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----- Original Message ----- Good point, Wayne! You worked for Chrysler in the carb division, right? What do you make of these freak cars and the proposition they came out of the factories that way? A '58 Plymouth with a '59 Dodge nose, a '58 Chrysler [?] with a '59 Dodge nose... --Roger van Hoy ******************************************* What's the big whoop ? People have been doing these mix-n-match cars since they were new. Even the factory did it to produce unique cars for non-domestic markets. My attitude has always been that I like "American" cars, with "American" being defined as those cars sold in the domestic market. Those cars I saw all over the American road when I was a kid. The rest ? Mmmm .... not so much. They are specialty cars for markets I never saw and really don't care about. Just because The Factory did something does not make it cool in my book. What made a car cool was that I saw them on the road in 1962 in the world I lived in. How they did it in South America or Finland is interesting enough, but doesn't interest me personally. That being said, these latter-day made-it-'m'seff jobs are really little different as an exercise in fitting parts together to create another non-domestic-market car. Obviously SOMEBODY thinks these are cool, or they would be getting made, but as I define "cool", they all just look like homemade projects gone awry. Not to step on anyone's toes if they happen to like them. I just have my own criteria for what looks right. Another point to be made is that cars like the 300 / Dodge we have been discussing are not new on the car scene and this particular car has been discussed at some length on the FL Forum, so it is no real secret that this car was "built" and that it lives in Sweden and that the owner even explained the front emblem etc., etc. I guess my point is that if you like these kinds of cars, then all the more power to you. If you don't, then what's the big deal? I don't like Fords as a rule. So what ? There are bigger things to get you panties in a knot about. .02
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