My rant at PVW

[Len]

Now Carl I dont think yours is worth quite that much! Nearly!

[carl]

come on len i woudnt say that about your car

[Len]

But I have no intention of selling mine - therefore to me its worth millions!

[SLIM-DUB]

sorry i have to agree with the rant,pvw have the choices of looking thru all the forums,seeing all the project threads etc and they use those 2 cars,fair enuff they are nice motors,but surely if a colour concept can get in,my vr6 should get in just for having the engine! dont get me wrong im not b!tching at the cars,and to say they have been done on a budget,when there rims probably cost more than my car,is a bit much! there are plenty of awesome cars that have graced these forums over the last year,so how come not more have made it?! makes us as the uk scene look bad when really we probably lead the way at the moment! 

[golfpro]

I agree too. I was lookin through at them. Why put dailies like that in when people like joe and hardcor3 have created absolutely beautiful daily drives with their mk2 and vr6. They were done on a budget as about everything was done themselves and they are both a million times better. Come on PVW, pull the finger out and find the true beauties that are well and truely out there to be found!

[gibby]

Joe doesn't actually use his as a daily driver, but I'm sure that in the future it will have a feature in one of the magazines at some point. Especially as Joe has actually done all his own engine, all his own interior etc.

It's not just down to Golf+ or PVW finding the cars though, people can actually make the cars known to them. I'm all for telling them about Joe's car but in his own mind it's not finished yet but as soon as he says it's nearly there I'll e-mail the mags his project thread from here.

[Organisys]

PVW sucks a fat one. I havn't re-subscribed.. Very lacking in technical content, written by children....
Jord is right, and yes Joe's car is Phat!

[...joe]

Joe doesn't actually use his as a daily driver, but I'm sure that in the future it will have a feature in one of the magazines at some point. Especially as Joe has actually done all his own engine, all his own interior etc.

It's not just down to Golf+ or PVW finding the cars though, people can actually make the cars known to them. I'm all for telling them about Joe's car but in his own mind it's not finished yet but as soon as he says it's nearly there I'll e-mail the mags his project thread from here.

cheers gibby! but thats exactly the point. although its not a daily driver, without being big headed i can't see why my car won't be featured once i'm happy with it (doubt it'll ever be finished ) but if/when it does it'll only be because i'd have to let the magazines know about it, they're not going to come knocking on my door....

ultimately some people don't care if their cars are featured in magazines or not. i built my car for myself and it's pretty much how i always wanted it when i bought it 5 years ago, but to get a feature would be the iceing on the cake and kind of validate what i think of my own car. at the same time it offers it up for critisism which i hate! hence me not entering as many show and shines as some people think i should 

thanks for the comment though phil and while i agree with jord that those two colour concepts weren't anything amazing, you can see why they did the feature, two simliar base models, few sublte tweaks, both cars you'd be happy driving..

and yes Joe's car is Phat!

cheers rob :embarassed: for some reason i always though you never rated my car?!

[Dub-77]

I've been in contact with PVW as there offices are only a mile or so away from me, I spoke to Simon there and he was interested in doing a piece on my car. Although my car is only a nice clean looking MK2 16v Golf that I have restored, Colour coded all the plastic's and taken all the side rubbing strips off NO ENGINE MODS still got all the orig grime etc no shinny bits.
He stated he did not know how bigger piece it would be but he would put it in there he asked me for some more pictures of the car finished and at the time all I had was pictures in my Garage but now I have more so maybe it will have a small piece in the mag. I did not do this project to get it in a magazine as it is my daily drive about that i like to keep looking nice,  but thought I would contact them to get a local (to the PVW offices) Golf in the Mag. As Joe said they will not come knocking on your door so if any one is interested in getting a piece in there magazine then give them a ring whats the worst they can say...No....

Darren

[Organisys]

Joe, I can understand you not showing your car that much as there is too much nit picking in the scene, also the standard of the best show cars is very high, and to my mind would take either a very large cheque book and / or a LOT of time with a lit heated garage to match.
Like I said, i think your car is Phat, I particularly like the fact that you have done most of the work yourself.