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So what's the big deal with customized cars?

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Walk away for one minute, the plaster isn't even dry yet, and next thing you know he's painted some banquet all over it! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif


PC. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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Wasn't Michaelangelo guilty of painting the "Last Supper" too? Da Vinci painted grinning women and invented wierd flying devices or something.
 
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Wasn't Michaelangelo guilty of painting the "Last Supper" too?

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He was if you ask Monty Python. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif


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Da Vinci painted grinning women and invented wierd flying devices or something.

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Historians say he did a lot of things to grinning women. (nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif )

Flying machines, parachutes, rotisseries, tanks, submarines, clocks... I can just hear his schoolteacher "Leo! Stop doodling and pay attention!" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonono.gif


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Unless you have some rare or ultra classic car, I see no reason why customizing should be frowned upon. Restoring a common car is as easy as opening a catalog. Customizing takes making something that didn't fit before fit now. I fully respect someone who has taken the time to restore a car, but to me, a custom car is much more interesting. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
I'm pretty much in agreement with 78Z. A stock looking car with a well done swap (on a fairly common classic) is no big deal. Furthermore, work that would conform with Vintage racing ideals (tuning that could have been done at the time) or even improvements to the stock system are no big deal at all. The only case where i would disagree is if the vehicle is extremely rare. I'd hope there's at least one factory original (more or less) version of every car so it can serve as a museum piece. However, I'm not the sort to pick out the most rare of vehicles ... I like to play a bit.
 
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