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- From: esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx (eastern sierra Adj Services)
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:49:46 -0700
See, I'm not NEARLY as olde as Ray Jones & Wayne Graefen, so, my
(un-in-)formative driving years occurred in the 60's, during the Muscle
Car era (altho I was ruined for life in 1957, at age-seven, when my dad
tooled home in a brand new Dodge CRL 2-dr).
Anyway, as they have said, in ANY car-period, a youthful owner will
modify his car to make it his own unique Ride .
Nothing was sacred about hopping up a car; heck, my own daddie put
Firestone 500's (nylon-bricks) on his 390 c.i. 65 Galaxie 500 convie (he
insured a Fart dearship) and I put a Champion spark plug decal on its
rear window (you Rebel!).
Of course, as with almost-all-things-hot-rod, the maximum Fair Market
Value on a particular car rests on its ORIGINALITY (or:
faked-originality!) rather than on its modifications.
I've OEM/MoPar- modded the hell out of my car
and it runs and drives great (with its 'stump-pulling[NOT]' 2.76:1 rear
end ; but, I have no intention of selling it, and I don't represent it
as being anything other than an owner-modded (original D500) car.
Neil Vedder---drive and enjoy your car; it will probably out-live YOU!
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- From: Ray Jones <hurst300@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:20:57 -0500
Wayne's right on. Don't know about you, but for me, as a teen in the
50's, they ALL had to have skirts, duals, and other "Mods" to make it
MINE.
First a '33 Chevy coupe with painted on WW and a little warming up of
the engine.
Next a '49 Ford 2 door with duals and skirts. At the same time I also
had a '39 Chevy coupe with a 3/4 race Jimmy and split Manifold duals.
Came out each morning in my senior year and had to decide which car to
drive to school.
Then came a '49 Merc. conv, which was radically customized and soon
after a '51 merc. which I transferred parts over and continued the
mods.
Point being, we, many of us, did all these things as teens and ALL wish
we had those cars today. In my case, especially the "Li'l deuce Coupe"
with the 331 blueprinted Hemi.
If we could only drive our memories to the shows....
Ray in Mena
On Jun 15, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Wayne Graefen wrote:
When we look through our family albums showing cars new and in their
early service years, what do we honestly see? From flivvers to the
full Classics, something very close to 50% of them BACK IN THE DAY had
modified paint schemes, hub cap swaps, fender skirts, suspensions
lowered or raised front or back, spotlights, fog lights, fender guides,
visors and etc. and under the hoods there were modifications including
cams, carbs and dual exhausts.
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