Evertb
As for cars; all I want is a stripped down, shaved & chopped Hummer 1...
1 year, 11 months ago by Evertb
> crowd building
You can scavenge nearly everything you need to build a 70s Vette or 60s Cadillac and feel good rescuing the parts from junk yards abd behind gas stations across the US.
1 year, 11 months ago by topgold
I thought the point was to build something new (namely a retro STYLE corvette) and not a simple re-build. Loved the movie, but I know about 25 years of back story for the universe so I think I was converted long before it... I would prefer a chauffeur to a muscle car, but I would mind my own ecocab.ie style whateveritis
1 year, 11 months ago by WillKnott
Evertb, I guess you didn't see "Sunshine". Holy shit that one was intense.
1 year, 11 months ago by Texrat
For a sec I thought you meant Little Miss Sunshine!
1 year, 11 months ago by conoro
lol... that is a good movie, too, but entirely different.
1 year, 11 months ago by Texrat