Posted by WA-Hal on September 04, 2009 at 20:28:32 from (208.81.157.90):
In Reply to: Re: More Old Cars posted by KEH on September 04, 2009 at 15:43:16:
I don't think the Chevy is what they call heavily customized--it looks like a mostly stock body with custom paint and added alloy wheels.
A heavily customized vehicle would need to have lots of body modifications, like a chopped top, maybe channeling over the frame or sectioning of the body or maybe all of the above.
A friend of mine has a 57 Ford convert that IS heavily customized. It has a completely different frame with a modern high tech engine and transmission, the body has been "pie cut" sectioned to lower the front end and there are many areas that have been modified. It still can easily be identified as a 57 Ford convert, but if you study it, you realize how much work has been done to it. I hate to think how much money he has invested in the car, but I bet it is upwards of $100K! And I bet that less than $10K of that is in the paint job. A whole lot of metalwork and fabrication.
But a car that valuable is not something you drive very much. I think the Ford sits in the garage 99% of the time. I would rather have something that I dared to actually put some miles on. But to each, his own.
That Chevy looks like a really neat driver, although I would never want paint that gaudy myself. The retractable also looks like a nice car, but I have known a couple of people who had retractables, and they both said it was really hard to keep everything operating correctly. Lots of electrical components that had to work in the proper sequence and timing. A pretty tall order in pre-computer times.
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