taking out perfectly good classic cars out of circulation for the sole purpose of bumping the prices of ones that are spared from this treatmentlisten to the guys doing it, they all boast how they use the best examples they can find for their restomods, it's all a part of the plansome day they will swoop down all the way to 2-door imprezas and last surviving eclipses toocar market is being turned into fine art market right in front of our eyes and we can do nothing about it
The donor for that is probably like a 1.3l with terminal rust
Is Binky a restromod?
>>28656864Yeah but rich people need to spunk millions of dollars on shiny fashionable things so what are you gonna do?
I was thinking about warbirds (ww2 aircraft restored and modernized). Those are pretty cool. But in terms of restomod could you stretch the definition? Like if you took a 98 camry and modernized it with better engine performance and bluetooth headunit but kept the stock aesthetic does that count as a restomod
>>28656870Binky is an elaborate joke.
>>28656864I have yet to see a single restomod that doesn't look like a gay, gaudy larpwagon. They're almost exclusively slammed with the niggerest wheels imaginable and condom thin tires. Also really bad out of place wide body fenders.
>>28656864Restomods are the future of car culture once they stop selling new ICE vehicles. Better start supporting the aftermarket now so the infrastructure is there when you need to build the whole car yourself.
>>28656864why does every resto mod use these cheap looking halos?This shit was played out in the late 2000s
>>28658505I'd rather build a car from scratch than retromod an existing one. Plenty of parts out there and I'm sure with the right know-how, you could frankenstein something something that actually functions as well as any classic.
>>28658519You're going to want a donor body at the very least, engines are all going to be based off existing designs as well, might as well just salvage as much as you can. Aftermarket parts are never going to have as much R&D put into them as OEM, at least not for a similar price. At this point its about preserving what is soon to be an ever dwindling number of ICE cars.
>>28656864restomods make me think of middle age crisis, testosterone replacement therapy, performative masculinity and baldness
most of these I've seen start out as a complete bucket that no one gave a shit about. once the person makes it nice, that's when people complain about taking a classic out of circulation. the restomodder typically keeps the car out of the recyclers.
>>28656864I'm restomodding a 2008 Suzuki Swift 1.3L. You can bitch all you want about me scooping up the classics, but if you wanted it so badly, you should have bought it yourself.
Holy fucking sour grapes. I literally do not care how you build your car, anything that keeps vintage iron on the road is cool in my book.
>>28656864restomods would be cool if they were completely stealth, but they insist on giving the car a "low budget dystopian scifi movie car" makeover. the one in OP isn't that bad but i can tell it's a restomod.
>>28656870Binky is a weird project, they probably would've been better off just building the entire car from sheet metal.
>>28658692They... Kinda are. There's just enough of the Mini left to be considered the same original Mini they started with, the rest is new sheet metal and custom work.
>>28656864if it was "perfectly good" it wouldn't be a restomod, it would just be modded.
>>28658685>restomods would be cool if they were completely stealthMost are.You just didn't know.Thats how good of a job they did.90% of restomods are drivetrain oriented.Hobbyists keep "the look" of the vehicle but drop in a modern EFI engine and upgrade the brakes/interior on occasion.
