Whats A Sacred Car That Makes People Cringe When Its Modified

[Lownslow]

just curious i had a few friends cringe when i told them that i plan on lifting a vette on 24s

[lordairgtar]

Prolly something there is only one left of or really rare...a Hemi Cuda ragtop?

[randx0]

not that I have a problem with it but I think the top of list would have to include vintage ferrari's

[gregbbear]

That is easy, a Ferrari California Spyder. For me, that is nails on a chalk board. But hey, it is plastic,so why not? Do I smell a little payback in the air? Hmm? For the money, one of those psuedo Miami Vice Daytona Spyders should do the trick. You know what they say " do what you want, as long as it isn't my daughter". If you do make a cringe-mobile, that I gotta see. Why not, somebody on this site is going to mesh a Williams F1 car with a VW I think.

Oh yeah, Bosses are the holy grail for 'stangers.

This is gonna be a fun topic.

Later,

Greg

[Modelmartin]

How about a Plymouth Superbird on 30" donks? Or maybe a Ferrari GTO?

Andy

[RodneyBad]

Sounds like a build off (build up?)

Build the last car you'd think any body would to that too.

WOOOOOOO Gears are turning in my head..

Or a headache

Is there a site showing how they lift them?

I'm still thinking of something.

1954-1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe

Edited April 6, 2008 by Zukiholic

[Lownslow]

Sounds like a build off (build up?)

Build the last car you'd think any body would to that too.

WOOOOOOO Gears are turning in my head..

Or a headache

Is there a site showing how they lift them?

I'm still thinking of something.

A gull winged Mercedes?

i found a 300 SLR but its missing parts

[Robert Myers]

Any car should be modified, lifted, dropped, channeled or chopped....except for a 1956 Chevy. They are sacred; should worshipped and left as is. 1957 on the other hand are good to go for anything.

[Lownslow]

Any car should be modified, lifted, dropped, channeled or chopped....except for a 1956 Chevy. They are sacred; should worshipped and left as is. 1957 on the other hand are good to go for anything.

i agree with you on that the car. the 1956 belair looks more custom stock than all chopped up

[Jairus]

How about a 1932 Dusenberg town coupe with the body work behind the drivers seat replaced with a flat bed and tow hook?

[Phil Patterson]

Any car should be modified, lifted, dropped, channeled or chopped....except for a 1956 Chevy. They are sacred; should worshipped and left as is. 1957 on the other hand are good to go for anything.

Ahh, come on now! You can't tell me that a 56 Chevy doesn't look right at home lifted with a pair of leafs springs and a tube axle on the front with the rear quarters opened up for a pair of pie crust slicks! Whitewalls, preferably!

[FORDSVTPARTS]

In scale anythings a target for severe modification, They're models.

Now if you talk about the real thing and want to start cutting up ultra rare cars then you may have problems.

[Olle F]

In scale anythings a target for severe modification, They're models.

Absolutely. IMO, there are many cars that simply can't look any better than the way they came from the factory, but if you want to try anyway, why not? You can always hide it or recycle it for parts if it ends up being too hideous. Or you can show it to people just to upset them.

[Nick F40]

Is this supposed to be funny or in our faces? ......................juuuuust wondering.

Sounds like a build off (build up?)

Build the last car you'd think any body would to that too.

WOOOOOOO Gears are turning in my head..

Or a headache

Is there a site showing how they lift them?

I'm still thinking of something.

1954-1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe

That would be cool. I am with ya there on the headache.

How about a 1932 Dusenberg town coupe with the body work behind the drivers seat replaced with a flat bed and tow hook?

THAT would be neat to see.

In scale anythings a target for severe modification, They're models.

Now if you talk about the real thing and want to start cutting up ultra rare cars then you may have problems.

Yeah, with models you can do pretty much ANYTHING but to do that to a rare car you run in to "slight" problems

[Spike]

Prolly something there is only one left of or really rare...a Hemi Cuda ragtop?

i built a hemi cuda drop top into a lowrider hopper

and to me ANY car has to be modded in some way or another. IMO are plain stock car is just to plain jane and ugly.

[Pokey]

The only cars I think look best in stock trim are the '46 to '48 Chevys. They still have to be lowered, of course, but, even with the stock wheels and no body modifications, those cars just look absolutely stunning to me!

Alot of European sports and performance cars look just fine in stock form as well.

[old low&slo]

everything looks better low

[Harold]

Packard-Darrins (I saw a cusomized one on "My Classic Car" that made me want to reach through the TV and smack the guy who committed said sacrilege), any other Packard, Mark I and II Continentals, Cords, Deusenbergs, any other true classic (pre-48, low production, original lofty price) and Ferraris.

[FactoryStock54]

Hey, do whatever the heck you want to a MODEL CAR.

However, some real older cars are now approaching the status of endangered species and need to be protected; a recent column in "Hemmings Classic Car" told of somebody who'd taken a blow torch to a '39 Graham Sharknose and painted it purple. That's sacrilege, like painting over the Mona Lisa with clown make-up or serving the last Komodo Dragon on a platter (as in "The Freshman"). In the same publication I'd read about a guy who was able just in the nick of time to buy a '37 Nash Lafayette sedan before another guy who wanted to chop it; now how many '37 Lafayettes are still on the road?

Sometimes, it seems, people approach a subject with the idea that it has to be changed, regardless of whether change is an improvement or not; but there are many classics which are self-contained works of art just as they stand, and trying to modify them only diminishes them. There is no humanly possible way to improve the looks of a '37 Cord Beverly, a '41 Lincoln Continental, a '32 Pierce Arrow limo, a '41 Cadillac, any Deusenberg ever made or almost any pre-war Packard. Take a blow-torch to cars like that and you might as well take a butcher knife to a Rembrandt.

If you get dibs on something that's been rusting away in a junkyard, that's one thing; but to take a road-worthy example of rare early Detroit Iron and turn it into a clown car is quite another. The original impetus behind hot-rodding was to take stuff nobody cared about and turn it into rolling folk art; now it's become more a rich-man's ego trip and there's very little originality to be seen.

[Uncle Mike]

Hey, do whatever the heck you want to a MODEL CAR.

However, some real older cars are now approaching the status of endangered species.

The original impetus behind hot-rodding was to take stuff nobody cared about and turn it into rolling folk art; now it's become more a rich-man's ego trip and there's very little originality to be seen.

RIGHT ON, Jerry! The very last time I went to a "Goodguys" event these $$ dorks were everywhere.

A 1/25 scale 'one car diorama' that really shook 'em up was my '62 Corvette, the front end raised on jack stands, the Corvette engine laying off to the side, (on its side) and a fresh, detailed '48 Merc flathead getting installed!

Red block, polished finned heads, 4-carb manifold, scale Harmon-Collins magneto on the front...

Some of these spectators actually got mad at the Ford-in-a-Chevy trick, even if it Was a Flathead!

[Harold]

RIGHT ON, Jerry! The very last time I went to a "Goodguys" event these $$ dorks were everywhere.

A 1/25 scale 'one car diorama' that really shook 'em up was my '62 Corvette, the front end raised on jack stands, the Corvette engine laying off to the side, (on its side) and a fresh, detailed '48 Merc flathead getting installed!

Red block, polished finned heads, 4-carb manifold, scale Harmon-Collins magneto on the front...

Some of these spectators actually got mad at the Ford-in-a-Chevy trick, even if it Was a Flathead!

What's really ironic is that these same people are always dropping Chevy engines into Fords. Whenever I'm at a car show and see another Ford with a small bock Chevy in it, I yawn and walk off. I've had evil plans of dropping a DOHC 5.4 mod motor into a 'Vette just to annoy everyone.

[parktonplastic]

On my table right now is a Ferrari Rat Rod, '85 Testarossa convertible that's getting flat black paint, and a tunnel rammed V-12. Gonna need some Holley Dominators this saturday at NNL East.

[Joe Nunes]

How about Donk'in a YUGO...or a CHEVETT?

Just don't mess with my 1962 Chevy Impala SS (but I just KNOW you will )!

[samdiego]

I remember a couple of years ago, one of the $$ guys rodded a '34 Chrysler Airflow. Lots of people were upset about that one. I'm pretty sure the guy started with a basket case. I thought it was cool. My Dad's a purist, I remember him catching me hacksawing the AMT '40 Sedan into a town car config and lecturing me on the trouble and expense the engineers went through to make the kit and the original (He's an industrial engineer)

then I polka dotted it. That's when he knew I had gone to the dark side. I think I was 9 at the time.

Edited April 11, 2008 by samdiego

[Lownslow]

saw the car today ended up passing on it the frame was pretty rusted out in the rear and looked like it was starting to sag