Modified Nationals is one of the biggest events on the UK car show calendar, and every year it never fails to bring in all sorts of modified metal from all ‘scenes’ imaginable. For 1 weekend every year, Peterborough rings to the sound of back firing exhausts and scraping chassis’. For us, this made it the perfect show to debut Balla Approved, because as you know we love anything that looks the part, whether it’s designed to go sideways or low and slow.
As usual there were a few familiar faces in the top 25 arena and our very own Jeff Creedy’s VX220, proudly representing BA in the Acclr8 arena.
We thought we’d take this opportunity to hunt down some more cars worthy of our seal of approval and we were very pleased with our new recruits to the BA family.
This smoothed Clio may be familiar to a lot of you in its former guise, but now with a new look, some rejuvenated rims and a fresh coat of paint, Sam Coleman’s Clio was looking awesome at Mods Nats and having heard the story of how this car was turned around and the problems Sam faced bringing it back to life, we felt it was very worthy….
Looking forward to more updates from Sam in the near future.
We also spotted a very cool and original looking MK3 GTI, which has been, as owner Ash Morrell explained, inspired by the US scene. We love the nose down stance this Golf executes so well sitting on these rare Super Advans sporting a somewhat ‘different’ colour combo. And after watching Ash plough his way through the fields of the campsite, tearing up chunks of the showground as he went along, we thought he had to get our seal of approval.
Also doing the rounds at the show and campsite were 2 very cool, different generations of the SEAT Ibiza. Gavin Fox’s MK2 Ibiza looked very clean decked on Porsche Teledials and we really don’t think the pictures do this car justice….
On the same stand as Gav was Josh Codd’s Mk4 Ibiza FR, a car which has previously been approved by us and is due to have its own feature in the near future. Mods Nats was the first time Josh was showing off his new 9J rears and fully polished Borbet A’s, which we loved, and having spoken to Josh we love the sounds of his future plans for his interior and other works.
A second Golf MK3 which caught our eye this weekend was Kyle Collins’ 5 door (for more whores) which was sporting some sweet Teledials which really set the car off. Simple, yet effective….
As well as projects nearing completion, we also love those that are right in the middle of a work in progress and after spotting the huge potential behind Ben’s Astra GSi, which is soon to be sporting a fresh, and no doubt very sweet paint job in a stunning shade of purple, we felt Ben’s Astra demonstrates what Balla-Approved is all about, the have a go modifier, not afraid to tear their pride and joy to pieces on the way to building something awesome! We can’t wait for Ben to finish this one off and we’ll definitely be doing a full feature on it when it is….
As well as a load of newly approved cars at the show, we also spotted a few previously Balla-Approved cars, proudly showing of their seal of approval, around the show ground….
Micky Sneath's Euro inspired Fez was looking as awesome as ever!
Jeff's VX220 offering something different for the visitors to see in the Acclr8 arena, and Mods Nats was Jeff's first proper chance to show off his new custom front end in the flesh, and as expected, it looked awesome!
And of course, Jeff was repping Balla-Approved all weekend.
Finally, the real reason why we travel from all over the country to be at these events! If we could give her our seal of approval, we would! Maybe in the form of a tatoo, I wonder how well that would go down.....
Keep an eye out for more full features on some of the cars displayed here plus more, very soon.
Peace out for now, BA.
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