Got a lot of flack from people after the last post-saying "Its my car and I'll Goddamn well do anything I want with it." Yes, that's your Constitutional right. The government hasn't figured out how to legislate away people's God-given right to be assholes. But think about how selfish these people are. Here's a few examples of people who should have been dragged out into the street and shot. # 1. This guy-I won't use his name-but I remember it well-is the King Kong of Assholes who destroy classic cars. He bought a pristine, restored, show-winning Fuel-Injected 1963 Split-Window Corvette for something like $30,000 in 1988 dollars. Then he gutted it and put a roll cage in it, a narrowed 9 inch Ford rear end with huge slicks, and replaced the FI 327 / 4-speed powertrain with a Tunnel-Rammed 454 and a TH400 with a 5,000 rpm converter and a trans-brake. Blaspemy most foul!!! If he wanted to "Pro Street" a Corvette-he couldn't buy one of the millions of '68-82 models that no one cares about and cut that up. If he had to have the early '60's bodystyle-there was a Kit Car company that was selling Gran Sport 1964 Corvette replica bodies-that could be transplanted onto the later C3 chassis. Or he could have bought any basket-case '64-67 'Vette out there and bastrdized that and no one would have cared. But no,you have to pick the rarest, most valuable Corvette ever built-( unless one of the 116 1969 L88 owners wants to argue ) and cut it to pieces. # 2. This guy should actually be # 1A" instead of number 2. He managed to mortally offend both the musclecar crowd and the Import tuner crowd. How did he accomplish this? By destroying not one, but two valued classics!! This genius took the engine and drivetrain out of '98 Toyota Turbo Supra and put it in a '67 Camaro. He was genuinely surprised when everyone called for his beheading. The '90's Toyota Supras are as sacred with the Import Tuner drift crowd as, well-a '67 Camaro is to the musclecar crowd!! Why would you think this is a good Idea in any way, shape or form? # 3. This clown offended both GM and Ford guys by putting a 389 Pontiac V8 into his 1957 T-Bird. Yes, I'm sure it was quite a bit faster than the 292 / 312 Y-Block it came with. But couldn't he have just swapped in a later model 289 / 302 or 351W or even a 390 Ford? Who wants a classic T-Bird with a Pontiac engine in it??? # 4. This moron was on the cover of not one, but two magazines. He bought a show-quality one of 458 455HO / 4-speed 1972 Trans-Ams ever built. Then he gutted it and put an LS motor and a six-speed automatic in it and extensively modified the interior and the body and the suspension. He couldn't buy one of the 275,000 T/As built from 1977-79 alone and fuck that up? Or any of the millions of beater '70-81 Camaros and Firebirds out there that no one cares about and use that? Hell, why use one of the 1,286 '72 models built-why didn't he get one of 88 1970 RAIV models and butcher that?? Not!!! # 5. This clown is worse because like #2-he destroyed two classics instead of one. He put a Superhcharged 5.4 Mod motor and six-speed tranny out of a 2007 GT500 and put it in-wait for it-A 1969 Boss 302!!! Not one of the 70,000 plus fastback Mustangs that Ford sold in 1969 made to look like one-no this was a for-real one of 1,603-Boss 302s ever built!!! Now no one with common sense is going to say that they agree that any of these projects was the right thing to do. And this rule applies to old and new classics as well-if you want to yank the 231 Buick V6 or 307 Olds V8 and put a 572 inch Chevy Rat motor into a black '81-87 Buick Regal no one cares. But don't do it to a pristine '85-87 Grand National!! You want to put a modern 5.0 Coyote and a six-speed into one of the 400,000 plus '66 Mustangs built, no one cares-but don't do it to a GT350H!!! Are we clear on my position now?? Mastermind
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