Keep it stock, or make it your own?

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Agree just take the time needed to do it right.
And a wallet full of cash, lol.
I saw one guy be honest with what it cost him to restore.
120k later he had a car he couldn't sale for more than 30-40k .
Your money your way, and say goodbye to half the coin it took to make it.
I baught a 71 340 Challenger for 2k sold it for 28k to a guy in Texas.
I'm sure I've never invested more than 5 - 6k on any car.
But that was before money controlled people, people used to control their money. Now it's upside down.
Drive em like you stole it.
Here is where I worked and two of my cars in the parking lot ..
Peace
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And a wallet full of cash, lol.
I saw one guy be honest with what it cost him to restore.
120k later he had a car he couldn't sale for more than 30-40k .
Your money your way, and say goodbye to half the coin it took to make it.
I baught a 71 340 Challenger for 2k sold it for 28k to a guy in Texas.
I'm sure I've never invested more than 5 - 6k on any car.
But that was before money controlled people, people used to control their money. Now it's upside down.
Drive em like you stole it.
Here is where I worked and two of my cars in the parking lot ..
Peace
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Man that's funny .
I was a pump jockey at my buddies Union 76 gas station
I'd work on my cars when it was slow which was most of the time .
FYI I never have not ever will buy somebody else's idea of cool .
What's cool to me, u might hate .
But if their mostly stock everyone wants it.
Peace
 
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And a wallet full of cash, lol.
I saw one guy be honest with what it cost him to restore.
120k later he had a car he couldn't sale for more than 30-40k .
Your money your way, and say goodbye to half the coin it took to make it.
I baught a 71 340 Challenger for 2k sold it for 28k to a guy in Texas.
I'm sure I've never invested more than 5 - 6k on any car.
But that was before money controlled people, people used to control their money. Now it's upside down.
Drive em like you stole it.
Here is where I worked and two of my cars in the parking lot ..
PeaceView attachment 1715281738

What year was this pic taken?

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What year was this pic taken?

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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 .
 
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 .
Nope. Because for me it was never about money...it was for the love of the car.

And I will always do what I want to it...because it’s mine.
 
I have only been a member of this forum for a little over a year, but I've noticed that there seems to be more "keep it all stock, all original" guys here than in other forums I participate in. (Except for maybe the Corvette forum, there are some seriously fanatical "keep it stock" guys over there.)
I have never owned a vehicle (car, truck, motorcycle, snowmobile) that I did not modify in some way to make it better suited to me or to do what I wanted from it, better. I'm firmly in the "not-stock" group, and I have been my whole life.
I know there are some rare "numbers matching" low production cars that need to be kept as original as possible to maintain value, but collector cars aside, what would some of the reasons be to keep something pretty common all original?
Don't get me wrong, I have no issues with anyone who prefers a 100% stock original vehicle, and I can appreciate the effort it takes to maintain it that way. It just seems strange to me, and I'm trying to understand the appeal, not cause an argument.

Unless it's a #1 car, which there are VERY few of in reality, I say make it your own. They are only original once, and as old as these cars are now, most AIN'T original anymore.
 
Unless it's a #1 car, which there are VERY few of in reality, I say make it your own. They are only original once, and as old as these cars are now, most AIN'T original anymore.
I'm with you . Trust me, I'd love to upgrade pleepl of options on my cuda .
But everything I've checked is correct.
Wheels, dist,carb, radiator,eng engine and transmission of course .
I'm pretty sure it's the original exhaust system, the manifolds of course but the muffler's, shocks .
They have to go because of pure age .
And it's still inly a type two cuda. So no matter what, I ain't getting rich of it
So somplsome in-between
 
Grrrrrr. Lol
Some place in between lays a line that changes to the individual who owns the car.
I'm just in the in the mind set that of it looks factory correct, it's desirable to more people .
And I've lived that philosophy since I was 20 years old .
So I removed bullshit stereos people cut up the dssh to install a piece if crap radio
And if course cutting doors for stupid speakers etc.
I've never liked custom cars .
It's only to please one person .
And I've drug home way to many cars up and down the west coast and rebuilt them
I'm responsible for at least 6 cars that would be crushed and made into soup csbs if not for my diligence in correct concourse cars.
It actually hurts to see somebody destroy a car on a whim that comes and goes like the seasons .
I hope I'm not being an asshole trying to explain my experience and efforts towards the whole keep em on the road.
Make them wanted so there always taken care of.
Peace
 
Nope. Because for me it was never about money...it was for the love of the car.

And I will always do what I want to it...because it’s mine.
Lol very humanatorian of you to think of your car being crushed and turned in to soup cans .
I drug more type two cudas up and down the west coast.
I personally an responsible for at least five or six cars still being cared for and loved for years to come .
Long after your soup can is opened and tossed like the garage it is.
U'll get it sometime somehow .
Eh well what do I care what you destroy, it's ur money big boy
Peace
 
Lol very humanatorian of you to think of your car being crushed and turned in to soup cans .
I drug more type two cudas up and down the west coast.
I personally an responsible for at least five or six cars still being cared for and loved for years to come .
Long after your soup can is opened and tossed like the garage it is.
U'll get it sometime somehow .
Eh well what do I care what you destroy, it's ur money big boy
Peace
Bullshit. My car will go to my daughter that loves it and be in our pretty family for the next 40 years. And I really don’t care if it becomes a soup can after my family has enjoyed it for more than 60 years.

And yeah, it’s my money to do with as I please little boy.

Your opinion makes zero difference to me.
 
Yeah wow amazing never seen anything like that before .
Woopity dipity man.
It's your money your car go be alone with it and be happy in your mind .
Because that's how you want it . Silly kids.

Say what? There's something wrong with you man.
 
Your killing me RRR!!! I got tears coming out of my eyes!


It must be tears from looking at my debotcherized non stock pile of **** tin can, chicken of the sea. Lol

On a serious note, thank you for the compliment.

A custom car is not meant to please one person. It is intended to inspire others. It’s Designed to bring joy. It’s meant to combine art, form and function. It’s meant to reinvent the wheel. It’s designed to teach. And most of all……it’s designed to preserve what was once thrown away.
 
My ‘65 is a basket case. I will not be returing it to original,as it isnt worth the time or money. Had i not grabbed it, it would be soup cans by now.
It is going to be driven,and good from far/far from good and i really dont care what a purist thinks.
Take a factory original car,turn one bolt. It is no longer factory original. So purist all you want,
I support the hobby and really appreciate what an imaginative mind can do,moreso if its done with their own two hands.

Its an art form in thy own eyes.
 
It must be tears from looking at my debotcherized non stock pile of **** tin can, chicken of the sea. Lol

On a serious note, thank you for the compliment.

A custom car is not meant to please one person. It is intended to inspire others. It’s Designed to bring joy. It’s meant to combine art, form and function. It’s meant to reinvent the wheel. It’s designed to teach. And most of all……it’s designed to preserve what was once thrown away.

I know, right? What a total POS. I bet it won't pull a greasy string outta a cat's ***. lol
 
Did a Resto mod before. Now doing something more period correct. Humble /6 beginnings but I can never leave anything alone. Always get the itch to change things up especially since it’s not rare Mopar.

Btw. Who let the fuckin TROLL (MG) in yesterday? Go back to Moparts.
 
Touché sir. Lol. Maybe your ok. Lol

But we’re more alike than you think my friend.

The car pictured above was my first car. I bought it as a rusty pile **** at a ford dealership for $687. Lol

I built the entire car myself (with help from many friends, it takes a village ya know) from a rusty pile that nobody wanted, into not only an automobile that many people seem quite fond of, but also a learning tool, and a source of inspiration for many young hot rodders, my son included.

So you keep “saving cars”.

I’ll keep saving cars, and the future of our hobby.

My big old ***. Saving cars and LIVES my friend. You have your son pointed in the right direction now and he's unlikely to veer off course.
 
My car since I was 15, 56 years old today, my money, my way, changed the 67 fastback at least 4 times over the last 40 years, now it's just about the way I like it. I don't care about money and I don't care about anyone's opinion.
Opinions are like aholes, everyones got one ! lol if you get my drift.
 
GTFO!!! F....g guy posts cheesy pictures from the 80s. What a douche. Many of us on this site can DO IT ALL. Weld, fabricate, paint, bodywork, machine etc. Some choose to build what they like. Some assholes like you prefer to copy the factory which is pretty ******* easy to do. Roadmap already laid out for you. Geezers like you need to f.....g die off and take your puss (yes the virulent slime oozing from your gangrenous mind) and vinegar with you. RIP motherf.....r.

When did you last show at the concours d’elegance or receive a Riddler award.....uh NEVER is my bet. Poser.

Peace out chump.

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