Yeah, I know it's a c4 but I just know when you guys see it you will be fighting to swap your c3 for it,


http://orlando.craigslist.org/cto/1429610543.html




While I defend a persons right to build whatever they want to, I also see cars once in a while that I would actually be embarrassed to drive....

 

hmmm looks familiar

 

People have a right to do what they want to their car, The rest of us have the right to point and laugh.

 

Hi Bats,
It really looks like it needs to HOP when it gets to a driveway apron!
Regards,
Alan

 

Years ago I had this 81,
I had a turbo rear wing, tacky 80's ground effects and even a lights black out kit, everywhere I went people pointed and laughed,

You see I love custom and I like to personlize my cars,
I ended up doing a wide body kit on that car.


Seems a bumper sticker I saw fits this just right...

You laugh because I am different I laugh because you are all the same.

I wish I could, but see no way I can defend this c4, it just doesn't work for me....
Do the c4 guys like it?

 

Hey, don't laugh! I went to Corvette's in Ocean City this past weekend and Best in Show was a C6 custom. Most of the class winners were customs, in fact. Even the C1 class was a restomod. Look out purists! The C2 and C3 classes had a few nice original cars too, but the customs took the show. After watching Barrett Jackson last Saturday night, I jokingly told my wife "hey, think I'll go buy $2500 worth of wheels/tires, call my Vette a Resto-Mod and it'll be worth another $10-20k!

 

This is one of them.

 

My posting this car could so easily be misunderstood, while I said I would be embarrassed to drive this c4 many people would feel the same about the Mako I am building.

I posted it more to serve that even while I defend peoples rights to build what they want to no one has to like it all in this case I don't care for the car in this thread, but I also didn't go on some long rant about how badly it sucks or lots of other pointless jabs,
We can say we don't like a car without being nasty jerks about it...

The only place stock will win out is at some NCRS meet,
With "stock" your car has to be right and nice but just like the one before it and after it, humans in general get bored with monotony.
The fact is a mod/custom is going to beat out stock at a "fair" show every time,

Mod/customs always in general attract more attention and popularity, the restro mod trend is going great and it is opening the door to more and more body mods, your basic road race inspired c3, you know flares, scoops etc is fairly "radical" when compared to stock,
People who go to shows even non car crafter's just gravitate to the mods,
It fun to see how a person tackled problems and made the car "theirs" rather than another sheep in a flock.

No room for hack jobs,
What I have seen is a much higher mark in Mod/customs, look at Rolling Thunder or cars built by roadracer for example, while a purists nightmare the build is top shelf and pretty much a ringer to win any show it would be placed in,

I get the irony but it will take far more than a set of wheels on a stocker to win the shows for the next long haul,
I believe in many ways the trend of numbers matching bone stock is slowing to a back burner simmer, sure rare cars will stay stock because of their collectors value, there will always be a NCRS but as the people who made the trend of "stock is the best...custom sucks" grow older and are replaced with the next generation of car crafter's we see the Mod/customs growing to be the hot trend,

Face it, nothing more than that set of wheels makes your car a restro mod, improving the cars drive train and suspension is modding, cars in their purest sense are meant to be driven,
Mods make that safer and more fun.