Are you a purist?
Like Tim and a few others in this thread (read top to bottom), I love backyard tech. Day 2 is awesome, because it lends a lot about the owner and their ideas.
I love seeing people's ideas come to life.
My preferences for things follow up on original aesthetics. I'm not dropping original wheels on the studs of my '68 Charger, but they are long gone off of shelves and catalogs.
I even like stickers on cars that aren't factory, when you see old ones.
Found this oil breather on eBay. I needed one for a filler on the Direct Connection covers, but the round ones didn't do it for me.
I couldn't find a Direct Connection logo breather to match the covers, but this is the same shape. Without the DC logo, I wanted something, so I ruined a perfectly good NOS Kendall sticker to pay homage to the roots of the Brad Penn that I run.
One thing that I will just throw out there that drives me batty, regardless of new or old, is going overboard on modifications for aesthetics.
All of these throwback cars, '71+ wing cars, new trucks... All of them have the same thing in common; They put too much on one vehicle.
hemi six pack superbee daytona shaker hood go wing convertible... sure. Put them all on one car. Don't forget a bumblebee stripe. Put a bumblebee stripe on everything.
One of the things that I like about the old cars, vs new, is how much variety there was, between each car. When I see everyone sticking the same thing on every car, or ALL the things on one car, it begins to lose that appeal.
I have 2 360 engines, 2 factory a body buckets and 2 gorgeous, original chrysler part number dual snorkel hood scoop sets COLLECTING DUST because I don't want to put them in the Scamp. Bumblebee stripes are sweet. Buckets and hood scoops too. But not on this one. I'll save them for something else.
I'm not saying don't mod. I'm saying choose your mods wisely and think about how many features you want and why you want them on your car. Realize that each one is a feature that will be thought about by others. Cragars? sure. How about sticking a set of Hurst slicks on the back and some silvertown redlines up front on them, so they fit the era, over the BFGs?
Like Tim and a few others in this thread (read top to bottom), I love backyard tech. Day 2 is awesome, because it lends a lot about the owner and their ideas.
I love seeing people's ideas come to life.
My preferences for things follow up on original aesthetics. I'm not dropping original wheels on the studs of my '68 Charger, but they are long gone off of shelves and catalogs.
I even like stickers on cars that aren't factory, when you see old ones.
Found this oil breather on eBay. I needed one for a filler on the Direct Connection covers, but the round ones didn't do it for me.
I couldn't find a Direct Connection logo breather to match the covers, but this is the same shape. Without the DC logo, I wanted something, so I ruined a perfectly good NOS Kendall sticker to pay homage to the roots of the Brad Penn that I run.
One thing that I will just throw out there that drives me batty, regardless of new or old, is going overboard on modifications for aesthetics.
All of these throwback cars, '71+ wing cars, new trucks... All of them have the same thing in common; They put too much on one vehicle.
hemi six pack superbee daytona shaker hood go wing convertible... sure. Put them all on one car. Don't forget a bumblebee stripe. Put a bumblebee stripe on everything.
One of the things that I like about the old cars, vs new, is how much variety there was, between each car. When I see everyone sticking the same thing on every car, or ALL the things on one car, it begins to lose that appeal.
I have 2 360 engines, 2 factory a body buckets and 2 gorgeous, original chrysler part number dual snorkel hood scoop sets COLLECTING DUST because I don't want to put them in the Scamp. Bumblebee stripes are sweet. Buckets and hood scoops too. But not on this one. I'll save them for something else.
I'm not saying don't mod. I'm saying choose your mods wisely and think about how many features you want and why you want them on your car. Realize that each one is a feature that will be thought about by others. Cragars? sure. How about sticking a set of Hurst slicks on the back and some silvertown redlines up front on them, so they fit the era, over the BFGs?
