Restored car pet peeves

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A pet peeve I did to myself. I was excited to get it in and running. It needed paint bad, it was over the weekend, and I couldn't get the original color mixed up until Monday. Then it would be the next weekend before it would run. If/when I paint the car the drive train will come out and color will be under the hood. Suffer guys!

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“That clip someone else posted of that Duster peeling out from a show brings to mind another one. The 1980’s tinted glass, tilt sun roof.”

Yeah, that’s me in the Duster. Happy to report the bug catcher has been removed and replaced with a 6 pack scoop. Unfortunately I can’t say the same about the moon roof. If I ever find the previous owner that put that in, I’m gonna castrate him on the spot. Next time the car gets painted it will be removed and repaired.
 
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RESTORED. Years back a guy on FBBO wanted to restore a 64 Belvedere to as factory as possible and asked for photos. At the time I had a survivor 64 Belvedere with 7,000 miles. I sent him these.I had plenty more too. It had a dent in the roof from when the line worker slipped with his screw gun installing the dome light.So restore to factory ? Or build to perfect ?
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Darter6 said:
RESTORED. Years back a guy on FBBO wanted to restore a 64 Belvedere to as factory as possible and asked for photos. At the time I had a survivor 64 Belvedere with 7,000 miles. I sent him these.I had plenty more too. It had a dent in the roof from when the line worker slipped with his screw gun installing the dome light.So restore to factory ? Or build to perfect ?
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Perfect would be over restored. :poke::lol:
 
Cookie cutter cars. 30 years ago it was the fiberglass 32 Ford or 35 5 window Ford with a 350/350 combo. Now is a C-something Cubby pickup with a LS, airbags, tubbed and 22" wheels. Usually with a Harley in the bed or being towed.
 
Here we go again, we get into the discussion about someone building their car. I've always advocated that the owner build it to suit them. If they want a concours restoration, they will eventually find out what is correct & what isn't. When I look at cars & see what they have done, I think to myself "that must be what they wanted". Everyone has their own ideas as to what makes them happy with their build & if the great masses don't care for it, I say " you buy it & do it your way?" My car is a race car & I don't pretend that it is any thing else. I've get good comments, as well as negative comments & that's their opinion. I was ragged big time for all of the parts that were taken out or cut out of my 71 Demon 340 4 speed car when I first joined FABO & BBD. I explained that I was the 4th owner & the car had been a race car since it was 3 months off the showroom floor. I have fixed & cleaned up most of the stuff that was butchered. I have no intent to try & make it a street car again, it's too far gone for that. Everything has a price & if someone wants to buy my car & restore it to be a street car all they have to do is bring money. Rant over!
 
i think i agree with all of kerndogs peeves...but that just means it would be wrong for my car.
I lived through the era so i like them the way they were or day 2.
Cut and polish and body color undercarriage for show cars for sure.
 
My take is I build my cars to suit me ( a somewhat maybe, maybe the wife). Cars comes and go, always have over the decades. When I sell a car I want the buyer to like it, or even love it as I do, and be happy with it, make it his own as he wishes, and therefore love it like he should.

A guy once told me I was sloppy with my pant work. I ,just said, I did it like the factory did it when it rolled off the assembly line!! ha
 
Painting bolts. Especially ones that are not supposed to be painted.

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Topless69 said:
Nailed that one RRR. I’m so tired of hearing “just put an LS in it!” when there’s a conversation about swapping, building, or tuning an engine. If the phrase comes up, the discussion is over.
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Yeah I caint believe somebody disagreed with that post. I guess they have a hard on for LS motors.
 
Topless69 said:
Nailed that one RRR. I’m so tired of hearing “just put an LS in it!” when there’s a conversation about swapping, building, or tuning an engine. If the phrase comes up, the discussion is over.
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I’ve been seriously looking at an LS in my Superbird. They’re cheap, make gobs of power (especially boosted) and I was already planning on using a TH400 trans.
 
Sort of related to this topic....
"New off the showroom floor".....
I sold new cars in the 80s. New car showrooms were not that big like they are today. Have you ever seen the pictures of Grand Spaulding Dodge? Their showroom held 3 cars and they were THE top Dodge dealer in Chicago during the musclecar era.
Many people, when talking about the history of some classic, say the car was bought "New off the showroom floor". It very likely was NOT. Maybe 2% of the cars sold annually by a dealership actually sat in the showroom.
 
i hate to say it but the LS and new Hemis are top shelf. They are odd looking things though and i wouldn't want one in my classic....but i'm "old school"
Most guys will do what makes them happy, as they should.
I have noticed mopar guys get upset when you don't agree with their choices more so than brand x.
I really don't mind if anyone disagrees with my builds.
i like new things...but not until they get old.
 
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I can support a 3G Hemi but the LS bullshit is annoying. If there was no valid option for us and if our engines were gutless and hard to find, that would be a different matter. Using an LS engine is like boning the boss's fat daughter to get a job with the company.
 
SSG_Karg said:
Only thing that makes me gag is guys that try to act like John Force leaving the car show in their POS clapped out 85 Camaro and do a one wheel peel for 1/8 mile down the road while oncoming traffic is honking and stopping. I get embarrassed just being in the general vicinity. I guess you could call that a pet peeve.
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Back in the late 80s, we used to cruise University Ave in St. Paul. There was an "Al's" diner at one and where nice cars would hang out at. We were across the street admiring from afar when a POS nova pulled up and started doing a burnout... right next to a sweet, candied out 71 Cuda'... Of course the POS busted while doing said burn out and proceeded to "lurch" forward... and to the right.... straight into the drivers side fender of this gorgeous Cuda'... I tell ya what... I've never seen a guy move so fast before, or since as the owner come from the parking lot, slide across his own hood and the hood of the nova, grab the nova driver through the open window and pull him out in one fell swoop. Impressive to say the least. It took 3 or 4 people to pull the Cuda owner off the nova guy.... Nova guy couldn't stand up without help ....

So.. pet peeve? people who take nothing into consideration when doing stupid crap like burnouts next to nice cars.
 
I really can't think of anything,but when someone calls a dist a dizzy that bugs me.
And as far as the blackout core support goes,back in the 70's when these cars were only 3 - 4 years old,you could blow off all that black paint at the car wash for 25 cents...then by the late 70's 80% of the cars that came to my shop was lucky to have any paint left on just from water through the grill..
 
Kern Dog said:
Long list in my head but I'll just list a few here...
* The core support with NO blackout on every car that isn't black. A guy restores a car and fails to paint the support black, so now you see the body color on the other side of the grille.
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WORD!!! I dont say anything but it would not be my choice either as well as a '65 Barracuda hood stripe painted below the PLYMOUTH badge...they didn't paint them like that and its easy enough to tell your painter 'stop here!' when there is so much attention to detail everywhere else. (just read all 4 pages before this, I guess I'm not the only one who didnt like the black out rad supports)
 
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ir3333 said:
i hate to say it but the LS and new Hemis are top shelf. They are odd looking things though and i wouldn't want one in my classic....but i'm "old school"
Most guys will do what makes them happy, as they should.
I have noticed mopar guys get upset when you don't agree with their choices more so than brand x.
I really don't mind if anyone disagrees with my builds.
i like new things...but not until they get old.
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Oh there's no doubt the LS is really the perfect package. I really do like them. It's just that they have helped the problem of "taking the easy way out" even more. We were already plagued with people having little imagination in this hobby. Now it's even worse.

Now you'll see the demise of the good old Gen 1 four bolt valve cover Chevy small block. And I hate that, because for looks, they are hard to beat. Just beautiful little motors.

Also, now you'll see less of the old school stuff like early Hemis, early Olds, early Cadillac, Ford Flathead, Buick straight eight and on and on....People will just take the easy way out.

And I'm not begrudging them doing it their way. At least the hobby will continue. I'll never put an LS in anything of mine. Just not gonna happen.
 
I was guilty of skipping the blackout on my Charger but eventually got around to it.

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72bluNblu said:
-Anything that arrived on a trailer. If you can't drive it there you don't deserve to show it off. No excuses for trips under a thousand miles.
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I agree with this. Several years ago after seeing a 67 GTX with a 6 pack 440 with chrome on the chrome on the chrome show up on a trailer at the first show of the year, I snuck over and wrote down the odometer reading. When I did the same at the last show of the year the car had gone 7 miles... what a waste.

10 or 15 years ago I drove my car 250 miles to the Mopar Nats in Columbus. You were required to be at your car when judged and start the car and show that various things related to safety actually worked. (you also had to have a functioning fire extinguisher on hand or you were disqualified) The old timer that went over my car had a guy in his late 20s learning the ropes with him. When the young guy pointed out paint chips on my rocker panel, the old dude looked at me and asked if I had driven my car there and where from. He then asked if I drove the car to all the shows I went to and I said yes. Then he turned to the young guy wagged his finger at him and said "Don't you ever mark a car down because the owner actually drives it!". 'Nuff said.
 
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