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Mark Beiser
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I'm all for people doing whatever they want with a car. Its the craftmanship that I apreciate. If I see something done poorly, my disdain is not because I'm a purist, its because the job was poorly done.
Having said that, I don't like it when someone drasticly modifies a car of historical significance, or that is exeptionally rare...
I get a laugh out of "purists" that insist on keeping cars stock "as the manufacturer intended". Note that just about all of them had special tuning departments, and produced quite a number of factory modified cars. =)
I'm not personally interested in engine swaps from outside the "family". If I want a Honda, I'll buy a Honda. To me, at least half the entertainment value of juicing a LBC up for performance is doing it with engines and accessories produced or modified for the cars.
The way I look at it, the boy racers cars may be faster than ours, but in 40 years, nobody will even remember those cars existed, but people will still remember that funney little British car grandpa had.
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Having said that, I don't like it when someone drasticly modifies a car of historical significance, or that is exeptionally rare...
I get a laugh out of "purists" that insist on keeping cars stock "as the manufacturer intended". Note that just about all of them had special tuning departments, and produced quite a number of factory modified cars. =)
I'm not personally interested in engine swaps from outside the "family". If I want a Honda, I'll buy a Honda. To me, at least half the entertainment value of juicing a LBC up for performance is doing it with engines and accessories produced or modified for the cars.
The way I look at it, the boy racers cars may be faster than ours, but in 40 years, nobody will even remember those cars existed, but people will still remember that funney little British car grandpa had.
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