1953 Burnside Special

Woohoo more Burnside
Maybe the 1980's one will return

 

This is so damn awesome. What's also awesome is Gabe typed "Chrysler Imperial".

 

Really nice one! Well this is even better than the 200Bx what was the car i was looking most to...

 

Thanks Gabester! I absolutely love oldtimers so I really like this car. What engine options will it have and will there be a possibility of a convertible version if it fits it?

 

I loved this car in RoR, it was my favorite and i bet it will be again!

 

Nobody here would know what a Hudson Hornet was if Doc Hudson wasn't one

 

Hmmm, I knew it looked familiar

 

Nice work gabe, I've fancied and older car ingame for a while.

 

Hmm I find it funny how much the Buick Eight, Cadillac Series 62 and the Chrysler Imperial look alike, when they apparantly share no bodypanels whatsoever.

I think the car is way too short though, or too wide/high. All the cars you could've possibly based this on are way longer/sleeker, and especially the Chrysler Imperial! As far as I can see, the main cause for this is that the area from the front of the front door to the back of the rear door should be 10-20cm longer, and the hood should be a lot longer too. The rear also looks to be way too high for a car from this era, gives it a much bulkier look than it should have honestly... :/ All this gives the car almost the proportions of a 49 Ford, or at very least somewhere between a 53 Imperial and a 49 Ford, or even a Hudson Hornet(although with the bulky back)... I bet it'll be real obvious when you put yours next to my 49 Cadillac next to eachother.

Serious? I hope not. If anyone didn't know what a Hudson Hornet is, you can stop calling yourself a car guy, they were even in Mafia 2. Where I used to work, my boss owns a 2-door 1956 Hornet Hollywood, 1 of only 8 2-door Hollywoods in existance in the world apparantly, and his still has its original paint and afaik is numbers matching When you type that name + year in on Google, you get the very car he has in the search results a few times, the green-cream-colored one with either Washington or old Dutch plates.

 

Usually the "seperate" rear fender-over-the-wheels things are only on luxo-barges with very few exeptions, as they later evolved into tailfins on Cadillacs and Impalas and such. Same with the excessive chrome... I think the Mercury Meteors were one of the only exceptions, but even those don't have the real over-fender things nor that much chrome, just enough to hint at it.

Also, @ the 53 Dodge: Yes, it's much taller and shorter. It's also much skinnier, not anywhere near a bulky. As much as I do like the design on the Burnside, I don't think the proportions work for the type of car it is trying to portray. It has the width, bulkyness and chrome trim of a land-yacht like a Cadillac, but it has the lenght and height of a much cheaper car.
The 53 Desoto is also a lot more expensive than the 53 Dodge, you can tell by the chrome and the covered rear wheels + seperate rear fender things, much closer to the Burnside in proportion and class imho than the Imperial. Again though, look at the space between the front of the rear door and the start of the rear fender. It's much larger than on the Burnside, as all the cars from this era with those rear fenders have. On the Burnside that distance is 5-10 cm shorter. Then the front door itself is also 5-10 cm shorter, AND the hood is also 15 or so cm shorter on the Burnside.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJrXViFfMGk

Brutal smash? this would be so fun pure destruction?

 

The 59 Impala is afaik the only car from the era with a stupid X-frame that makes it way weaker compared to any of it's rivals. This is why it was selected for that test. On top of that, they purposely made it not hit head-on and instead they did an offset collision so it would miss the engine and pushed the frame out of the way on the Impala. If it had hit the engine head-on, the Impala wouldn't have looked nearly as unsafe, because it would've hit the framerails properly, and the engine would've smashed into the firewall and prevented a lot of the deformation. Right now, it just hit some sheet-metal which meant the Malibu could plow right through it. Everything in the preparation of that "test" was done to put the Impala at a disadvantage. A 53 Imperial or 2.3 ton Cadillac would've plowed right through that Malibu. Regardless, it was a waste of a classic car, and whoever came up with "doing a test to prove the obvious" and wrecking a classic like that should be banned from ever touching a car again.

I really hope Gabe doesn't decide to give his Burnside one of those dumb X-frames and does the car justice. Especially Imperials, as he says it's based on that, are built like tanks. They were SO strong in fact that they were banned from demolition derbys.

 

To be fair, the IIHS does offset collisions for every car it tests, rather than direct head on hits.

 

Brb, gonna craft a time machine and bring the finished product back to today.

 

Reminds me of the GAZ-M20 Pobeda for some reason.

 

I'm getting Mafia 2's Potomac Indian from this... love it!

 

awsome model, i hope there will be a gasser model for this big drag tires on the back little on the front

 

Yes there will be cause I love gassers.

 

I'm happy that Gabester is like the only one making legit cars.