"Purists" Get Over Yourselves!!!.....Hot Rodding has always been thinking outside the box....

Had a few drinppingly sarcastic emails from Purists over the last few posts-saying that I shouldn't have included the Kit Cars like the '33 Ford, the '50 Ford, the 'Vette and 240Z based Ferarri replicas as those aren't "real" musclecars. Puhleeze. Long before Pontiac introduced the GTO in 1964 there were Hot Rods. Guys were playing with Flathead Fords-how do you think Vic Edelbrock got started? By building high-performance Flathead V8's for his and his customers race cars! A popular swap was the "Studillac"-guys would would stuff the big Cadillac V8 into a light, sleek Studebaker Coupe body to try and go 200 mph at Bonneville. And what about the almighty Shelby Cobra that everyone worships? The original Cobra was a British sports car called the AC Ace that Carroll Shelby stuffed a 260 ( and later 289 ) Ford V8 into!!  So many guys were putting small-block Chevys into Austin Healeys that the buff magazines of the day affectionately called them the "Poor Man's Cobra".  Ditto for the 289 Ford powered Sunbeam Tiger. Are these guys saying that a Pantera isn't a performance car because it has an Italian body and a Ford V8? These guys must have Donald Trump's bank account-you seriously turn up your nose at the Idea of a blisteringly fast, great handling '33 "California Kid" tribute-because it's not "Original??"  I hate to break this to you-'34 Fords didn't have 302 V8's and C4 automatics!!!  So Pete Chapouris' classic isn't "Original" either asshole!!!  Ditto for the American Graffiti / Two-Lane Blacktop '55-'55 Chevys didn't have 454's and tilt front ends from the factory!!!  Arrrrrgghhhh!!!  I will not "apologize" for giving good advice on how to copy a movie / TV car and save money. Just what is it I said that's so offensive and requires an apology? Mastermind