The ride
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Joined: Apr 2002
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From: Waterloo, Iowa
There's no accounting for taste, if that's what you mean. I still maintain if someone wants a new truck they should buy one. You should see the old wooden radio collectors cringe when somebody throws the original chassis away and installs a CD player, or makes a fishbowl out of it. Me, I like the survivor trucks. It's interesting to see how different manufacturers did things. Whether it's a generator or Zenith carburetor or whatever. Then I can look it up in the manual.
If they drop a smallblock chevy in it, BORING. Crushed velvet, power steering, power brakes? To each his own, but it doesn't make any sense. At least somebody should make glass reproduction bodies to just drop on S10 frames and call it a day.
If they drop a smallblock chevy in it, BORING. Crushed velvet, power steering, power brakes? To each his own, but it doesn't make any sense. At least somebody should make glass reproduction bodies to just drop on S10 frames and call it a day.
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Joined: Nov 2001
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From: Orange County, CA
It just boils down to ultimately makes the builder/owner happy. I admit, I'm on the more modified side.
I've got a rare late '40's British roadster, that is being modified to make actually usuable in today's world. When some in England found out the plans, they weren't too happy. But had it been left as it was, it wouldn't have been drivable in modern traffic.
Not every vehicle will satisfy all.
I've got a rare late '40's British roadster, that is being modified to make actually usuable in today's world. When some in England found out the plans, they weren't too happy. But had it been left as it was, it wouldn't have been drivable in modern traffic.
Not every vehicle will satisfy all.
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Joined: Oct 2017
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From: Vernon, N.Y.
I like driving the old vehicles. There is something about all of them that I just enjoy. My 39 plymouth has a better ride than my new vehicles. It doesn't take a corner as good though. But, I can appreciate a resto-mod too. I like them all I guess.
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