"Good Deals" or "Low-Budget" builds should be stuff the average guy can get, not "Moon Rocks!!!"

I hate to always be down on the buff magazines-but I can't help it-almost every month they print something that infuriates me or insults my intelligence. The ones I hate the most lately are the "Low-Buck" or "Budget Buildups". You've seen them-"12 seconds for $1,200". "500 hp Budget Small-Block Chevy Build" "Junkyard Jewel" etc, etc. I don't care if they say they bought an Edelbrock Manifold at a swap meet for $75 or a set of used headers for $50. We all get that stuff all the time. What drives me up the wall is in the middle of their "Low-Budget" 500 hp Small-Block Chevy article-"Hey-what about that set of ported and polished Brodix Aluminum heads that we "almost forgot we had?"  Really???  Or "Joe's brother not only gave us the disc-braked, 3.73:1 geared posi rear end out of his wrecked Trans-Am, he helped up put it in the Camaro and bought the beer!!"  Puhleeze. The two biggest offenders were Super Chevy and Mopar Action. Super Chevy ran one called "10 seconds for 10,000."  The $7,000 for a stompin' 500+ hp 383 crate motor was fine. What made my head want to explode was the "engineless" '79 Camaro they bought for $2,700 to put it in. This "engineless" Camaro had a 4.56:1 geared Currie 9 inch rear end, Competition Engineering Traction Bars,a TCI Built Powerglide with a 4,000 rpm stall converter and a Trans-Brake,an 8-point roll cage, an ATL safety fuel cell, and a set of Center Line Wheels with 7.10x15 Moroso drag front tires and 275 / 60R15 BFG Drag Radials. Gee, I'd like to buy a car with $7,000 worth of premium parts in it for $2,700!!  Like Ditka says on Monday Night Football-"Come on, Man!!" Mopar Action built a ground-pounding 440. Again-I didn't mind that they said they paid $400 for it out of a wrecked 1975 Chrysler Imperial in a Junkyard. They had it bored .030 over-standard rebuild stuff. Then they decided to use a Forged steel crank and a set of "Six-Pack" rods that they had "Laying around".  Check Summitt Racing-a 440 Mopar Forged crank from Eagle costs $1100. A set of forged Eagle rods runs $700. Then after they built it and got it to make 550+ hp with a set of Indy heads and an 850 Holley on a Performer RPM intake-"Just for "giggles" and "Nostalgia" they decided to try a "Six-Pack" induction stup that they had "Laying Around". Check Summitt or Mopar Performance. Edelbrock still sells the manifold,Holley still sells the carbs,and Mopar Performance sells the Throttle Linkage and Air cleaner. All that retails for $2,200. How nice that they had $4,000 worth of rare, premium parts "Laying Around"!!!  That's the crap that I hate. "Good Deals" should be stuff that the average Joe can find in an auto parts store or junkyard in any city in America.  That's all I'm saying. Mastermind