Looking for advice. Want to build a Duster to run on a budget.
Same, exactly the same. All you get at car shows is blow-hards saying stuff like "well that's not stock". Never mind that they couldn't tell you one technical thing about their cars, because they didn't build them. They paid some guy, and now pass that car off like it's theirs. Yeah, they may own it, but it's not theirs.
I just drive mine. I love driving old cars, I've loved it before I was even legal to drive. The best memories I have are riding around in some old car with my dad, or my friends, or my wife. And when I talk to people at gas stations, or the costco parking lot, or wherever, the vast majority of them aren't "well, that's a clone" or "those wheels aren't stock". No, they tell me stories about a car they had, sometimes not even Mopar (oops, it's not a Nova!), but regardless the majority of them are more interested in sharing a memory than nit-picking something that isn't original, or even mentioning that my car has more than a couple different colors of paint on it. Sure, I get "when are you going to paint it" too, but for every one of those I get half a dozen stories or a "well they're never finished are they?" from people that actually know something.
Which is why I wanted to be honest in this thread for the OP. Is his budget realistic TODAY? That's tough. Possible, maybe, but a tough ask. But to say it wouldn't honor his father to try? Because it wouldn't live up to some other guy's father's standards? No, that's bullshit.
Make your budget, spend the time and put in the effort. Get that old POS out on the road, and make some memories. And if you need help, yeah, shoot me a DM, I'm only at 680 and I'll delete some old ones when I get to 1k. Or show up at my shop, you wouldn't be the first.
No sir, I promise everything I said in this thread I'd say to straight to your face. I'd even say the stuff I deleted and didn't post here to your face. Maybe I'm not "nice", but I'm not disingenuous.
Your first post was gaslighting, condescending BS. Do you want to apologize to the OP, and me, for trashing our fathers? Guys you know NOTHING about? No?
You've never said this was a misunderstanding, you doubled down from the word go. No reason for it, you could have easily said your opinion without invoking anyones father's memory. I know exactly what I've said, I stand by it. Implying I'd say something different to your face just further emphasizes how little you know about me.
My bubble? My expertise? Buddy, you have no clue.
I've been daily driving classic cars for all but about 5 of the last 30 years. I've skipped meals to buy parts to keep my only method of transportation on the road, parked on hills so I could push start my car for days because I couldn't afford to fix the starter, burnished points on the side of the 405 while dodging freeway patrol because I couldn't afford the tow, even changed out my transmission in the street in front of a friend's house in an afternoon so I'd be gone before the neighbors complained.
You want to pile into this thread because I called out your BS in another one? Fine.
This work you did right here? This is hack job, con man BS. If it was really a money thing, you wouldn't even try to fix this issue. You wouldn't worry about it because the cosmetic rust you had before you started this abomination wouldn't have changed the road worthiness of the car, you could have driven it the way it was if it was about money. I know, I've driven worse for YEARS. No, the only reason to do this is to make something that needs a ton of work look like it doesn't
I didn't call you out because of your budget. I called you out because what you did to that car in your thread is a disservice to the entire hobby. And there's no legitimate reason to do what you did, on any budget. And you do something like the hack job above, and then try and make fun of me for driving a car that's a couple different colors? Seriously, I may be an asshole, but I'm not a hypocrite. You can't say you're doing what you do because of your budget and then try and tease me about driving a car that's more than one color and say I'm the purist.
Same, exactly the same. All you get at car shows is blow-hards saying stuff like "well that's not stock". Never mind that they couldn't tell you one technical thing about their cars, because they didn't build them. They paid some guy, and now pass that car off like it's theirs. Yeah, they may own it, but it's not theirs.
I just drive mine. I love driving old cars, I've loved it before I was even legal to drive. The best memories I have are riding around in some old car with my dad, or my friends, or my wife. And when I talk to people at gas stations, or the costco parking lot, or wherever, the vast majority of them aren't "well, that's a clone" or "those wheels aren't stock". No, they tell me stories about a car they had, sometimes not even Mopar (oops, it's not a Nova!), but regardless the majority of them are more interested in sharing a memory than nit-picking something that isn't original, or even mentioning that my car has more than a couple different colors of paint on it. Sure, I get "when are you going to paint it" too, but for every one of those I get half a dozen stories or a "well they're never finished are they?" from people that actually know something.
Which is why I wanted to be honest in this thread for the OP. Is his budget realistic TODAY? That's tough. Possible, maybe, but a tough ask. But to say it wouldn't honor his father to try? Because it wouldn't live up to some other guy's father's standards? No, that's bullshit.
Make your budget, spend the time and put in the effort. Get that old POS out on the road, and make some memories. And if you need help, yeah, shoot me a DM, I'm only at 680 and I'll delete some old ones when I get to 1k. Or show up at my shop, you wouldn't be the first.
No sir, I promise everything I said in this thread I'd say to straight to your face. I'd even say the stuff I deleted and didn't post here to your face. Maybe I'm not "nice", but I'm not disingenuous.
Your first post was gaslighting, condescending BS. Do you want to apologize to the OP, and me, for trashing our fathers? Guys you know NOTHING about? No?
You've never said this was a misunderstanding, you doubled down from the word go. No reason for it, you could have easily said your opinion without invoking anyones father's memory. I know exactly what I've said, I stand by it. Implying I'd say something different to your face just further emphasizes how little you know about me.
My bubble? My expertise? Buddy, you have no clue.
I've been daily driving classic cars for all but about 5 of the last 30 years. I've skipped meals to buy parts to keep my only method of transportation on the road, parked on hills so I could push start my car for days because I couldn't afford to fix the starter, burnished points on the side of the 405 while dodging freeway patrol because I couldn't afford the tow, even changed out my transmission in the street in front of a friend's house in an afternoon so I'd be gone before the neighbors complained.
You want to pile into this thread because I called out your BS in another one? Fine.
This work you did right here? This is hack job, con man BS. If it was really a money thing, you wouldn't even try to fix this issue. You wouldn't worry about it because the cosmetic rust you had before you started this abomination wouldn't have changed the road worthiness of the car, you could have driven it the way it was if it was about money. I know, I've driven worse for YEARS. No, the only reason to do this is to make something that needs a ton of work look like it doesn't
I didn't call you out because of your budget. I called you out because what you did to that car in your thread is a disservice to the entire hobby. And there's no legitimate reason to do what you did, on any budget. And you do something like the hack job above, and then try and make fun of me for driving a car that's a couple different colors? Seriously, I may be an asshole, but I'm not a hypocrite. You can't say you're doing what you do because of your budget and then try and tease me about driving a car that's more than one color and say I'm the purist.