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You know how the old saying goes: Opinions are like a$$holes, everyone's got one.
I am sure that guy loves his car. whether or not you like it or hate it doesn't really matter. It's always easy to bash someone for thinking out of the box.
Maybe if he painted it brown you would like it better.
This is true and then people want to start trying to speak for others or use words like the "consensus" saying this or that is bad, seems a bit ****-ish to start spewing tripe that some name less face less group agrees with your narrow opinion because you say they do,
Lemmings will always drop that lime in their beer just because, but get over ones bad self and don't spew to the next fellow how HE should build his car chances are he doesn't like your build.
Most threads started bashing something are due to boredom and wanting to start the flames.
Just like I said from the start this threads car is too radical for most but the big killer for most is all that extra non sense on the rear, toss the roof station wagon wing, the turbo wing and the pointless rear braces and you have a very nice Greenwood racer look, again not everyones cup o tea. but no worse than, brown paint, odd tacked on hood vents, flame paint on c3's, things sticking out of c3 hoods, modern duck tails, or tilt front ends on flared 69's etc the list goes on Ad nauseam....
Ok, on the positive side of things, the execution is really nice. As far as the vision, not so much. With a little 'murder' treatment this thing can royally kick-a$$ in the next Death Race
I dont know if that was what inspired Greenwood I would not be at all surprised.
When he raced these he pushed each rule to the edge, this wasnt just a wild custom he did tests and studies that the different mods helped the car in some way or another, the street version was a spawn of the race car
Seems too many people who have customs and the more radical the worse it gets have mass delusional that the car is worth 3-5 times what going rate on it really is.
Even if it was built standard Daytona Greenwood wide body ( remove the extra rear tripe ) it's a base auto 76 with no ac, they dont brag of suspension mods so I bet it has none, it's about a 8-10 k custom and only for that right person who would like it...
People are weird, some bucks up fellow might fall in love with this car and in my opinion overpay for it , but I doubt it will fetch 34 k nor do I believe it has that much in it, I see overpriced customs daily.
I passed not long ago on a very sweet wide body convertible big block for 12K it was an old school traditional Ecklers style wide body.
What's being missed and the part of all this is the vast difference between a finely built custom or a nasty patched together hack job, ( finely built doesn't mean you have to like the style )
Don't confuse where I am coming from, Jalopys are not normally hack jobs they are built low budget with what the builder can get but they are built well, like many of the cars people here on this forum own.
Hack jobs are another thing the car in this thread like it or hate it is not a hack job the glass and paint work is very good ( is your car that nicely done? ).
There are a lot of customs if not all of them out there that were made to suit the taste of one person, the owner if the car is built well I will respect that and the hard work that the owner or a shop put into it, doesn't matter if I like the style, personal taste is just that, but when over the top trashing a nicely built car happens I have to wonder the trash talkers true motivations, it's boring, I guess I just would rather spend my hobby time being positive not all negative..but if that is how a person gets their jollies...
This is what I consider a true over the top hack job.
Don't get me wrong , I respect peoples individual builds . Some are , imo , too much for me to own . I love the car that started this thread ( minus the extra s on the back ) lots of hard work & $$ went into it and I respect his vision.
The Mach5 , I love it & yes would take it .
The last you posted Bats , well .........
It is someone's vision , just not mine .
I doubt it will fetch 34 k nor do I believe it has that much in it, I see overpriced customs daily.
Like you said, the quality of the work is very good despite the terrible style. The owner probably did most of the work him/herself and doesn't have $34000 cash into it but if you priced out their labour at at least $20 per hour I'm certain there's more than 34000 worth of labour in it, especially on the remote chance that they paid a shop $100/hour to do the work. I put about $10000 and roughly 2000 hours of labour into my 81 AMC Eagle. Pricing my labour at $20 per hour I've got $50,000 into the car even though its obviously not worth anywhere near that.
you would like it better. 
