1953 Burnside Special

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We also need an incredibly sexist bright pink "La Femme" config and a practically useless record player in the dash.

 

Given that there's no-in car audio, how would we know if the record player was useless?

I'm not a fan of the idea of the config, but I think it would be worthwhile to have at least one salmon-pink-and-white stock configuration ready to go, maybe one of the coupes if we ever get those as part of the stock game.

 

Mmmmmmm salmon pink.
Would like to really see an official wagon body, possibly with structural wood.

 

I kinda want a cheap communist or third-world version.

 

Cuban version with a diesel 4 banger?
Same.

 

On the subject of wagons, I hear that '51 Ford wagons were outfitted with 3.91 and 4.27 differentials as compared to the sedan's 3.73 and 4.10. Even if we don't get a wagon, I can see a separate set of wagon differentials being useful.

I'd actually like a Cuban Burnside, with an eighties Russian diesel and that curious patina it seems that only Cuban cars develop:

 

A lot of pulled-out-of-the-field US cars sport similar patina.

 

I can't believe I'm saying this, but SuperAusten is dead-on here. "The cars take a lot of real-life inspiration" is not the same as "the cars are literally debranded real cars". The reason people criticize your lore is that it engages in flights of fancy far beyond anything the devs have ever said or implied, and yet simultaneously consists mostly of real-life brands, companies, and partnerships with new names hastily slapped over the top. Even I fell into this when I said that Civetta and Autobello might have worked together during a hard time, and in fact with a lot of my original suggestions in this thread.

Yes, Gavril, Bruckell, Civetta, and so on may bear similarities to Ford, Chevy, Ferrari, and so on, but they are not strictly Ford, Chevy, Ferrari, and so on. There's room for them to combine aspects of different manufacturers at different times, or to go their own way entirely.

 

I don't quite know about that. Any car left in a field in America will generate some sort of rust from baked-through paint exposing bare metal to rain. The Cuban car above doesn't seem to have any - it seems that as it's been repainted often, with the outer layers being baked through or simply worn through from heavy use. The only American patina I can compare it to is some of the cars in desert states, although they also form rust.

Of course, I may have gotten a photo of one outside an auto repair shop - that gray does appear to be body filler.

At the end of the day, I do like the look of that faded, baked-through outer coat though, with the white primer showing through.

 

Well, we had this...

 

Not a supercar, and not from the 80s.

 

Well Dubai wasn't even half of what it is now in the 80s, so that could be an explanation

 

the crossover nobody wanted

 

Still, a V12 Ferrari, long before the Bolide was even a thing. Polizia had quite an oddball selection of vehicles in the past, so it's not that unplausible for the Bolide to have a Polizia version.

Besides, parade cars are not that uncommon and the Bolide comes with a modern Polizia livery which wouldn't match the one in use in the '80s anyway...

 

maybe its just a reference to this? Y'know, because it was pretty well known when the bolide was added into the game and they wanted to make a fun little internet reference?


Anyways, that Cuban burnside would be kickass! Maybe with an ETK engine in it?

 

or a turbo'd hopper 4.1

 

nah nah nah
weird obscure diesel 2.8 liter four from a van that smokes like a train.

 

Is the 3-speed manual config supposed to not have a passenger-side mirror? It strikes me as kind of odd, especially since the cheaper 2-speed automatic has one, as well as all other manual-transmission configs (even the taxi).

 

the general trimming of the manual model, such as the lack of 2 tone paint, the smaller hubcaps, the more basic gearbox
(-remember, autos weren't fully widespread at this time) made me always think the manual model was meant to be the entry level trim, and the single mirror would fit with this.
for this to be true, the taxi should also not have it, but the sled and custom have a 4 speed, so they may not have been manual trims originally, or they had the mirror added aftermarket.
I wouldn't be surprised if the value of the manual and the dualmatic were simply mixed up.