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Saloons to riches: We help you to build a Special from your Saloon car - April Fools' Day!

April Fools' Day

 

 

The future of pre-war cars is quite a brain-teaser for many of us. The market changes all the time and it is important to follow the trends. For the last years, we noticed the interest in special-built cars is high and only a handful of enthusiasts enjoy a saloon car.

 

Saloon cars

 

In response to this new tendency, we have heard from various organisers of classic car events and clubs, that they would like to ban saloon cars from their fields and events. Therefore, we decided to join their initiative and help private-mechanics to build their dream car.

The first step is that we will add a category to the website especially for cars that are perfect for customisation. We are aiming this at great looking saloon cars, from which the body can be taken off and replaced by a lovely two-seater aluminium body. To encourage you, we are offering a financial bonus for every good saloon-body removal. Besides this, we can also help with the drawings of the new body and if needed we are happy to give technical advice.

To manage all this, we have hired a new employee who is really looking forward to helping you with your projects. His name is Bernard Utcher and although he hasn’t been active in the car business so far, we think he is perfect for the job as he has an enormous passion for this line of work; “I’m really looking forward to it as I think many cars would benefit from a lighter two-seater body. I cut and sold meat before but am really happy to take this step into the classic car world. Therefore I ask everyone with an original car to take the body off and make it more suitable for the modern world. Our first task will be to find the right cars. It is necessary for us to have our priorities right and only use only saloon cars that are still in a decent and very original condition. There is no challenge in using a rolling chassis or cars that are already dilapidated.”

We think this will fit in well with modern times and we would highly recommend that everyone with a suitable saloon car takes this opportunity. The first 10 people who sign up will be given a wonderful satchel. Perfect to place on your spare wheel. Additionally, every participant in this project gets a selection of stickers to put on their car.

To enter your car, please send us an email (click here).

 

Pubblicato:
giovedì aprile 1st, 2021
Andy J
04 Aprile 2021, 10:20
Dr Michael

The link
http://www.fiva.org/wp-content/uploads/Charter-of-Turin-2017.pdf
is not operative.
Please can you tell us where one can download the pdf?

Many thanks
Andy
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Dr. Michael
01 Aprile 2021, 17:04
Anyone who wonders what Enryte meant by the "Charter Of Turin" which is (was) no April Fool's joke nor having anything to do with the Shroud of Turin.... can read this: https://fiva.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Q-and-A-CoT-Handbook.pdf
And those in dire need of acquiring the knowledge and wisdom embodied in the Charter Of Turin Itself.... can download a soft copy here http://www.fiva.org/wp-content/uploads/Charter-of-Turin-2017.pdf


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Enryte
01 Aprile 2021, 15:13
Every year I get caught! What a dope! Nevertheless, there is a serious conversation to be had. Keep up the good work fellas.
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Tim Wright
01 Aprile 2021, 12:27
Brilliant!
It's definitely the way to go - it's worked well for Bentley
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Enryte
01 Aprile 2021, 10:08
It certainly fits with the modern times that the holier-than-thou promote shaming the creative and independently-minded. Some time ago, there was such an ideologue who said he'd rather scrap his (incidently quite rare) car, rather than sell and it by chance fall into the hands of a Special Builder.
By and large, we're not the thoughtless saboteurs of our heritage that is the popular myth, anymore than factory-built examples of the Austin 7 are in short supply because of the reckless attentions of the so-called body-snatchers.
If you're a bit sniffy about Specials, rather than encourage the sort of lunacy of the Charter of Turin crusader (even the FBHVC eventually wised up to that nonsense) why not open up a conversation with the Special Builders and get some facts under your belt.
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Mike Costigan
01 Aprile 2021, 10:05
Pieter Veenje
01 Aprile 2021, 09:38
A good joke on the 1april.
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Joop Terpstra
01 Aprile 2021, 09:28
A cute 1st of April fool joke....?
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David Scott
01 Aprile 2021, 09:22
Good one, a "poisson d'avril", I for one should be very interested to know how many enquiries you get!!
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Christoph Röhrs
01 Aprile 2021, 08:52
I'm sure the world will look different tomorrow........
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Jeremy Morris
01 Aprile 2021, 08:24
Let's see who takes this on in the current climate...
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Paul Edgar
01 Aprile 2021, 07:00
Well today is after all April Fools Day!!
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Steve Hughes
01 Aprile 2021, 06:53
Now just woken up to remember it is 1st April. !! LOL
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Steve Hughes
01 Aprile 2021, 06:40
Wolseley Hornet 12hp 1932 Body now remove as it was rotten. Ready to start.
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Jeff Perkins
01 Aprile 2021, 04:19
I am not one to be April fooled.....Happy April fools day!
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Andy
01 Aprile 2021, 00:31
Very good guys but I know you lot too well. I'm going to take a nice original tourer body off my 1920's Darracq and fitting a more modern type saloon body so that I can stay dry when it rains and the roof will keep the sun off my bald spot when it's sunny and I won't get burnt anymore.
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