GTP Gran Turismo 4 Vintage Tuner Cup
All right gentlemen (and any ladies that may show up), with Kent's blessing to use this thread for the challenge, it's time to start buckling down. Wrench every single horse and pound-foot you can out of those decades-old motors and prepare to lay down some rubber!
Tune a classic, using whatever means at your disposal short of altering the game itself. If you use Nitrous, the Track Gods will frown and smite you from the face of the earth.
You may enter ONE car in each of the following divisions. The car must be a ROAD car - no racecars or "resto-mods" - this means the Buick Special is out. The road car divisions allow S3 compound tires and harder only -- no race tires, except in the Classic Club Racers category.
Phase 1:
1963 and earlier - the REAL classics
1964-1972 - pre-Oil Crisis - the era where displacement was king
Phase 2:
1973-1980 - OIL EMBARGO! Clever engineering trumps raw power
1981-1988 - Modern Classics that presage the cars of today
Classic Club Racers - any ROAD car 1980 or earlier on R1 or R2 tires
If all goes well, we may even add a "Pure Race" category at the end of the competition to wrap things up.
Present your car when we announce that its division is accepting entrants. The divisions will be broken up to allow more concentration of judging - we're first holding the Pre-'63 and '64-'73 divisions, having them judged, then the rest of the divisions will begin. Be as creative (or as dull) with the layout of your submission as you like, but BE DETAILED - include EVERYTHING that needs to be done to the car, including desired tire compound, gearing, oil changes, etc. If your car is obscure or hard to acquire, it would be helpful to include the means to get it in your submission. Include the car's power, torque, weight, and in-game WPR (all figures from the garage menu) in your post, so judges may verify that they have built the car correctly. Make sure to perform a good all-around tuning, as you'll have no control over what track the judges will test the car on. You may suggest an ideal track in your submission, but the judges need not follow it. Title your submission "Vintage Tuner Cup Entry; (division)" - i.e. "Vintage Tuner Cup Entry; 1963 and Earlier"
Anyone may judge. All that a judge MUST do is test every car in the division he is judging, EXACTLY as specified by its builder. He may test it on any track(s) he choses, but must submit best-lap-times on at least one track. Additionally, he must provide some information regarding his impression of the car's overall feel. He will score each car out of 100 possible points. The criteria is NOT outright speed, but as stated above, the overall feel of the car - its handling characteristics, how much the tuner has improved it over stock, AND speed, relative to its WPR.
Now get to building, and let's find out what brilliant machines will see the light of day!
NOW SOLICITING JUDGING FOR PHASE TWO. DEADLINE FOR JUDGING IS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, AT 11:59 PM U.S. EASTERN TIME!