914 custom turn signals Options

[74forsche]

So I need some real feedback. I have recently posted my son and my first product on the for sale section here. I own my 3rd 914 which I rescued from a lot in Georgia several years ago. I am in the process of restomodding it. Given it was a dead car it was perfect for me to modify. My first realization was it needed much better lighting. Which sent us down the road of 3 d printing parts. If I could get some feed back regarding our front turn signals i would appreciate it...I only got one response which I feel was more focused on professional pictures and presentation. Again I dont have the resources to make a big glossy website. This is an honest venture and we aim to make several parts for the 914 in the future. Check it out and please give me usable criticism.

[Optimusglen]

I'll give you some feedback, but I don't think you're going to like it. I am a mechanical and industrial designer, I've brought one of my automotive designs to the market with success (the Viceroy Steering wheel) and am navigating further design projects (fender flares) That to say, I'm not just some schmuck on the internet.

The aesthetic design of both the turn signals and the side markers are not good. Now, sure, there will be a few who DO like them, in the same way that there are a few who really like barbed wire tattoos, or skull and cross-bones chrome-plated license plate frames from Pep-Boys. If you want to target that market you're welcome to, but generally the Porsche crowd (even the frugal and sometimes outcast 914 crowd) aim a bit higher.

The restomod game has a very narrow, winding, and tricky path especially if you're aiming to bring a modern twist. The guys that do it well have been training and practicing their craft for years and years and years. Most fail. Even some who went to college and studied design at the top design schools in the world fail at restomods.

That's not to say that you have to have a decade of industrial design schooling to make anything, but in my opinion, without a decade or two of deep design study, it's hard to see what's good and what's bad in your own designs. I've often said that design is a muscle, a person can learn to do it well, but it takes a lot of practice and exercise. Critically looking at a product and breaking down the features, how surfaces interact with each other, and on and on. So don't loose hope. I'd say go back to the drawing board, seek input on designs before you go too far with them.