Full on wire - contemporary tuning away from the usual
Since it has remained surprisingly quiet in the comments section under the latest blog on the subject of "tuning classic cars" , I would like to inject a little laughing gas into the fire and proclaim with conviction: More courage to tune! Of course, I don't mean that we should all put oversized chrome rims and overly wide body kits of moderate fitting accuracy on our old sheet metal. Rather, I would like to encourage us to look beyond the rim flange of the current modifications.
A sports exhaust on the Triumph TR6 and wider wheels on the BMW 02 are virtually obligatory today. After all, such modifications were already made 50 years ago and I would do the same if I owned one of these two classics. But this focus on tradition sometimes seems to limit creativity a little. Because you can do so much more with other contemporary means if you only dare.
Why not hang three Weber twin carburetors on a six-cylinder Mustang instead of installing the usual replacement V8? Or mount Dunlop wire wheels on an early Porsche 911 instead of the ubiquitous "Fuchsfelgen" (Fuchs rims) as in our photo montage? Of course, it's almost inevitable that you'll have to listen to a lot of stupid questions or silly remarks at the next meeting. But every good idea had a pioneer at some point who simply did their thing unwaveringly.
Thirty years ago, nobody would have thought of screwing a wooden Nardi ND 360 W into their Mercedes-Benz 300 TE. Today, every second W124 tuner has it in their airframe box...
