1953 Burnside Special

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already DM on of the Vehicle developers on Instagram about it, and he loved the idea.

 

Oh nice going, wouldn't mind having open rear wheel wells on an otherwise stock Special a la Buick style

 

good news, the car now has a floorshifter.

 

Probably Jared? He's very enthusiastic about all the stuff

 

Yep

 

now thats someone that understands when cars were built to not just last the warranty

 

BTW i made a thread specificly for Burnside Revamp Ideas
https://www.beamng.com/threads/burnside-revamp.88153/#post-1500392

 

Along with Gabester

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The Burnside’s proportions are off. It would be better if it just had the model years adjusted like 1 year earlier

 

in what way are the proportions off? dimensionally, it seems perfectly well in line with a 49-53 olds 88:

and while we're here, here's a dodge coronet, which seems even more accurate:

 

I always thought it seemed too tall

 

I concur, it seems to actually be too large, as if someone had got the model then scaled it to 1.5 of its original size (or thereabouts), hence why why the car is on its own with no buildings or vehicles around for reference for size it looks fine, then suddenly you put a Bluebuck next too it and suddenly it looks absolutely enormous

 

Makes sense since the vehicles design is actually based off of the 53-54 DeSoto Firedome

 

Yeah a lot of vehicles in beam have some odd dimensions, especially the ones like this that have yet to be remastered. I guess this is a good time to remind everyone to first look up the dimensions (LxWxH and Wheelbase) of the type of vehicle (as well as restrictions, for example Japan's 1700mm width limit for under 2liter cars) you want to make before modeling

 

I just want to say that you mentioned that the 200BX was 1.74m wide a while back, based upon my measurement data I took like, 2-3 years ago. My measurements at the time were slightly inaccurate, and I measured the 200BX's width with the widebody kit on. A stock 200BX is 1.67m wide - perfectly acceptable for what it's meant to be.

In fact, the only Japanese cars which exceed the 1.7m width limit in stock base configuration are the SBR4 (1.8m wide) and the '96 Pessima (1.78m wide) - both of which have factory engines larger than 2.0L. Everything else is under 1.7m - however, the Pigeon is just a tiny bit too long to fit into the period kei car regulations, at 3.28m long. It's perfectly fine width-wise, though (1.34m for a base version, and I'm assuming around 1.4m for a Plus). The Wigeon's very short, at just 2.77m long, but it's a lot wider than the Pigeon, at 1.5m wide.

 

I know this is kinda a nitpick, but the Burnside's hood release shouldn't be on the interior from my knowledge. A lot of old cars (up to the mid 70s) had them under the front bumper or in the grille, so I feel it should be somewhere there, unless the Burnside has an interior hood release, making it one of possibly very few 50s cars to have it

 

Yes, a lot of cars had rushed hood openings, most of them don’t have a mesh or anything to indicate where the hood latch is

 

Not to be nitpicky here but for some reason the carpet in the burnside has a gray texture similar to a moving blanket instead of the carpet matching the exterior color was this change intentional or something accidental?

 

(Bump) The engine sounds of this thing, along with the Bluebuck, Barstow and Moonhawk are absolutely atrocious and really bad. These should not sound like modern V8s we need a throaty 50s to 70s style growl for these things

 

Yeah, I'd love to hear this on the Barstow and/or Moonhawk.

 

Currently I think there are only 2 different v8 engines, modern and less modern, I think even the grand marshall should sound different, it should be louder.