AF Lowrider contest!

Okay, the rules are below and remember: It's for fun!!! :iceslolan
1. Everyone starts out with a kit and post a pic of their kit on Feb 1st and 2nd.

2. The build begins officially on Feb1st and ends Feb 28th.

3. On Feb 28th you post the picture of whatever you have completed to date and it gets judged in another thread by all AF members.

4. Any year lowrider, any scale, any make/model.

5. Anything goes, hoppers, stationary, any accessories, any color.

6. Must post at least 5 pictures every week of your progress, more are encouraged.

7. Everyone posts in the same thread and at the end of the contest everyone posts 3 pictures of their finished car in a separate *completed* contest thread.
Progress thread is HERE (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1519369#post1519369).
Now get started!! :smokin:

I Am In!!!

How long has this been around? It already the first....

It's just an idea for a chance to have a little fun; the idea kind of popped up all of a sudden as a friendly contest between slk320 and myself and kind of snowballed from there! :iceslolan . Have fun with it! Life's too short! :)

I dont think I have any extra kits :p

I don't have any kits lying around that would be good for this, but I'll be watchin it. :-)

I´m in if I can wait one week to post pics of the kit. It´s late sunday night and I´m gonna go back to the army and I will be gone all week. So I hope I´m not band from this for entering it a week too late.

Bugger...no lowrider kit

I'm in this. I got an ultimate lowrider I made a while back.

This should be good. The contest is going to be interesting because everyone has a different opinions on lowriders. Some like plain and clean some like super wild.

Good idea nonetheless.

Im a big lowrider fan, and I would love to join the competition, but... No digital camera, and all my friends cams are crap :mad:

lol. Dude. My camera just broke too. bummer.

:thumbsdow I won't have a kit or more wheels until at least 1 month away, that sucks. I want to get a good model in and the next one I'm building I plan to put my best in.
I'd be happy to help out though Antonio :sunglasse If you don't get enough entries within the month then could we put this contest 1 month away starting time? :biggrin:

What will, exactly, qualify as a lowrider?

I've had a 1959 Impala project on deck that I was going to do in a retro-fusion sled style, with some mild shaving, a cherry burgundy paint scheme, a mildly tuned version of the kit 348 (have some stellar Offenhauser intake and exhaust parts for it) and some Pegasus Hobbies 20" Bellagios wheels I picked up at the local hobby shop.

I just never got around to really starting it. Would it qualify?

I am in (picture tomorow if i find the kit back lol)

What will, exactly, qualify as a lowrider?

I've had a 1959 Impala project on deck that I was going to do in a retro-fusion sled style, with some mild shaving, a cherry burgundy paint scheme, a mildly tuned version of the kit 348 (have some stellar Offenhauser intake and exhaust parts for it) and some Pegasus Hobbies 20" Bellagios wheels I picked up at the local hobby shop.

I just never got around to really starting it. Would it qualify?
Not exactly, but Antonio didn't specify a category or Lowrider that is permitted. I would classify that 59 as a street rod or a custom, not a Lowrider. It all depends really, to me the model would at least need whitewall tires and either wire wheels or supremes, nothing else. Maximum wheel size for a modern lowrider would bave to be a scale 18" and anything underneath that size would be ok, no flamejobs, no chop tops, no big chrome wheels. This is my understanding of Lowriders, I'm not making this any part of the contest, just explaining to those who don't exactly know what a lowrider is.
Year limits would have to apply for what is a lowrider aswell, you can't exactly get a 32 ford and put wire wheels on it. A bomb would be anything from say 1938 - 1958, traditional would be 1959 - I dunno, say 1970? Modern would be anything after, I'm not sure on moderns, I don't like them alot, Traditionals and Bombas all the way :sunglasse

I'm in.

J. Barry

Well i'd make a lowrider truck on airbags, but i dont think that would count, can someone let me know if i can do this?? It would be the ram vts, on airbags, with some chromies. Thanks!

yeah, no problem with that.. whatever you want!

Would technically be a minitruck, but I guess as long as it is low it goes!
I think I will make a more strict lowrider contest a short while after this one, I'll see if I can do it in conjunction with Lay it Low too.

HEY PURPURA, IM GOING TO HAVE TO DISAGREE ON WHAT YOU SAID BOUT THE 59. any impala, thats 58-96 can deffenatly be a lowrider. if you guys arent sure of what a lowrider should look like, check out lowridermagazine.com. mostly every lowrider has the following:
wire wheels
hydros in the trunk
custom paint
murals on trunk, and hood, and basicly anywhere esle on the body
suicide doors,hood,trunk
chromed out engine
custom interior.

I didn't say 96s werent a lowrider, I said they aren't traditional, obviously they are not.

i'm with purpura, should get a more strict lowrider contest goin soon, should be good!

you said up top that you dont think a 59 could be a lowrider. i dont think the rules said it has to be traditional. there are several lowrider catigories:
traditional
custom
radical
bombs

im getting a camera friday so you guys can see how i get down.

Use your imagination!! Lowrider Magazine has several offshoot magazines; use those and your creativity!! It's just for fun, Remember what FUN is?

is it too late to join???

nope.. as long as your model is completed by 28th ;)

oh ok

im doin a 55 nomad

its jan. 03, im in , but im making a 56 chevy truck kind of streettruck/lowrider. be as low as it can go though, 17 inch chrome rims,
possibly bed cover with mural on it...that is if i can find a.......well if i said that then mabye somone would copy me......lol.

i just have a problem with the 5 picture week thing ill try to get a digital camera as soon as i can.....

you said up top that you dont think a 59 could be a lowrider. i dont think the rules said it has to be traditional. there are several lowrider catigories:
traditional
custom
radical
bombs

im getting a camera friday so you guys can see how i get down.
Well I don't know what you classify as a lowrider but I don't classify a Minitruck or a car sittin on 20 inch chrome rims a lowrider. I said the 59 wouldn't be a lowrider, only because it would have huge chrome rims and to me, the only people who put huge chrome rims on 59 impalas are rodders, street rodders or hot rodders.

Does it have to be a lowrider kit to start with.Or can it be a regular kit customized into a lowrider?

Why not? Alot of people make hoppers and dancers out of the AMT line of Impalas, AMT doesn't make specified lowrider kits besides the Monte Carlo and the Riviera. Antonio is doing an AMT Electra, it isn't a specified lowrider kit.

Purpura is correct! It's all about imagination, creativity, and fun!! If you mentally envision it as a lowrider, then it IS one :sunglasse

Is it too late to enter,
i just picked this up yesterday
http://www.fe.psu.edu/~rjp251/Wagon.jpg

is it too late to enter i just found this today?

Not too late at all :sunglasse ; for those who have a disdain for this contest, I apologize for trying to stir a little interest in somebody trying to build a kit with a little creativity. Feel free to sponsor your own contest. Nah I don't really apologize. If you don't agree with what I'm doing, I don't really give a flying f^ck.

sweet i just got my project