I am not a fan, but everyone complaining about someone doing something to THEIR car.
Remember the model A's. I know the model A purists hate the hot rod, rat rod movement. As that generation dies off the model A transforms. Be glad someone still wants your old pile of 70s scrap metal and turns it into a "hot rod"
Yeah it could be scrap metal instead. It's still rolling, although nothing as was originally designed. But as you say, it's their car. It's still fugly and nothing changes that.