SkidMark
Active Member
It's your car and you can do with it what you like....however, just because you spend 100k heavily modifying your car, doesn't mean it is now worth 100k more than an original. I'll take the original any day.
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I see your point and agree to some extent. If it's a rare or desirable car such as a Mach 1 or a GT with lots of options, maybe original is the way to go, but if it's a run of the mill C code with little to no options, a well modified car will be worth many times more than if it were restored to original. Maybe not what you spent on it but more than original. What the baby boomers want is a car that "looks" like a 60's muscle car but with overdrive, AC, modern sound system, etc. etc. and that's what sells. Again unless it's a rare K code or R code or Shelby. Nobody is going to pay $30K for a a C code 67 coupe with no AC, no deluxe interior, etc. And it will cost more to make it original than build a nicely modified coupe. And even the "original" cars are often "modified" by adding options that weren't factory installed or updating the drum brakes to disc, etc. Not many people actually want an all original car with skinny bias ply tires and drum brakes with a three speed and a 2V carb, single exhaust...It's your car and you can do with it what you like....however, just because you spend 100k heavily modifying your car, doesn't mean it is now worth 100k more than an original. I'll take the original any day.
Just sold at barrett Jacksonwell, "Mustang" people seem to hate "Eleanor" so I certainly don't give a hoot about what others think. It's my car. After I'm gone someone can make it how they like or not. It won't matter to me anymore!
I do like Mustangs so I agree, tasteless mods and poor workmanship are no good but again, taste is a matter of opinion. On the other Forums I get the hatred and nasty commenst about body kits and copying someone else and all that but you know, Shelby put on a "body kit" and how many Shelby clones are there!?! So that being said, I agree with your logic but again it's your car. Do what makes you happy. My car was a worthless rusted out 1 of 300,000+ coupes. It would have been squashed if I did't save it. So anything goes!
With all that being said, I really haven't done things that couldn't be undone but I but I can't imagine any scenario where a stock 67 coupe would be more appealing (to me).
I get so many thumbs up, people trying to take pictures while I am driving, crowds gather at the gas station or anywhere for that matter. I drove it to the hardware store two days ago and EVERYONE came out of the store to look at it. So "people" like it too, maybe not Mustang People but everyone else! But I did what I wanted to do and what I liked so if nobody else liked it I still would.
But I must admit I have seen modified cars that almost make we want to barf. Still, it's their car.
One of my favorite cars I have seen was a 69/70 blend with a mid engine. It was radical but so cool. Certainly modified beyond ever going back but way too cool.
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Niiiice! Could have used some of those fur dingle balls and maybe a garter around the tach. Great craftsmanship though.
Hopefully they are more adept at using its full potential out on the track.I built my car for the next owner.
I have a friend who owns a C5 Corvette convertible. It is a triple black car and, for reasons that completely escape me, he decided to put Lambo doors on the car. He had it at a summer show just after doing the doors and he had them open for display with the windows up. Sunlight when passed through the window's curvature and the curvature of the windshield, created a magnifying glass effect that burned a hole in his dash.Lambo doors are sooooooo played out they don't even put them on Lamborghini's anymore . . .
when building a car, any car, one needs to decide first on what direction the car should take. make a plan and stick with it.
When I bought my '69 vert I promptly started doing things to improve the performance, completely overlooking that fact that the car had four wheel manual drum brakes. After a close call in merging freeway traffic, my wife told me not to do another thing to the car until I made it stop better. She changed my direction and the next mod was a set of '72 front discs.