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CVD Custom Vehicle Drawings

@CustomCvd

I'm a car enthusiast that draws classic & modern cars accurately by hand. Commissions, Prints & Merchandise Available. All Car Marques Drawn. #art #carart 🏳‍🌈

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Hi all, Happy New Year. I'm pleased to announce my 'Drawing Of The Year 2025' as voted for by you is the cult classic the Lynx Eventer. Thanks to every one who participated.😊
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Adrian Clarke@adrianfclarke·
Alright, let's do this thing. My thoughts on the Neue Klasse i3. A 🧵(because I want to post more than 4 images). First of all, let's understand what we are looking at. This is the i3, which sits on the same platform as the recently released iX3 - pure EVs with their cells in the floor. This is NOT the next 3 series - not exactly. The ACTUAL next 3 series will continue to built on its current CLAR platform - but it will be extensively reskinned inside and out to resemble this car - so the i3 and the 320i will look the same but be substantially different under the skin. 1/n
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@adrianfclarke True, I just think it would look cleaner. I can't properly put my finger on it but that rear 3/4 really doesn't look right to my eyes.🤔
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Adrian Clarke@adrianfclarke·
@CustomCvd You can’t take the rear glass all the way to back because then it wouldn’t be able to drop into the door.
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@Only9built Not being funny but once the proper middle class takes a hiding the maybe the system will change because for the working class this has been the reality since 2008.🤔
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Electric Blue⚡️💙
Yep. All of this. TBF it been clear for years that the structure was rotten. AI just kicked the door and the roof is caving in. Good luck to anyone who thought downsizing their property would pay their pension. Brutal.
SightBringer@_The_Prophet__

⚡️The professional middle is entering a slow liquidation. That is what is coming. A lot of six figure workers still think they own scarce cognition. They do not. What they actually own is a seat inside an organizational diagram that is about to be rewritten. For twenty years, companies paid armies of people to summarize, coordinate, package, analyze, report, reassure, sell, recruit, and administratively maintain complexity. AI is about to reveal how much of that layer was never true scarcity. It was overhead wearing prestige. That is why this gets dangerous. The people in that layer built expensive lives around the illusion that their salaries were durable. Big mortgages. daycare. two income households. private schools. lifestyle debt. identity fused to title. So when the compression starts, it does not feel like a normal labor shock. It feels like your class position is being revoked. A person loses the job and suddenly realizes the house was never a fortress. It was a fixed-cost trap financed by continuity. The next 12 to 18 months are likely to be ugly because companies have finally been handed a believable excuse to thin the white collar herd. They can say AI. They can say efficiency. They can say macro caution. They can say market conditions. The language does not matter. The result does. Fewer seats. Longer hiring cycles. More ghosting. Lower offers. Higher bars. More people with impressive resumes chasing jobs beneath prior status. The market will keep telling itself this is temporary. A lot of it is structural. And the cruelest part is that this probably will not arrive as one cinematic crash. It will arrive as social downgrading. The title gets softer. The comp gets cut. The search takes longer. The savings get chewed through. The role accepted is smaller than the last one. The family says it is fine. The person knows something has broken. That kind of decline is much more psychologically destructive than one violent break because it makes people live inside the decay of their own ranking. Housing is where this becomes visible. The professional class was supposed to be the stable bid under the market. If enough of them lose income security while carrying large mortgages, the house stops being optionality and becomes a restraint device. People stop moving. Listings freeze. Spending contracts. Families become geographically trapped because leaving means crystallizing loss or taking a much worse payment elsewhere. The labor shock and the housing shock start feeding each other. Society is about to discover how much of the tax base, consumption base, and institutional calm sat on a white collar class whose value was inflated by a pre-AI information economy. That class thought it had made it because it was paid well. A lot of them were just being temporarily overcompensated to keep the administrative machine running. When the machine needs fewer humans, the paycheck premium gets repriced hard. Bottom line: A lot of six figure jobs are going away. A lot of the people in them will not get equivalent replacements. The pain will concentrate in the salaried professional class with high fixed costs and no ownership cushion. The official data will lag the lived reality. The social mood will get darker long before the statistics fully admit why. The real truth is simple: The next phase is the collapse of professional security. The middle is about to learn that income is not the same thing as safety.

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@adrianfclarke I think if I'd have designed it I'd have took the rear door glass all the way to the black plastic. Slightly softened the top line, straightened the window divider & I would have taken the rearmost shutline straight through the wheelarch. I think it would remove some fussiness.🤔
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Adrian Clarke@adrianfclarke·
@CustomCvd There is legislation that dictates things like openings and making sure passengers can ingress and egress easily, but that’s the remit of the closures team (engineers).
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Hi all, don't forget to check out today's new drawing as this place still doesn't like me.🙄
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@adrianfclarke What I meant about the size of the door is at the waistline it's fine but it tapers quite badly towards the bottom. I'm thinking when you open the door there isn't going to be much entry room especially when you think how the rear bottom seat squab will eat into said space.🤔
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Adrian Clarke@adrianfclarke·
I think the door aperture is fine, but glass drop guide and fixed glazing is a bit of a mess (specifically driven by the need to make sure the glass CAN drop). And the fake Hofmeister Kink grates a bit. I might do another thread over the weekend on the other bits that are problematic.
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@lessismoremike I've got a good name for it. How about; The How Many Of These Are We Going To Have Before We Learn Our Lesson Depression.😉😂😂😂
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WRCPAST@WRCPAST·
**Rare Road Cars** 🇫🇷 1973 Citroen SM 2.7L 78 Licensed and 42 SORN The 1973 Citroën SM is a grand tourer that blended French Citroën's avant-garde technology with Italian Maserati engineering. Produced between 1970 and 1975, the 1973 model year represents a significant point in the SM's production, as it introduced electronic fuel injection (EFI) for European models, designed to address performance and fuel economy needs.  Engine: 90-degree V6, double overhead cams, 2.7 liters (2,670 cc), Type C114-1. Fueling: Initially equipped with three Weber 42 DCNF2 carburetors, later available with Bosch D-Jetronic electronic fuel injection. Power: 170 hp (carbureted) or 178 hp (injection). Transmission: 5-speed manual (most common) or a 3-speed Borg-Warner automatic (introduced 1974). Suspension: Hydropneumatic self-leveling system (similar to the DS). Steering: DIRAVI speed-sensitive power steering, known for self-centering. Design: Aerodynamic body by Robert Opron, featuring six halogen headlights (inner lights turn with steering) This car was spotted near Tufnell Park London. Absolutely stunning car. 🇫🇷 ❤️ 📷 Steven Morrow 👏🏻👏🏻 @Citroen #cars #classiccars #carporn
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@MotoNutJob You'll have to keep an eye out in a few weeks cos that's on my drawing list in my current drawing series The lost art of the mainstream luxo-barge. I didn't realise until sorting my list that this was their flagship from 72 when they axed the cresta until the carlton/royale.🤔
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@CaravanningLife That's a brilliant pic, there's something about early colour photography that gives the image an extra warmth/atmosphere missing from modern photos.🤔
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Caravanning Life@CaravanningLife·
Cavalier 260S and Austin Healey Sprite
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Lewis Kingston@theseoldcars·
Oh, nice, a Citroë— WAIT, THAT'S NOT A DIESEL C6! carandclassic.com/l/C2030833 I haven't seen one of these V6 petrol C6s for ages. Can't be more than a handful in the UK. (At a glance, it looks like there were only ~30 registered here when new!) #Citroen #CitroenC6 #C6
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@adrianfclarke I totally agree about the front wheel & you're the professional so I'll defer to your expertise but am I the only 1 that thinks the wheelbase needs a bit more length in the rear. The rear door glass looks weirdly truncated & the door looks quite short.
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Adrian Clarke@adrianfclarke·
So if you've been thinking you like the i3 but there's something about it you couldn't quite put your finger one, this might be one reason. A few caveats - you always need to see cars in the metal to understand them properly. In real life you never look at a car like this. All these images were taken from the BMW media site, but were all different cameras, locations, angles etc (the G20 in particular is very low to the ground, and the i3 images are probably renders done in VRED) but for our purposes here will suffice. 🧵FIN
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Hi all, as you know I grew up in very unusual circumstances in a family heavily involved in the underworld . You also know I walked away from that life a long time ago but most people don't understand is you never truly escape it. One of my cousins same age has been found dead.😔
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