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"Road Bee"???
Hey guys,
Help me understand why the "Road Bee" is so special as to deserve a cover and a feature article in the latest CC? I normally LOVE everything Steve Strope does, but this car leaves me scratchin' my head.
He usually comes up with a concept for a build and then does everything possible to hold true to the concept throughout the entire car. This one seems to fall short of that. The concept was two-fold, marry the doghouse of one car seamlessly to another. Check +! Then re-create the look of an 80-90s street machine. Half-check. I feel he came up short on staying true to the 80s street machine theme. He definitely scores major retro points with the Auto-Drags (where does one find 16x9.5s anyway?!?), but why aren't they wrapped in period-correct white-letter BFGs?
Every time I get a chance to lay my eyes on a new Steve Strope build, I race to the engine bay pics, fully expecting to be wowed by yet another clean and creative compartment. But this bay doesn't look much better than the average Joe's. If "80s Street Machine" was the theme, there's so flourishes absent (Moroso wires/cap, anodized valve covers, etc.) But if the goal was just straight-up clean Pure Vision-ism, then even that falls short. There's the trademark coolant overflow hard line (always love that), but there's so much mixing of disparate parts, I can't figure what happened here. The Moroso stuff is there, but so is a billet accesory drive, black anodized fittings and that God-awful battery front and center!
What am I missing? Yes, it's an amazing street machine in it's own right. But I feel this is the first time Steve didn't hold true to a pure vision for this one.
Help me understand why the "Road Bee" is so special as to deserve a cover and a feature article in the latest CC? I normally LOVE everything Steve Strope does, but this car leaves me scratchin' my head.
He usually comes up with a concept for a build and then does everything possible to hold true to the concept throughout the entire car. This one seems to fall short of that. The concept was two-fold, marry the doghouse of one car seamlessly to another. Check +! Then re-create the look of an 80-90s street machine. Half-check. I feel he came up short on staying true to the 80s street machine theme. He definitely scores major retro points with the Auto-Drags (where does one find 16x9.5s anyway?!?), but why aren't they wrapped in period-correct white-letter BFGs?
Every time I get a chance to lay my eyes on a new Steve Strope build, I race to the engine bay pics, fully expecting to be wowed by yet another clean and creative compartment. But this bay doesn't look much better than the average Joe's. If "80s Street Machine" was the theme, there's so flourishes absent (Moroso wires/cap, anodized valve covers, etc.) But if the goal was just straight-up clean Pure Vision-ism, then even that falls short. There's the trademark coolant overflow hard line (always love that), but there's so much mixing of disparate parts, I can't figure what happened here. The Moroso stuff is there, but so is a billet accesory drive, black anodized fittings and that God-awful battery front and center!
What am I missing? Yes, it's an amazing street machine in it's own right. But I feel this is the first time Steve didn't hold true to a pure vision for this one.
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