Is anyone else "touchy" about their Mopar? (long rant...)

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If you are proud of it and want to show it, that's all that matters. I take my car to shows for people that want to see it. And the rest can walk on by. That is pretty much what I would have told him. No point in getting into it with an idiot. Cause that's what I think of anyone rude enough to say something like that. My car is a driveway restoration, slant six and I'm damn proud of it. It's painted now, but I started showing it right after I got it road legal before paint...
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MRGTX said:
Good to hear that you built it with your own vision. I am sure that GM unit (with the wonderful and badly needed overdrive ratio :D ) is serving you well.
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I have a built 408 stroker, a Dana 60, 4 wheel disc, suspension mods, etc... That transmission is the best money I've spent. I was 4000 rpm at 70 mph before, now I'm 3000 rpm at 80 mph. I beat this tranny up. I do rolling burnouts, regular burnouts, street racing and track racing. It's a trooper for sure.
 
Dana67Dart said:
Your not alone. Your feeling of regret is because you are a good guy. You reacted because you felt like someone said one of your kids was messy. I think anyone would have felt that way.

My dart was my dad's daily driver for 30 years and then mostly sat in the garage for the next 20. The engine compartment is stock and has 51 years of dust and dirt in places. The bone heads who rebuilt the engine 25 years ago painted it blue from its OE red. The body doesn't have a straight panel on it, paint is chipped off on all sides. The interior has a seam that let go on the drivers seat. I have polished some of the chrome / AL / Stainless (couldn't that have just picked with one!) The top is more patches than top.

This is my second year taking the car to the local Mopar only car show. I am always a bit uneasy parking next to the 50-60K GTX or other beautiful cars. BUT to all the d-bags out there like the a-hole who commented on your baby, I have only one thing to say...

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That brought a tear to my eye...too cool, man.
 
From my experience, people who build their own cars rarely act this was toward other peoples cars. It seems to be the people who shell out tens of thousands of dollars to pay others to build their car that act this way. Just my experience, but most of the latter type I have conversed with know very little about the small details of their cars and are generally interested in showing them, not driving.

And honestly, at shows i attend I am strangely drawn to the less than perfect cars. The owners are usually good folks and i like seeing different mods and degrees of usage. Last year at the Nats I talked with a guy who had a used and abused 62 Belvedere for about 30 minutes and i enjoyed looking around his car to see what he had done.
 
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Hell I've been asked to "Move your car". Typical car show crap you have to deal with. I'm sure all of you have had the guy that tells you everything that is WRONG with you car. Later you find out he don't even have a car.........
 
threewood said:
From my experience, people who build their own cars rarely act this was toward other peoples cars. It seems to be the people who shell out tens of thousands of dollars to pay others to build their car that act this way. Just my experience, but most of the latter type I have conversed with know very little about the small details of their cars and are generally interested in showing them, not driving.
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Agreed,... but I have seen both types that were jerks. Heck,... I've even seen B-body owners talk down to A-body owners, and E-Body owners talk down to both B-body and A-body owners. The point is that you can't generalize by a certain group, because in ALL groups,... you are going to have some good people, while others are just jerks and it's not worth letting them get to you.
 
diymirage said:
has nothing to do with your car and everything with his lack of social skills
nowadays people dont care about putting in the effort to build something themselves, because it is easier to tear someone else down


as long as your engine bay was body colored and not black, it was uncalled for

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I paint mine black just to piss guys off. Lol.
 
Last year I was parked next to a 68 GTX that was professionally rotisserie restored, it was amazing. The owner was such a nice guy. It was the first time I had been to a car show and he showed me the ropes. He gave me contacts to call for parts and other stuff. Not all people who pay others to do the work are D-bags.
 
diymirage said:
has nothing to do with your car and everything with his lack of social skills
nowadays people dont care about putting in the effort to build something themselves, because it is easier to tear someone else down


as long as your engine bay was body colored and not black, it was uncalled for

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And you are just like the guy the OP is talking about with your last comment on engine compartment paint color.
 
This is why i don't go to shows anymore.

I would rather go to a salvage yard and look at those cars on a Monday morning when I am the only one there.

People have a tendency to ruin good things.

I had the same experience with B body guys when I would be at a show with my slant six dart. Funny thing is that i noticed a slant six was getting more reaction than a non original pimped out hemi road runner. People were telling me of their memories of slant six cars from the 70s and 80s.

As long as you enjoy your car, it doesn't really matter what everyone else thinks.
 
diymirage said:
did you not see barney under that?
i was simply poking fun at the whole situation
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Nope.
My engine compartment is black. I hear that crap at the track every once in awhile from on lookers. I just tell them to line up in the other lane. My Mom taught me to keep my mouth shut if I didn't have something nice to say. I guess I better be quiet now.
 
mderoy340 said:
Nope.
My engine compartment is black. I hear that crap at the track every once in awhile from on lookers. I just tell them to line up in the other lane. My Mom taught me to keep my mouth shut if I didn't have something nice to say. I guess I better be quiet now.
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My 66 is back as well. I catch some grief but I needed to paint it with something and I still don't like the original body color.
 
^^^^ Rainy said it best, "It doesn't matter what everyone else thinks". I've too had more compliments on my Slant cars than most.
 
I don't show my car anymore, no time. I go to the occasional show.
My sayings are owner built, owner abused.
And you want to build my car, pay my bills.
 
You should see the hate I get over my dart. The only show I attend is the big mopar show. Last year I got first place and this year I was in "top gun" the best of the best....

My car his holes you can stick you finger through... NO ONE in top gun would even talk to me but I sure got a lot of comments from the regular guys...

Early in the show I was sitting on the rear quarter and when I came back to my car there was three kids leaning on the quarter..
Man I wanted to be pissed but when I saw how happy they were I said **** it.. I even the them sit in the driver seat.
How often do kids get to sit in a race car?

To all the dick heads, let them build there "check book" cars and us grease monkeys will just keep on doing the best we can with what we got!
 
definitely not 100% of them , but the majority of the checkbook charger guys , the guys that don't build , they just buy their cars, are usually the assholes that walk around and bash on the cars that are actually being put together a little at a time by the folks who have a passion for them and don't use them as a status quo. mine is a rolling project, but because I couldn't afford to stick it on a rotisserie and start with a complete 15,000 $ paint job , I had to work from the inside out , essentially working backwards, but everything is pretty much done but the paint , and I invite the assholes to knock it because I built it myself and I didn't have to pay three times what it's worth to own it.
 
Fisho said:
I'm building my car to make me happy, not for someone else's approval. It's got some rough spots but I built it and am still in the process of building it as time and money allow. I see a lot of new mustangs and hellcats at shows, I get it they are probably the owners pride and joy. I can go to the dealers lot and see the same thing. The cars that always get my attention though are the ones I know someone has put the effort into building themselves instead of just buying it.
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THIS ^^^^^^^^^^
anyone w/ the money can go buy a car and put it in a show, what the hell does that prove ?!
My engine bay is not black, but if I wanted it to be , it would be! I have had a couple of cars w/ black engine bays, and bet they would out run most of the people that hate them !
Unless ur car is a rigged turd, piss on him / them !!
 
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