I am back with the same idea for a challenge, to build a legacy throughout different years, for your cars. It’s a practice of keeping a design langynot only on how you make the car look, but to keep it’s identity through engineering too! Born a dumb muscle car in 60s that burned rubber with an open diff? How did it do after the gas crisis in 80s? What’s the modern tale on it (in 2000s).
The idea is simple, keep a car’s identity
Make me say, oh it’s that car… But there is always more to the story! That’s why this challenge is also focusing on the story you can tell with the car, it takes in the lore/idea that you had behind the car. If something changes, Why? Why was it changed? If it’s justified, then good job! But also if you carry a hard part of the cars identity throughout its life, then good job! That’s great.
Example on this: You made a V12 GT car, but you had to change the V12 to a V8 or V6 through 80s to meet fuel regulations, that is a justified change. BUT, Also there are people that kept the V12 and that also is impressive. These will be elaborated more on in the rules section.
Decisions will be made on a point system. In a simplified terms, it’s a mix of judge’s opinion (yours truly) and mechanical sides of the cars, but also how you carried the design forward with time.
Round 1: The Sixties!
1960-1969, the year of automotive bloom! Supercars, pony cars, cheap speed and fast feud filled cars! Coupe body style can blossom a lot of variety and freedom in designs, so you can try to design something you’re comfortable with, or try something new and challenging! This is a way to train yourself and get better!
Rules of the 60s
Rules don’t disqualify, they reduce points, if your decision has a good lore/justification, you wont lose any points, but it will make it harder for you to gain points, so keep that in mind.
Family names start with (ALL) - Forum name
Body model has to be 1958-1969 (2 years grace for bodies)
Technology used must be 1969 and older (engine and car)
Run on leaded fuel
have a coupe body, If you wish to use a specific body out of the year range, DM me to clear it out.
Have a story/idea explained (a paragraph is enough)
Targeted at a coupe market (Any that has the preferred body style of coupe, convertibles allowed too)
meet safety regulations. Minimum score of 20
60’s focus points
Design /15
Story/Idea /10
Interior design /3 (1 point for just having a dash and seats)
(In future rounds, we gonna have more areas to point)
First round will end on 16th of January 2025 12pm MT
Rules don’t disqualify, they reduce points, if your decision has a good lore/justification, you wont lose any points, but it will make it harder for you to gain points, so keep that in mind.
Added under rules
-If you wish to use a specific body out of the year range, DM me to clear it out.
I’m thinking of approaching this in one of two ways: either launch something early in the 60s and have it stay in production throughout the decade, or make something that debuts in 1969 (the latest cut-off date for eligibility).
Does that refer to variant/trim years, or to unlock years for specific items? That ought to be clarified further.
Also, there are more than a couple 2-door body styles that the game does not consider coupes. Are those bodies ok to use? Or do you want bodies that are specifically designated as coupes?
Goal is for it to be a 60s design, with 60s technology and to keep it fair for everyone1969 is the year you set for variant/trims of engine and the car.
I’d assume that Al-Rilma is not allowed to be used for builds in this challenge, correct? I’m probably still gonna use the stable version but still just wondering since I didn’t see that anywhere in the rules.
Better convince me well with the lore story, other wise that may be a big point loss. Oh right i don’t disqualify, i deduct points for not following the rules.
If I understand, usually a car designed for unleaded fuel can still run leaded, as long as it doesn’t have a catalytic converter (which isn’t available in this period)
So imo tuning for unleaded fuel shouldn’t be a “violation,” since all you’re doing is tuning for a lower octane than is available to you; putting yourself at a minor disadvantage to no benefit.
I mean the market for it is going to be small, the car should match the reason it’s using it, and the design comes on top of the rule-play. Convince me well when you make the car (or make a special trim for it’s unleaded fuel engine.)
In 1965 Marten Manufacturing wanted to get into the SCCA and Trans-Am events so the made a coupe version of their Maven GT saloon. It is the same car underneath featuring the 353 Fuelie V8. It was a solid street car helping fill the homologation numbers needed to go racing. The only short coming of the Maven was its open diff. it was a high tech budget option with its fuel injection and price tag of under 15,000.
The 1967 race version used a de-stroked version of the engine at 305 Cubic inches.
There aren’t any… yet. I am considering limiting myself to $30m-$40m in total (the sum of the engine and trim techpool) for my entry, though, in the interests of realism - but that budget would most likely have to be raised for the 80s and especially 00s entries.
