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1-1 , I like and can appreciate them all ,,, from OE stock to street rods. But I raraly walk thru the race car pits at a 1-1 show.

But for myself to own I like the OE stock look. Maybe not to a full blown right valve stem cap type of car. But it has to look stock the average people looking at it.

Weird part is, in modeling I hardly ever build anything replica stock. 90% or better is old drag cars

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I occasionally pick up a copy of Muscle Car Review and I can guarentee that i'll be spitting chips by the time I have read to the end.

I love the cars but the insanity of the numbers matching, date coded, replicated inspectors marks, never driven, rare options carp drives me nuts.

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If its models then build it any way you want. I build both stock and custom/hot rod

With 1:1 cars I see things a little different. While I love a good concourse restoration or survivor original car, I also love hot rods and customs. I guess it would depend on the vehicle. I do hate to see a good original car cut up for hot rodding though. There are only so many originals left and plenty of non-original, restorable tin out there to hot rod.

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I personally like the original way but with parts getting scarce its hard especially if your doing a early to mid sixties Mopar. Ford and GM have catalogues full of restoration parts that look like the originals. I think the numbers matching senerio is over. A few years ago a clone 67 GTX for more than a numbers model of the same car. Its what YOU want and its YOUR car. If others don't like it the way you did it, TOUGH BEANS....

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I personally like the original way but with parts getting scarce its hard especially if your doing a early to mid sixties Mopar. Ford and GM have catalogues full of restoration parts that look like the originals. I think the numbers matching senerio is over. A few years ago a clone 67 GTX for more than a numbers model of the same car. Its what YOU want and its YOUR car. If others don't like it the way you did it, TOUGH BEANS....

this is exactly what i mean, its your car and you should be able to do what you want. say i have a 69 judge, needs resoring, so i build the motor a little, put cragars on and change the expensive orange paint to black, and add different color stripes. did i ruin the car, no, but sure as you know what, i take to a show and someone will bitch at me cause i did not put it back to origional! thats expensive.

been going to the mopar nats for a long time, my buddy had a pink 70 duster (maybe a 71, dont really remember) lots of options, ground uo resto. one year, he came in 2nd place because his car wasn't date coded properly, he spent over a grand date coding EVERYTHING in the engiine compartment. they nicked him because the foam insulation arounf the air vents in the interior was wrong. so i guess its like anything, the person with the most money wins! by the way, after date coding and numbers matching all the engine parts, it ran like ######!! but boy, the numbers were right!!

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I once encountered a beautifully customized Hupmobile sedan at a World of Wheels type car show. The owner/builder was there and I asked him, why customize such a rare car? He said it was about cost and availability. I asked the same question to a fella with a '66 Mustang fastback who had replaced the entire drive-train and suspension with something modern. He said it was about drive-ability. They both wanted to enjoy their cars, to drive them.

And I agree with both. My favorite muscle car is the '66-67 Charger. If I was given one today and the $$ to build it, it would have a modern 6.1 hemi and modern suspension tomorrow. However, If someone gave me a low mileage hemi car, I could not in good conscience do the same thing to it. I would sell it in a heartbeat to buy something I could drive without the guilt.

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