Modified or stock.. what is your stance.
12-10-2004, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by paul67
How many times do we have to go through this repeat nonsense? The Forum is becoming a real bore.
It's a forum...what else is there to do but bitch, whine and complain ? There has to be something else than sidepipes, headers, wheels, tires, manifolds, carbs. Don't worry ...this thread will be dead in a day or so.
12-10-2004, 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by paul67
How many times do we have to go through this repeat nonsense? The Forum is becoming a real bore.
12-10-2004, 10:49 PM
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I say that if you own the joint do whatever you want. if you spent your money, go for what you like. now, don't get it twisted. if i don't like it, i'm gonna laugh. but since i didn't pay for it, i think my opinion is unimportant.
If it makes you happy, all i can say is
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12-10-2004, 10:52 PM
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To me this is really quite simple.........it call comes back to money.
The pure stock original survivor car with low miles original paint driven only on Sundays by a gentleman and garage kept.........has to be the ultimate and should be the most expensive. Big bucks.
The painstakingly restored cars are probably better assembled and finished than the factory original. Again this is a big bucks category, nice to have if you can afford it.
Radical customized cars with new suspensions, late fuel injected engines, etc.......updating the old shell with all the modern technology.....again this is great to have but big bucks to complete.
Probably the majority are driving cars with non original engines, re-paints, re-upholstery, body repair, etc etc......they are reasonable in price and from ten feet away look like the real deal..........and just as much fun or more than the perfect stuff. This is the street daily driver car that can be replaced if something happens..........which is always a possibility if you drive anywhere there are other cars.
So which category you fit into depends on how much you are able to or willing to pay and what your purpose is, whether to hide in your garage, show or just drive.
The pure stock original survivor car with low miles original paint driven only on Sundays by a gentleman and garage kept.........has to be the ultimate and should be the most expensive. Big bucks.
The painstakingly restored cars are probably better assembled and finished than the factory original. Again this is a big bucks category, nice to have if you can afford it.
Radical customized cars with new suspensions, late fuel injected engines, etc.......updating the old shell with all the modern technology.....again this is great to have but big bucks to complete.
Probably the majority are driving cars with non original engines, re-paints, re-upholstery, body repair, etc etc......they are reasonable in price and from ten feet away look like the real deal..........and just as much fun or more than the perfect stuff. This is the street daily driver car that can be replaced if something happens..........which is always a possibility if you drive anywhere there are other cars.
So which category you fit into depends on how much you are able to or willing to pay and what your purpose is, whether to hide in your garage, show or just drive.
12-10-2004, 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ElCid79
Where can I get one of those NCR stickers... I am making a board with all of my stickers, comp, mallory, edelbrock, steeroids, etc. on it.... a not correctly one would only be appropriate.
I do appreciate the original Vettes. They are great to look at and to see how the cars were built, from the factory in the past. But when I picture myself (day dreaming) driving each different body style the car is never stock. I would love a '56 or '57 with the cheeter slicks, no front chrome, stacks coming outta the hood, and one of those solid front axles. But then I picture the mid-years (coupe of course)......
12-11-2004, 12:46 AM
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yeah 650hp i think would be enough to make just about any of us poop our pants... in the ferrari...
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12-11-2004, 02:38 AM
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Actually it may surprise some to know that I have tremendous respect for retaining 'stock'. Nor am I impressed by modifications that are either gawdy (IMO) or have little understanding for the underlying engineering that in some cases are compromised by poorly conceived 'modifications'. But no biggee - to each his own.
But my GREATEST turn-off is what a certain well, what you know who... has done to the whole 'stock' thing - the date codes, wing nuts, the trailer queens and the unwillingness to compromise on stock in the name of common sense or safety or reality etc... ridiculous and alienating and it's given 'stock' a bad name and made it synonymous with **** retentiveness and snobbery.
I guess that leaves me and folks like me (if there are any) somewhat in no man's land? So I'll punt until I can find a group that likes 'mostly stock' but for 'normal regular people who drive' who aren't above some mods and tweaks and tunes to keep us in the current century. Until then I'll hang w/ the mod crowd cuz I know their standards are just low enough to let me in.
Bottom line is because 'stock' is sooooo tightly constrained in the Corvette world I'll easily vote MOD!!!
But my GREATEST turn-off is what a certain well, what you know who... has done to the whole 'stock' thing - the date codes, wing nuts, the trailer queens and the unwillingness to compromise on stock in the name of common sense or safety or reality etc... ridiculous and alienating and it's given 'stock' a bad name and made it synonymous with **** retentiveness and snobbery.
I guess that leaves me and folks like me (if there are any) somewhat in no man's land? So I'll punt until I can find a group that likes 'mostly stock' but for 'normal regular people who drive' who aren't above some mods and tweaks and tunes to keep us in the current century. Until then I'll hang w/ the mod crowd cuz I know their standards are just low enough to let me in.
Bottom line is because 'stock' is sooooo tightly constrained in the Corvette world I'll easily vote MOD!!!
12-11-2004, 05:10 AM
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Originally Posted by nastee383
They are Hotrods right out the box.
12-11-2004, 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by MEGLADON
I have to STAND OUT 
Look at my sig and see how you think I voted.
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12-11-2004, 10:29 AM
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Stock or modified I love this delima, Some vettes were meant to be stock and left alone. ME I like mine wicked, mean and nasty I have had a ball with my "Modded" cars. Take one to a show, especially a vette show and just watch the look on the faces of the NCRS guys it's priceless. My last car was a 66 427/425 car with massive flares, tires, lowered a bit to meet my taste and would run circles around the stockers. You either liked it or hated it. With that said my new project is a 68 tri power BB car, L88 Flares, nasty power plant and suspension mods outs the Ying-Yang. But thats me.
Gerry
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Gerry
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