Welcome to another episode of Retrpower Uncut — number 288, no less… much like the best Ferrari ever made. While we’d quietly suggest that all our videos are worth watching, this one feels especially worthwhile, and particularly if you enjoy watching big-block muscle cars being properly hustled down pothole-strewn rural Leicestershire roads! That’s right: Project Stravaig — our long-term Chevrolet Camaro restomod — is near complete and will soon be handed back to its very lucky owner. Thankfully, we managed to convince Cal to give it one final backroad blast beforehand, because he’s good like that. (Not that it took much arm-twisting…) Elsewhere in the workshop, there’s metalwork progress on the Munich BMW E9 and Wasaabi Saab 900, alongside some exquisite visual refinements from the CAD collective, especially on Project Bassey, the Reliant Scimitar, and Project Geneva, the Jaguar E-Type. Once again, thank you for taking the time to tune in. We genuinely appreciate your support.
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Cal, Don’t worry. Nat covers things he’s talked about before, often in the same sitting.
Anyone else turn the volume up on the Camaro test drive?
Tell me I’m being totally daft but with all the metal work involved in widening the Saab would it have not been easier to split the car down the middle length ways and add a section along the middle, as you can tell I’m not an expert in this field 😂
Got me a beer Hot here in Texas Lets do this
Ferrari Luce.....looks like a bar of soap!
The new Ferrari is imho a mistake. For all its flaws Ferrari road cars will always be associated with carbon fuelled engines, delivering performance, and a driver experience that can only ever be Ferrari. For the money being asked I’d come to Retropower with my 1/2 million and say deliver something retro looking, but contemporary running
I never got American cars. The styling especially. But I've spent years watching American cars shows - 'revivals', "will it run and drive" etc that I've started to get it. Back in the day they shoved a V8 in just about everything and who doesn't need that sound in their life? That Camaro is gorgeous.
Very pleased to see the Camaro is just about finished. Not my personal cup of tea, but very sensibly done (for something with a LS3 engine). The Reliant is looking very, very impressive (my only reticence is that it is probably going to be overpowed...). As for the Luce, I think that not many of the regular RPU viewers would prefer this over nearly 2 projects built by Retropower... In fact, I would prefer the big Panda elecric to being mocked in a Luce.
incidentally there is a you tuber called Mark's Italian Garage remaking a Fiat Dino thats a decent watch too
Utah portofino E type and Churchill. The cats whiskers.
Maybe I'm just too old but that exhaust on the Camaro is way too much once leant on, the "blat" sounds very harsh & lacking in V8 character. Horses for courses.
The Luce to me: A design feast in every detail of the interior and a very cohesive one, but may be not only to the unaccustomed eye - at first glance: Too generic from the outside and too little car aesthetics even from the beautifull inside, too. Too much an obvious child of the person who came up with the I-Phone. Bold move without a characteristic enough outcome as a car?: As brave as VW once was, switching from Beetle to Golf or as Citroen was switching from La Traction to DS, but lacking consciousness and instinct to get to "a new specific", that can be perceived as "a car with character", supposedly - of that one brands intrinsic values - not so much its explicit design vocabulary just to be recited and repeated. Stunning idea of merging two bodies into one and at the same time integrating spoilers, all in one move into one coherent whole. But at the price of the back and the front looking stunningly similar, too? Even the back showing eyes that the front is missing - resulting in a blind face: all mouth, no glance. I wish it all the best of success and to age well. The interior design craftsmanship is flawless in detail execution, in my opinion, a very cohesive and new to the car realm language. Crazy level of elaboration and CMF. I hope it can be a beacon and a benchmark in this regard to the very "screen happy" and "button tight" wave of legacy brand models. I enjoyed being introduced to the design statement of the Luce and appreciate the risk they took as well as the design workmanship they have delivered. Finally I wish, they could have managed to do it as low in its side profile as the one week older, new electric AMG 4-door Coupe. That would have helped the lines.
Great call on the 288 GTO. I do love the look of those things but then I love the look of the Renault 5Turbo 2 as well.
Finally got to drive a car with the steering on the proper side. As a long time fan from the colony on the other side of the pond I must congratulate Retropower for having such talented employees that make near impossible tasks look common place. My best wishes to all.
The Cam sounds WILD, if not even WILDER 🙂 The Agro lets the body scream while having a nice subtle exhaust, just loud enough .
3 brothers and still the daddy has to be involved. Difficulty is relative.
BIG Shout out to the blood bikes!...... You ever thought of doing bikes? Asking for a friend ;-)
2nd, I'm slacking again!
I would advise not to put wet lay on the outside of the E type ( a bodge) the frames was bonded free hand out of the original mould. Disbond the frame locally and use the original mould tool to rebond or dry fit/ shim and bond in situ. I've 25 years composite experience in F1 / hypercar and aerospace. I even worked for a while at the company that made the tooling for that car. Try to get/borrow the original mould tool. Unless you originally did it that way and I missed it! In which case I apologise in advance!
That new Ferrari just looks like an electric car that almost anyone would have designed for any brand. It’s fine I guess. To be fair designing an electric Ferrari is tough. What is it exactly? A sports car? A fancy commuter car? A car for enjoying the meditation coast in the summer? I think they decided it was a fancy every day driver for rich people and so they designed a generic commuter car from the future