| I agree with Adam. What happens to most of the restored cars? they live in garages and closed trailers taking them to an event. I think most of them do not get driven much. The modified ones, in the majority of cases are driven lots if not daily. Getting them out in front of the public. I, for one, would be much more confident driving my cars thousands of miles to a meet if it had modern disc brakes, Hi intensity headlights and modern pointless Ign, among many other updates. Many of these updates can be done without any outward changes, and even color changes can often enhance these cars. Other changes are dependent on the owners views and need to fit his/her feelings about the car. But you know, they mostly all are interesting. Ray
On Jan 26, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Robert Tittle wrote: I usually just Lurk on this a most other Interest Sites. But this time (sigh) I have to reply. Hear, Hear Adam! The important point here is that these cars are preserved. As Hot Rods, perfect Restorations, Drivers, RestoRods and anything in between. What’s almost as important is that there’s room for all of these View Points. These cars are being worked on, loved, driven, admired & NOT rusting away in some junkyard or melted down to make a Toaster. If you like your cars Showroom Stock, just like it was in 195x, build ‘em that way. If you like your car personalized with modern Brakes, Drive Train & Suspension, Build ‘em that way. We all love Tail Fins & Chrome or we wouldn’t be on this site in the 1st place. What difference does it make if we rebuild 60 year old components to Factory Spec or if we replace 60 year old technology with 70’s Front End Clips & 60’s Transmissions? There’s plenty of room for all these different views. What’s more important than this, or any other, point of view is that we reject this “I’m right & you’re evil” strident name calling & lack of flexibility. To preserve these wonderful cars, we must work together to prevent them from disappearing from our world. That’s all I have to say. I return to Lurk Mode. Colorado Firedome. From: Forward Look Mopar Discussion List [mailto:L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam Lindenbaum
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Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Restoration & Preservation. And letting them sit in junkyards, backyards, and driveways rotting is better than building hot rods! Makes sense to me. Why does the concours d'elegance show have classes for hot rods if they are so evil? I love my cars, more than most of you probably love yours, they are HOT RODS. One was a one owner, original paint, unmolested '58 318 2x4 Fury up until the late '80s, I'm more proud of that car and my now passed on friend who built it than most of you could imagine, I'm glad it offends narrow minded puritans like yourselves. I appreciate cars, stock, hot rods, kustoms, whatever, nice is nice, period. I guess that's why hot rodders are more popular and common, we like everything, puritans feel we should all think like them. And we bust our asses working on our cars just as much,if not more so don't give me this " It takes more work to restore a car" crap! I've done both, it takes more engineering and fabrication to build a safe, reliable hot rod than to clean up or replace parts that were meant to be bolted to that specific car..
Adam Lindenbaum
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