Classics and customizing

This is a rant, so consider yourself warned.

On the whole, I have nothing against street rods, lowriders, and other customized vehicles: they're practical works of art and engineering combined, after a fashion. But if you're going to do that to a vehicle, especially one from the High Classic era (the mid '30s to World War II), go after a Ford, or if you must, a Chevy or Plymouth. Those Fords are a dime a dozen: you've seen one and you've seen them all.

But anyone who does that to a REAL classic--and I mean a Cadillac or Lincoln for starters--is a total ass who doesn't appreciate a classic car. And anyone who does that to a discontinued make--say, LaSalle, DeSoto, Packard, or Hudson--deserves to be beaten within an inch of his life with a tire iron. Not only are they destroying a classic, they're destroying irreplacable automotive history.

I've seen a few of these travesties on eBay--classic era Cadillacs and LaSalles tricked out--and I've made a point of calling out the perpetrators and telling them exactly what crimes they've committed in no uncertain terms. And I'll continue to do so. Go pervert a Ford all you like--that's about all the blue oval is good for--but leave the real classics alone unless you're going to restore them properly so they're in the same condition as when they rolled out of the showroom.

well said my friend! well said!

so I take it you would have a problem with my drag car? it's a back-halfed, big block 1968 El Camino,...custom interior, custom engine compartment, it's been tubbed, tubed and chassied. I don't see the problem.

It's an el camino, He's wooried about nice classics! there's a ton of el caminos

also kittie do you do bracket racing with your el camino?

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Originally posted by bachiotomy

It's an el camino, He's wooried about nice classics! there's a ton of el caminos

also kittie do you do bracket racing with your el camino?

Exactly: I have no problem with a tricked-out El Camino from the LBJ era; they're not exactly rare by a long shot. But if you'd done the same thing to, say, a '38 Hupmobile, I'd have a major problem. Do whatever you like to latter-day vehicles, but leave the true classics alone.

amen to that!

:: bangs fist on the table ::

Amen

I think you would have hated that Monster Garage episode where Jesse gets a crew to turn a 1969 Rolls Royce into a Porta-Potty pumper/cleaner. heh.