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It's interesting on how a subject can be distorted into something it is not.
Some would rather see the car keep it's heritage, others would rather see it something else, or simply don't care. I simply do not see whining going on.
Wouldn't it be boring if we all thought alike?
Out of curiosity, has your buisness cloned any original hemi cars into a superbird or daytona?
Has anyone come to you requesting you take off all this stuff off my car that makes it look like a wedge with a handle?
Probably not.
Wouldn't you agree that such a request would be aberrant?
I think most of the detraction of what the owner has done fits in with the questions I've presented to you.

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While not "original" HEMI cars that I know of,.......I've had a good number of customers who have converted 69 Charger 500's into Daytonas, V code 70 RoadRunners into Birds,...along with an assortment of RT's, SE's,....and U coded cars, including a few sunroof cars, AC 4 spd cars,etc.....plus I converted/cloned/customized a lot of so-called "numbers" cars over the last 30+ years,....and I never "refused" work or the sale of parts based on the fact of what the customer was doing to their car, in fact I encourage others to do what they want with THEIR car, regardless of its "pedigree" or "heritage",....as I veiw an automobile as merely a machine, nothing more,....in fact I have a "numbers matching" Cuda in my shop undergoing a conversion to Shaker 440/6, Dana, etc

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...But lets face it if it was up for sale for 100K as is it would be on the WIW board with people saying it's worth 20k tops...

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I couldn't agree more! It's sad but true. If that car was fully restored to stock and was for sale for 50k Moparts members would have a field day knocking the owner for asking 50k because "it's the lowest valued car", "66/67 are not worth that much", "the owner should put down the crack pipe","he must think it's 2006", you get my drift. I personally would never have done that to any factory Hemi car, but that's just me...It's up to the current owner to do what he wants with his/her car.

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While not "original" HEMI cars that I know of,.......I've had a good number of customers who have converted 69 Charger 500's into Daytonas, V code 70 RoadRunners into Birds,...along with an assortment of RT's, SE's,....and U coded cars, including a few sunroof cars, AC 4 spd cars,etc.....plus I converted/cloned/customized a lot of so-called "numbers" cars over the last 30+ years,....and I never "refused" work or the sale of parts based on the fact of what the customer was doing to their car, in fact I encourage others to do what they want with THEIR car, regardless of its "pedigree" or "heritage",....as I veiw an automobile as merely a machine, nothing more,....in fact I have a "numbers matching" Cuda in my shop undergoing a conversion to Shaker 440/6, Dana, etc

Mike

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It's interesting on how a subject can be distorted into something it is not.
Some would rather see the car keep it's heritage, others would rather see it something else, or simply don't care. I simply do not see whining going on.
Wouldn't it be boring if we all thought alike?

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I bought my little boy a limited production diecast car when he was younger and paid good money for it and when I gave it to him I told him he needed to be very careful with it. It was hard to find but he was the one that saw a photo of it and wanted it. Usually I put them away in a safe place or display them on a shelf too high for him to get to when they are rare or cost more than an average diecast but he wanted it and he only got it with the exception that his next report card was a good one. He made the Honor Roll with all A's and one B so he earned it. Sure enough I came home from work one evening and he was still on the computer with the Photoshop program still making more decals and artwork to decorate his rare diecast car just the way he like it At first I was going to go off on him with......well with all of the stupid comments in this thread about how rare and how much it WAS worth and........but when he turned to me with this big smile and said "Hey dad look at how nice my car is now, just the way I wanted it to be" that was worth more than that piece of metal would ever be worth by a million.

He didn't burn his fingers, he didn't light up a cigarette, he didn't hurt anyone, he just did what made him happy. I have a bunch of diecast cars just sitting in boxes or on shelves not doing anything but collecting dust, my kid has a diecast car that he still enjoys the heck out of and "It's pretty cool, eh dad?".


MikeR

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Best post I've read in quite a while. Puts a new perspective on things...

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And as we learned from Bruce Springsteen, don't get caught on the wrong side of that line.

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"Down Here its Just Winners and Losers" Love Atlantic City, one of my favorites