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November 18th, 2007, 10:38 PM
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Rebuilding old cars - called?
Early-ish in New Top Gear, there was a feature on (IIRC) a Jag which had basically had all the original suspension, brakes and various other bits stripped out and replaced by modern versions, while the engine and other remaining mechanical bits were tweaked & tuned - but all the original look of the car was retained.
I think Hamster later had it done to an american car he bought and mentioned it on the show, having earlier done a feature on an unmodified one, which included trying to park in a garage-sized space. What was it called? Or what company did it, is there a Wikipedia/other webpage on it, stuff like that? I want to reference it somewhere else, but these are fairly important details in the referencing 
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November 19th, 2007, 2:49 AM
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You are basically modernizing the car with modern technology and mechanical bits.
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November 19th, 2007, 2:59 AM
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Modern restoration? I may have just made that up.
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November 19th, 2007, 3:04 AM
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Top Gear Season 4 Episode 6.
James May test drives a Jaguar XJS. He refers to it as "modernization." |
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November 19th, 2007, 3:29 AM
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restoration = restoring a vehicle to it's origional state.
resto-mod = restoring a vehicle while upgrading some components with modern technologies. |
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November 19th, 2007, 4:46 AM
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 Ya, when you replace the parts it's a resto mod. But when it's pure restoration with origonal parts, it's just a restoration.
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