Posted on 10/31/2013 3:00:18 AM PDT by rickmichaels
You probably have fond memories of doing parking lot donuts with a Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda, watching Steve McQueen tear through the streets of San Francisco in a Mustang Fastback or pouring your blood, sweat and tears into restoring a ’68 Camaro inside and out. Whatever it may be, muscle cars were — and still are — a huge part of being a gearhead.
(Excerpt) Read more at driving.ca ...
A quarter of a million dollars for a revamped old Mustang? No wonder I’ve never heard of it.
I may be building a super 67 Camaro, already have an original. But I could build it for less than $110k retail.
Take the front end from a ‘69 Camaro, the taillights from a Challenger and slap them onto a ‘68 Mustang, and there you go, a derivative, cobbled up mess from an aesthetic standpoint. You’d think for the price there might be something more going on. And the name, Equus Bass? Is it named after a horse and a fish?
And to boot, its all Corvette underneath.
Thanks, but for my quarter million, I'll take the Ferrari.
Why buy a Picasso when you can own a forgery at twice the price?
I suspect that most here have seen "Overhaulin" and likely are regular fans of the show. When a person goes on a quiz show, like "The Price is Right" and wins, the get a 1099 from the show for the value of the prizes. Do the owners of the cars that are overhauled also get one? I mean, the value of some of those make-overs has to be will over $100k...that's a pretty steep tax bill for some of these folks to handle.
My favorite car of the era was the Chevelle Malibu SS 396. I never had one, nor could I afford it, but I spent a lot of time in French class daydreaming about it.
A total body-off restoration takes thousands of man-hours. Factor in those hours, and you’ll be into it for more than that.
Well, speaking of taxes, after visiting the website of this company and reading their ad copy, I have to say that the entire marketing approach makes me wonder how they were funded. I’m thinking Obama stash. They’re a little too proud of Detroit, for starters. The strained use of ultra deee-luxe words rings a little ghetto fabulous, too.
The commercial at the driving.ca site has to be the stupidest ad of all time. A cop pulls over a guy driving a hot Mustang look-alike. Cop looks in trunk and under hood. Gorgeous girl-friend in passenger seat plays with some mysterious high-tech toy. Copy cuffs guy, steals car, drives like a maniac through disgusting and unappealing bombed-out city streets of Detroit, and winds up at airport with private jets. Cop climbs stairs of jet while waiting for girl to join him. She gets out of car, displays totally killer bod in micro-mini dress, but she gets into driver’s seat and takes off. Cop is left on stairs of plane, bewildered that his plan to steal car and kidnap girl has failed. All backed up with evil sounding electronic soundtrack.
They may have a creative engineering team, but their marketing team is the worst ever.
The best I could say is it’s a radical departure from the standard car vid fare of gorgeous auto blasting down deserted mountain and seashore roads with people smiling and having a great time. But it is massively depressing. Yuck.
New Unibody tubs can make this literally a new car and a clone. But when does NIOSH, EPA, and all the alphabet soup groups step in and take away all their fun? They have done it with Harley's I think in California as well as busting the Late Boyd Coddington's chops about something a little more critical, i.e. serial /data plates etc.
The question begs when will the fundamental transformers fubar this too, since having fun with gasoline is probably verboten as we move to towards their Progressive Utopian "Paradise"...
Mine was a 69 Scrambler. Had one and it was the boss. Wish I still had it. What a sleeper it was.
More than likely treated as a gift. A donation of time/parts/labor to the recipient.
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