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lemming 16 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This is amazing! Very refreshing in the age of AI to see so much manual building going on. Sadly I don’t have much time myself but I have several friends who would love this, I’ll pass it on to them.

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Imustaskforhelp an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Ohh this is the type of stuff that interests me although I am not a car fan but I like what you are doing with the aggregation/old-school DIY forums.

Good luck with your build and perhaps I might get interested in future too as I did once have a thought that having a custom car to me would reflect more cool-ness than an expensive one. I am really interested by small cars, perhaps retro. I imagine my favourite car to be somewhat like the car that Ryan gosling drives in La La Land.

but a cool project nonetheless, certainly thinking about it inspires a bit of car enthusiasm within me even though I am not that much of a car fan so much right now so a really cool project if it can help more people feel this spirit. good luck :-D

I have a question but how does building new (retro-inspired?) cars go about in terms of pricing. I feel like they might be too costly to get custom-built and that If I really ever in my life go about doing this, I would prefer DIY but I still imagine that it might be too expensive or hard to make a car. Are there any go-to cars which are easy/recommended within this space and how does it compare off economically and what are the technical expertise that you require with this type of stuff?

Once again, I wish ya good luck in the project and would love to hear your answers for some of the questions I have!

	▲	winterbourne an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks; much appreciated. I picked up an endless list of new build interests in starting the site and exploring different niche forums. Turns out I really like wooden boat builds, cyclekarts, intricate custom knives, handmade violins, the list goes on... You're right that getting a car custom-built is where the costs add up quickly; easily north of $50K. Most of the cost is labor, which is $0 if you do it yourself. Some of the projects are much easier than others. If you want to fall down a rabbit hole, look in the kit car and hot rod categories; lots of affordable and small builds in there. The Buick Riviera in La La Land is more of a resto-mod cruiser project, but the small/retro itch is exactly what the kit car category scratches. The first step is to find a forum where people are building the car you like, and start following related build threads. That's the majority of my social media intake these days.