You can add options to a car...

The last few posts I've talked about buying an already finished car and trying to find the options you want. Like I said before the chance of you finding a car with every single thing you desire is pretty slim. However-a lot of things can be easily changed. For example-if you have or want to buy a '60's GTO or Firebird, and you just "gotta have" the hood tach, that's a pretty easy add-on. Year One, NPD and other places sell them. Another one is a vinyl top. Whether you do or don't want one-it's a pretty simple process to add or remove one. Another is wheels. If your disco-era T/A has Rally II wheels and you want "Snowflakes" or vice-versa, Year One, Wheel Vintiques, and others can help. Ditto for Chevelles,Corvettes and Camaros and the various Rally wheels Chevy offered over the years. These companies also offer Chrysler Rallyes, and Magnum 500s that were used on various Ford,GM and Mopar offerings. Other stuff takes a little more work, but is not a major undertaking. For example if you want to add a "Six-Pack" setup to a Mopar-Edelbrock sells the manifold, Holley sells the carbs and Summitt and Mopar performance sell the air cleaner and throttle linkage. The whole setup will cost you about 2 grand-but with "real" six-pack cars getting almost as pricey as Hemis-it might behoove you to buy a 440 4bbl Charger or Road Runner,etc for 10-15K less money and then add the induction setup! Pontiac Tri-Power setups are all over the internet. A lot of companies sell front disc brake conversion kits for most popular cars. Summitt sells new steering boxes and power steering pumps for most popular bodies. So if you found your dream car except for the fact that it had drum brakes and manual steering-those are easy upgrades. ( If your a mechanic, and if your not, most shops wouldn't charge more than a couple hrs to do simple stuff like that ). A little harder, but not insurmountable is certain transmission swaps. For example, if your car has a 3-speed, and you want to swap in a 4-speed, it's pretty simple. For GM guys,most Saginaw or Borg-Warner 3-speeds are the same length and share a common rear trans mount with Saginaw, BW or Muncie 4-speeds. You wouldn't even have to shorten the driveshaft. Mopar 4-speeds and 3-speeds are usually the same length and have a common rear trans mount. If your GM car has a Powerglide or ST300-a TH350 is exactly the same length and shares a common rear trans mount and driveshaft yoke!! You could even use the stock shifter if you wanted to. ( You wouldn't be able to manually engage low gear, but with a good B&M or TransGo shift kit-you won't need to-the trans can be programmed to automatically downshift to low gear below 15-20 mph.)  And if you ever sell the car, most people would much rather have a 4-speed stick or 3-speed automatic than a 3 speed manual or 2-speed auto!! Why does everyone care so freakin' much what something will be worth if or when they sell it?? If your prospective buyer has to have a 2-speed "Powerslide" in a 396 Chevelle or 389 GTO instead of the "unoriginal" TH350-then let him change it back after he buys the car, and SLOW Down his 0-60 and 1/4 mile by 1/2 a second or more!!  The point I'm making is don't pass up a great deal on a great car because it doesn't have some easily added feature. Mastermind