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Adam,
I 100% agree with you. I was a extreme
purist at one time. I made sure that everything was perfect on the cars and many
people really enjoyed looking at them at shows. However one day I said to
myself. "You made enough people happy now it's your turn to be happy". I started
really driving them changing them a little and enjoying the hell out of
them.
Now I think of most puritans as great guys, but they remind me of
the type of guy that marry's one of the most beautiful girls in the world
and bring her to shows for you, me and other guys to look at. But they just
save her, and dress her nice, they keep her a virgin and never lay a hand
on her or make love to her. Gosh, that is so very sad!!!!!!
If that beautiful high
performance car they own could talk, it would probably say " I was
specially built to out perform most cars in my class, to breath the fresh county
air through my carb (s) and rumble through my exhaust
pipes, you have taken me and imprisoned me in a garage and only let
me go out on sunny days. You then lock me in a trailer and push me around and
try not to start me, if you love me, then run free with me on the highways and
byways, the back roads and the freeways, show people I am beautiful and I am a
real car, and you are proud of me!!!!!"
I also think if the car could talk
it would say " Save me and keep me perfect shape, and when you pass away some
young guy with money will buy me and pound me into the ground.........please
enjoy me now while we are both in good ole shape, don't let me die a
virgin."
Ron Swartley
PS. For any Mopar purist reading this---love you guys, hope
you are happy, really I do. I respect your beliefs, I just don't agree with them
unless you are putting your car in a museum, because your car is packed full of
fun if you drive it more often!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In a message dated 1/26/2011 10:15:35 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
adaml57@xxxxxxx writes:
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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Message----- From: Louis Rugani <x779@xxxxxxxxx> To: L-FORWARDLOOK
<L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 9:41
am Subject: [FWDLK] Restoration & Preservation.
It's all about where and with whom
one associates. The prestigious AACA is still the biggest old-car group, where
historical accuracy and correctness is both sought and celebrated, just the
same as the founding principles behind this Forward-Look group.
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