QFC65 - Family Values
Leeds, England 1955
Keith is our car buyer for this challenge. He and his wife Gladys are after a small family car after the birth of their new daughter Mary.
Rules
- Open beta only.
- Model and family years are free
- Trim and variant must be 1955
- No legacy/open wheel/meme bodies.
- Tyres must be cross ply with minimum of 80 profile.
- Five seats only. Two front and three rear.
- wheelbase range of 2.1m to 2.5m (in game figure)
- manual steering only
- No race parts.
- 2v heads only.
- 92Ron leaded fuel
- interiors not required.
- No WES rules.
- Stick with realism, do some background studying on what cars were like in Europe in the 50’s.
- ATS can be used sparingly, don’t go making the car look like something it’s not.
- Techpool of $10m, no negative techpool.
- $10,000 max price.
- double wishbone rear suspension is $750 on top of your approximate cost.
- semi trailing arm suspension is $400 on top of your approximate cost.
Priorities
- Driveability
- Comfort
- Reliability
- Purchase price
- Fuel economy and svc cost
- Design, these aren’t outlandish cars. But make it look like a real car.
- Safety
- Environmental resistance
- Practicality.
- Prestige
Realism guidelines
A little bit of help for people not that intimate with the knowledge of early 1950’s European cars. This is information about real cars of the period but not hard rules, just more pointers on what cars were like.
- Mostly rwd at this point, fwd isn’t out of the question but I think the majority of cars would have been longitudinal still even if fwd. Rear engine is definitely on the table and was a popular choice.
- Automatic gearboxes would have been exceptionally rare. 3 or 4 speed manual would have been the go to gearbox type.
- small capacity (800-1500cc) four cylinder engines. Pretty basic and low power
- The smaller end of the cars were drunk brakes all round, discs at the front were seen on larger cars and some exotic outliers.
- The wheels were very small and the tyres very thin, grip seemingly hadn’t been invented yet.
inspirations
Morris Minor
Austin a50 Cambridge
Peugeot 203
Renault Dauphine
Toyopet Crown
saab 93
Volvo Pv444
Standard Ten
Ford Anglia Squire 100e
Submissions
- Round opens Sunday 9 November 1200 GMT
- Round closes Monday 17 November 1900 GMT
- Model and family should be “QFC65 - username”
- Trim and variant are free, ideally the car and engine name otherwise what’s it even called.
- Ad must be posted in this thread within 24 hours of submissions closing
- Send submission by DM through discourse.
Changelog
- added penalty cost for semi trailing suspension
- purchase price is two star priority not three.
- added wheelbase range to rules.
- ban on power steering.
