Keep it stock, or make it your own?
What year was this pic taken?
JW
1987 and between both cars, I had 5 or 6k into total
The green 71 340 Challenger was my mother's car, paid 2k for that car and did nothing but keep it up and clean ( and stock)
Sold it for 28k to a guy in Texas five years ago.
I went through allot of 340 cars, I would pick em up and undo what some dude thought was cool to get em stock as I could for the cheep and sale em always for profit.
What's cool today is silly tomorrow.
But like I told the guy from Texas "your destroying the whole hobby"
Now pffft it's really just a money game.
A game I refuse to play.
So I'm finishing my numbers match everything 69 340 cuda convertible, drive it for a few years and let a rich boy have another toy . SMH it's all upside down man .
If I wanted some rat rod missmatch parts compilation .I'd get something somebody already put together, cause he spent all his money and I know for a fact I can get it for roughly half of what he put into it, drive it to death, and get another one.
Not a prayer I'm spending coin on a newer restoration project.
I mean 99% of the money boys just throw their wallet at somebody else to do the work they can't do .
Can you rebuild a newer hemi engine?
Wire it? Lol change the oil even?
Cracks me up.
Oh well boys and their toys will always be what it is.
All work I've done myself on all cars I've ever had.
Simple easy fun and used to be cheap until it became cool to pick one up and look cool.
I usually laugh shake my head and go back to work in the garage .
Ok I think I might have crossed a line a little.
For that I apologize for my passion of classic American muscle cars.
To many years I removed crap from cars just to make them civilized.
The things people do to cars still amazes me.
And I'm old School, if u didn't build it, just threw your wallet at it.
I can never have respect for you as a man.
Oh well it's a new world with computers telling us what we need to do is shameful but it's were we're at .
The new challenges really get me laughing, I'd dig driving one hard for a day or two.
But no way I'd want one.
Engineer's design cars so you almost have to take it to the dealership for a oil change.
They can make it simple, well at least doable.
But their boss tells em the money is in dealership maintenance and repair.
They should give them away for the amount of money it's going to cost u in five years .
Lol.
Then let's look ahead ten fifteen years.
Now u have a car that definitely needs work that most people will never spend to repair them.
Then what?
I see a **** ton of cars, nice fast good handling cars that really aren't worth what it's going to cost just in upkeep.
No my brothers, very very few of the new computer cars being able to hold it's value .
After 100,000 miles or so, the maintenance costs will not justify the end product .
So in conclusion.
Buy old school cool cars that will continue to climb in value as the new cars depreciate at a incredibly fast rate .
And for the love of God keep them stock/original . It's always been where the money is .
Peace .
