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Originally Posted by xafalcongs
In many ways what you are doing is restomodding. A restomod is in many ways whatever you want it to be. You take something old and modify it into something better, safer, and a little (or a lot) more modern. All these cars we are seeong in the mags are well past the restomod stage. The Ring Brothers cars are NOT restomods and neither are Chip Fooses cars. Those cars have move into the realm of Street Rod. The cars have gone the way of the 27 T, 32 Lo-Boy, 36 Vickie, 56 Effie, etc.,....
As for the Rambler comment, if you want to be different then drop in a 512ci stroker tall deck 401 because too many guys have already dropped in Hemis, SBCs, and EFI 5.0s into many a AMC. Heck if you really want to be different build a 67-72 2dr hardtop Ambassador or 71-73 2dr hardtop Matador (not the ugly 74+ Matador Coupe)....those cars are few and far between.
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*Uh...I just googled the Ring Bros as I'd never heard of them. You see, I don't read mainstream hot rod mags or watch 'car' TV. The interest in curent trends just isn't there My reads are Old Skool Rodz and Car Culture Deluxe, occasionally R&C along with the oval track mags when they feature east coast dirt modified stuff. On the RB's site, I was faced with "billet"..Uggg!, hood hinges for over 600 bux (!) and one of the ugliest Mustangs that I've ever seen. Even though my best friend's last name is Foose, a distant relative who worked for Sam (a noted Kustomizer in his day) as a sand boy in the '80s, my tastes fall far from Chip's stuff. I like old cars which "seem" old built with homebrewed or junkyard parts that are a blast to drive. My taste run more toward Bellflower tips, Chrome reversed wheels with tires with plenty of sidewall, blue dots, tube grilles (or homemade) if I'm going to spend a few dollars.
Yeah, I'm a strange older broad but I've been rodding and racing since the late '60s. You ought to see what I just cut up for use as a a body on my modern DIRT modified...
When I get the panels fitted, I'll show everyone.
Jan...different strokes
