More on adding options....

Here's something that purists need to get over-If someone puts Super Bee graphics on a 383 powered '69 Coronet-it doesn't reduce the value of a numbers-matching "real" Super Bee one ounce!!  No matter how many Cobra replicas Factory Five sells-guess what? A "real" 427 Cobra is still worth $250,000!!!  I say this because I was talking to a guy who loved the DKM "Macho" T/A's, but every one he located for sale was priced very high-$25,000+. I told him that's because DKM-based out of Mecham Pontiac in Arizona-only built 2-300 cars a year from '77-79. They are rare. However-I told him-you could buy one of the 93,000 T/A's sold in 1978 alone, and buy the stencils from Phoenix Graphics to duplicate the "Macho" paint scheme. Adding Hooker Headers and dual exhausts is easy, as would be re-jetting the Q-jet carb and maybe even adding a Performer intake. ( '75-79 Pontiac factory intakes have a restrictive throttle opening which limits power above 4,500 rpm. Switching to the factory '67-74 intake or an Edelbrock Performer offers a huge improvement-it will now pull hard to 5,700 rpm. ) As long as you don't try to sell it as DKM built car-( Dennis Mecham has all the vin numbers for people who want to authenticate a "Macho" ). What harm is done? The same goes for putting "Judge" graphics on a '69-'71 GTO. If you want to paint a '69 Mustang fastback like a "Boss 302" and use Trick Flow or Edelbrock "Cleveland" heads and the "E-Boss" intake to create a "Mock Boss 302"-who have you hurt? If you put a Hurst Dual / Gate shifter and Hurst / Olds graphics on a '72 Cutlass, does it affect the value of the 629 "real" H/O's built that year?  No!!!  So if you want to make you LeMans into a GTO clone or your Camaro into a Z/28 your not hurting anyone. Mastermind