Is anyone else "touchy" about their Mopar? (long rant...)

I had a similar situation many years ago with my 66 Barracuda (since sold). The Barracuda was originally a 273 car. I transplanted a 340 into it. It had a lot of other changes made to it. Anyway, I had recently put on an LD 340 manifold and made an L shaped bracket for the throttle return spring out of some flat stock because I couldn't get the existing bracket to work on the LD 340. So I'm at a show with the hood open and most of the guys were impressed with it and asking questions about the car. One guy points to my newly made throttle return spring bracket and pipes up "That's not stock!". I replied, "Well, this car is so far from stock now, it really doesn't matter." After he walked away, my friend was laughing and pointed out that I basically told him to F_ _ _ Off without actually saying it.