Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Why "Period Correct" is Important!

If you were watching a movie that was set in a certain time period, wouldn't something completely out of place just ruin the film for you? Like if in the "True Grit" remake the Coen brothers had Jeff Bridges carrying a Glock 21 instead of a Colt Peacemaker? Or if In Saving Private Ryan, the air strike showed F14 jets flying over instead of WWII vintage P51s. Pretty stupid,huh?  Would you buy a 2011 Charger R/T , yank the fuel-injected Hemi and electronically controlled 5-speed automatic and install a carburated 440 and a three-speed Torqueflite? Would you buy a 2011 Camaro SS and yank the LS3 / Six-speed Tremec combo and install a carburated, solid lifter 396 and a Muncie four-speed?  Spend 50 grand on a 2011 Shelby GT500 and yank the Supercharged 5.4 V8 in favor of a 428CJ? What kind of moron would do that?  The same types that do the reverse to vintage Iron. I swear to god, why doesn't Peterson Publishing cancel Hot Rod and Car Craft, and just put out "Modern Fuelie Swap" monthly, since every month we have to have pages and pages of SRT8 Hemis in '60's Mopars and LS Chevy engines in vintage GM Iron. Replacing the crappy Inland shifter in your Impala SS with a Hurst shifter is cool, just like it was in 1965. Putting an electronically controlled 4L80E trans in is not. A 1970 Monte Carlo with '70's style Corvette Rally wheels is cool. The same Monte with massive 22"'s looks like shit. Does everybody understand now? Mastermind 

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