Every year we see different car modifications and things within the car modification community become more or less popular.  Here are our predictions for 2008.

On The Up:

Retro Tourism - Heading across countries and continents for shows, experiences and new friends is one of the best things you can do with your time, make sure you get out there and do it.

White Cars - Big news in the VW watercooled scene this year, will it bleed over to the retro scene, only time will tell.

Actually Buying Japanese Cars - People have been admiring Japanese cars more and more of the past few years, this year people are actually buying them!

Retro Focussed Publications - With Retro Scene Mag finally here and at least one other publication in the works the scene finally returns to having regular coverage.

Body Coloured Rims - Floating around as part of the top end modifiers pallette of ideas for a while, adds instant appeal for not huge outlay.


Going down

VW Split Screen Campers - They will always be cool, but have now firmly lodged themselves out of a lot of peoples justifiable price range. Bring on the HiAce revolution.

Boring Wheels On Fords - Begone Minilite and Revolution 4 spoke, welcome a more eclectic selection of wheels, please.

Ebay Bargains - Now everyone and their dog is on ebay the bargains are drying up, obscure search terms and even mis-listed items are always being watched like a hawk.

Rained Off Car Shows - Here in the UK last summer was a total wash out. This year it will be different. We hope!

False Rat Look - No styles every truely die, they just go out of fashion, there are still great rat look cars around and there are more to come. However it is all over for just matt blacking your car, adding stickers, a roof rack and calling it rat look.

We'll have to see at the end of the year what we got right, and what we got wrong.