You can't fix stupid!

Comedian Ron White uses that line as a catchphrase in his stand-up act. Sadly, it applies to some people who like musclecars. I know the Foreign sports car nuts have griped for years about guys putting small-block Chevys in Datsun Z cars, or small-block Fords in Jaguars, but in those cases, the American V8s were lighter, had twice the power, and cost way less to buy or build than the six-cylinder engines they replaced. I saw an article in a magazine about a guy who installed the powertrain out of a 1998 Toyota Supra Turbo into a 1967 Camaro. Yes, the car was fast. But he spent way more money swapping in this drivetrain and all the electronics necessary to run it, than he would have if he just bought or built a small or big-block Chevy. And I have to say, he did ruin the value of the car. No musclecar enthusiast wants a Camaro with a Toyota engine, and doesn't want the expense of trying to change everything back. The Import tuner crowd doesn't want a Camaro, period. They want Honda S2000s, Mazda RX-7s, and RX-8s, Toyota Supras, (the whole car, not the engine and tranny stuffed into an old musclecar) and Subaru WRX's. If he does decide to sell it, who's going to pay him anywhere near the 50 grand he's got invested in this frankenstein monster?  No one I know. I saw another one where a guy put a Chevy LS3 in a 1990 Mustang GT. Why? A Fox-bodied 5.0 Mustang can be made to go just as fast as anything else. You see them all the time with 10 second or 9 second time slips in magazines all the time. And again, Chevy guys don't want it, Ford guys don't want it, so you spent a bunch of money building a car that no one but you thinks is cool. I guess that's ok, I mean whatever floats your boat, but how do you come to that decision?  "Hey-why don't I spend twice as much money and three times as much time as it would take to build a stompin' 347 Ford stroker, to install a Chevy engine in my Mustang that won't run any faster than the Ford would have?" "Won't that be badass?"  The best was the guy that wrote to Hemmings Classic Muscle Machines magazine and asked why they didn't feature old musclecars with modern fuel-injected powerplants swapped in. Did you miss the "Classic" in the title? He's probably the same guy who wrote to Playboy asking why they didn't have pictures of girls wearing high heels in their magazine titled "Barefoot Beauties." You can't fix stupid!! Mastermind