A challenge about reimagining something we made back in the Kee/early UE4 days? I’ve never seen that before…
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oh man… 
It’s not my first, but its the earliest that I can find that still has a working link / picture
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My problem is that I don’t think my design skills have improved at all during the course of playing this game…
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The earliest one i got pictures of is this thing i made in 2021 but then remade it iirc
but the earliest car i made in automation is this thing?
both look not good.
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So it’s just design and not engineering right?
Also, might want to look into how ecactly you’re making the google form, I feel like it’s easy to make a form that’s awkward to fill out… (Maybe more than one category pleople rate (authenticity/5 & HDness/5 ?))
tiny nitpick of the post
the deadline date is really hard to read, idk if its me being on mobile or something so the gradient lines up weirdly but it’s a light beige on a light baby blue so it just blends in
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aha well, the first lore car I made also happens to be the earliest car I can find images of (February 2019), I did make a few things during kee but those are long gone now. My first challenge car however was for CSC 2. Now, it wouldn’t exactly be fair to use the first car, the Z - S as my entry because well, I’ve remastered it about 6 times already, one recently. So, I believe I will be choosing the CSC 2 car. What a nostalgic challenge 
First car
[Zephorus Autos Photo Dump - #2 by Riley]
First challenge car | CSC 2
[The Crowd Sourcing Competition [Round 49] - #61 by Riley]
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Yours looks way better than mine lol
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Everyone starts somewhere, so I think it’s nice to have a challenge to show how much your ability has improved. I had probably 50 hours by that point, and I have 100x that now so I wonder what’s changed lol.
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Well well, I could go very lazy here - the first car that I can confirm I’ve entered into a challenge was a modern flagship GT from Zavir, from late 2016 (yes, that’s back in Kee!) CSR26. It just so happens that I’ve entered its equivalent from the newer form of the brand years later into CSR139 in 2021 
I still have some screenshots of the latter, even though for some annoying and not quite clear to me reason they disappeared from the CSR thread. But even better, I still have the car (which is in fact much older than 2021, but refined numerous times since its creation), so I could update it yet again, being a bit less lazy. TBH I thought it would be harder to find my early cars (the very first ones are long lost unfortunately).
From left (and yes, that’s how cars used to be shown back then, in ye olde times) to right, so far (currently the car I have is missing some details)
But I think I’ll do sth more interesting, and instead I’ll remake an even earlier, mid 2016 Zavir, the earliest one that still can be found on the forum - the Squalo IV. TBH that will mean that I’ll have, in some form, five consecutive generations of the Squalo in my current sandbox, and this sounds fun
So, I’ll be remaking this:
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Unless you somehow want everyone to become clairvoyant and find out the specs from the post, yeah design only lmao (although making the engineering better too should be half the fun lmao). As for the form it’s literally just going to be “What’s your favourite”.
Nothing I can do about the deadline because it’s the forum’s inbuilt date tool, but that also means you can cluck it and it opens a little popup with various timezones including yours.
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That actually looks impressive for a Kee car.
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i only just started playing the game when i made those cars now i have over 200h lol
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edit: nvm who cares
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Danke
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These are 3 of the first designs that I was actually proud of. I came to the realization looong ago (with everyone else) that these are complete ass.
I honestly dont know if I could even find the inspiration to re-create any of these.
Alright, MAYBE the white one, I remember calling it the Kitama.
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I found this one from 2019. The Phoenix Montana.
It was the first car I was proud of, but it hasn’t aged well. I’ve been wanting to remake it for a while, so count me in.
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I think this was the first picture I ever took from the first car I ever made. Picture says it’s from 2016:
I honestly don’t know how the hell I would remake this (or even if I’d want to). But it’s crazy seeing this again.
Edit: Here’s another VERY EARLY one, I was trying to recreate my first car (1981 Pontiac Bonneville). I remember taking FOREVER on those side marker lights lol
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Since these are some of my earliest builds with photographic evidence and a desire for a redo, I think I’ll try my hand at recreating this Totally-Not-An-Acura from 2019. At the very least, I haven’t done something like it in a while.
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This is a rebuild of the very first build I posted in the Automation Official Discord in March 2021
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Impeccable timing; I have occasion to remaster (ok, with a few years added) a certain notorious Personal Luxury Wagon…
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