Using "Custom" and "Restoration" in the same sentence must be an oxymoron.
It would have been so much easier to have installed a 440 than a 305 mouse,
and a lot more fun.
This is a lot like a local car here in Minneapolis. A 59 Dodge Custom Royal
with a 500 inch Cadillac engine and dashboard, chopped top, lowered
suspension, and painted taxi cab yellow.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Patterson [SMTP:bintakin@EARTHLINK.NET]
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 9:46 AM
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@LISTS.PSU.EDU
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Fwd: Chevy-powered '57 Dodge on eBay
This is so sad, and now the guy thinks because he stuck a left over weak
suck drive train from a 4 door Malibu and a trans am dashboard in this
poor car, that all of a sudden he has a high ticket item. Sad to say,
that seems to be the main idea behind a lot of rodders these days.
Sorry, if you want me to pay big bucks for an item, sticking whatever
left over GM parts you have in any poor old car, especially a Forward
Look car, is not the way to do it. This shows the danger of letting your
kids read Hot Rod Magazine and most other Petersen Publications. That
company has been a GM lapdog for ages. The car is pretty, except for the
wheels, but in my eyes it's just another parts car or a big time project
car now. You can imagine the damage that has been done, it's even had
the frame cut. Main thing we have to keep repeating to these poor
misguided individuals is, You have ruined the value of the car! I would
have given you more for it if you had left it with faded paint and
broken glass. And the velour purple interior doesn't give it any cool
points in my eyes either. This is a sad day, let's bow our heads and say
a few words in memory of our poor lost brethren. It's just another sad
victim of bow tie rape. Myself, I have fixed way too many bowtie mouse
motors to want to have the enjoyment of replacing cracked heads and cams
with no lobes anymore. At least I can always say to myself, it isn't my
car. Sorry, I have to go now, I am feeling nauseous.........
Mike Sealey wrote:
> To see the most disturbing modification of a FL car
> since the crash scenes in "Christine", click the
> following:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=186243338
>
> I can deal with Chevy guys liking Forward Look lines,
> but even allowing for that some questions remain:
>
> A 305? He spent all that $$$$ and couldn't do a 350?
>
> An '83 Trans Am dashboard? Doesn't that defeat half
> the point of a FL car?
>
> At least nothing was said about the car being a D-501,
> in which case I'd have to be sedated and restrained...
>
> =====
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
|
|
Back to the Home of the Forward Look Network