what happened to this idea?

[rhino1]

I am new to this project. Have been a fan of FFR for a few years now and was logging in to look at either a daytona coupe or a cobra and saw this idea. what happened with this model?
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e203/jrm747/factory-five-818-spo-7_460x0w.jpg
Again, I am just getting up to speed, so dont flame me too hard.

[VTX]

I don't know, but it looks pretty darn nice to me. I would love to drive that.

[skullandbones]

I don't remember seeing it either. Is it a production car or a model? I would be interested to see how the door opens with that panel configuration. Maybe it's like a Chinese puzzle box. Do you have any more pics? Thanks, WEK.

[kach22i]

It is a nice design, none of the "camps" in the forum adopted it. At the time many people were cheering loudly for "X's" design (3rd place).

There was an attempt by one member to compare it to an existing car in production, however I recall the color being the only common feature.

It's nice, just did not catch anybody's hair on fire.

I think it fits the template if that helps.

Beats the pants off of Model-4 (Jim's effort), at least in the last version posted in the forum.

[rhino1]

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e203/jrm747/nouphone2-1308238609.jpg
wasnt this the design that won the FFR design contest? Nouphone Bansasi. i was thinking this was what it was going to look like. was planning on building it for a demo for my paint shop.

[Xusia]

I think a common misconception was that the winning design is what would be used. That's not the case (but to be fair, FFR wasn't very clear about that). FFR seemingly used the contest to get some original design ideas. What the final body will look like, we don't yet know...

[PhyrraM]

I think a common misconception was that the winning design is what would be used. That's not the case (but to be fair, FFR wasn't very clear about that). FFR seemingly used the contest to get some original design ideas. What the final body will look like, we don't yet know...

Can't speak for others, but to to me Dave's comments were very clear that it was inspiration they were after and that the winner wasn't a sure-fire descion.

I do think that the quality of the submissions turned out to be way higher than expected, with many of the designs seemingly "production ready". This, in turn, mislead many of us (even some at FFR?) to think that a car might be picked and used "as-is".

[rhino1]

gotcha, well dang!! i guess i will wait it out. always got the daytona as a fall back

[kach22i]

I do think that the quality of the submissions turned out to be way higher than expected, with many of the designs seemingly "production ready". This, in turn, mislead many of us (even some at FFR?) to think that a car might be picked and used "as-is".
This may be true in many cases, I know that I was truly impressed. However, the traditional vetting process of tossing out non-compliant designs prior to judging was not done. This lead to all sorts of misconceptions of what could, and could not be built, a frustrating experience for some.

I do know of several architectural design competitions where the instructions said; place your building here, in this corner of the site (indicated with dotted lines). Only to have two of the three top winners placing and re-orientating their buildings elsewhere on the site. If the rules are broken - then fix them seems to be the lesson here.

The approximate 3" lowering of roof line found in many of the FFR 818 contest submissions at this point of retrospect, may be considered in the same spirit of "fixing it" which I pointed out in the architectural design competition example above.

Personally, I follow the motto; if it's not broke, don't fix it. But then again, perhaps I'm just an old fuddy duddy.:cool: