Diggin on this Charger!!!

Neat stuff.

I do not like the door handles though. They chew up a lot of real estate and the opening they have sits too low on the panel. It looks wonky.
 
Nice enough car...but I have to disagree with his very first statement.....

I am building a 1970 Charger, fully modernized, from the ground-up. The name of the car is "Punishment."
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Ummm no your not....you are writing big checks to a company that is building it for you.
 
thrashingcows said:
Nice enough car...but I have to disagree with his very first statement.....



Ummm no your not....you are writing big checks to a company that is building it for you.
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:) That's what most guys do, and then let on that they did the actual building... Those guys have tremendous handstrength and penmanship. :)

Pretty sweet. Lots and lots of work there, wonder how many times it's been together and then apart?

Not a big fan of the shaved drip rails or the door handles (I would have shaved the handles completely) and those taillights scream "I was lifted from a Challenger!". I like the artist's concept version better.

Still a pretty sweet ride, though.
 
I wish I had the funds to build the car he's paying for :D

Mine would be a twin turbo, MPFI 440/496 stroker, like the one Jass conceptualized for me. Idles at 750 RPM, gets around 18mpg and lays down 1150 ftlbs of torque.
 
i like the tail...i like teh shave..lose the door handles...overall i dont mind it..but i would have never bothered to use vette crap under it...why pay tripple or more for stuff that can be had for less that out performs?
 
Not a fan. Let classic styling stand on its own. Body-colored bumpers and blacked-out grilles on cars that never were available that way scream to me, "We were too cheap to rechrome that stuff, but we had this Krylon..." I also agree about the 'Vette stuff, which was designed for a much lighter car with a different roll center, lower center of gravity, and load balance. I guess that's all academic, though, since this atrocity will spend its entire "driving" life rolling on and off of trailers.
 
Dr.Jass said:
Body-colored bumpers and blacked-out grilles
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That's the other thing that bothered me about the car. Not the painted part, that doesn't bug me even though I like chrome much better... the bumpers fit way too tight to the body.
Sometimes, I think, some things don't need improving.
 
:nodda: Don't like the car. Not one little bit. Too many things to list just......wrong.

Gotta say tho - I don't take as much issue with guys paying someone to build their rides for them as some of you do. Matter of fact, I don't think there is anything wrong with it at all. Lack of mechanical ability should not preclude enjoyment of the hobby IMO..... And frankly most of the people who can actually afford this stupid expensive hobby are working 60 - 70 - 100 hour weeks maintaining their businesses. The fact that they choose the car hobby to spend their money on should be viewed as a positive thing, because it not only helps keep the hobby alive, it provides opportunity for those who want to make their living creating hot rods and restoring old cars.

Matter of fact, after burning up an evening rolling around the garage floor changing out the trans pan in the Demon, and dealing with the pain that it is causing my broken body this morning, I'm pretty sure that if I was ever able to afford to do another one, someone else would be doing most of the work for me. Not that I don't enjoy it - but frankly I don't have the time or physical strength for it anymore, so if it were up to me to finish a project these days, it simply would not get done. Hell it's over a year since I last washed the Demon....and I don't think it even got an oil change last year....

I also don't really think that guys saying they are "building" a car means they are trying to take credit where it's not due. It's just a figure of speech - like when people say they are "building" a new house. Doesn't mean that they are swinging hammers themselves....we all know that it's generally contractors doing the work.
 
Not A Duster said:
I also don't really think that guys saying they are "building" a car means they are trying to take credit where it's not due. It's just a figure of speech - like when people say they are "building" a new house. Doesn't mean that they are swinging hammers themselves....we all know that it's generally contractors doing the work.
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That's where my issues are, but it's more of an irritant than an issue per se.
I've seen so many cheque writers stand up, thump their chests and take credit for everything on their rides, giving the very strong impression to anyone that doesn't know better that they did it all themselves.
I've stood next to a customer while he did the same thing to a bystander, after bitching and moaning to me about how much I charged him for the paint work.
I just figure, like most things in life, others will do anything they can to make themselves look better than they really are.
I really don't have time for people like that.

But you're right, without the cheque writers we'd be out of work.

I'm not too keen on the colour of that Charger either - one of my least liked colours is Charcoal/dark grey metallic.
 
mmmmm..... yeah - I've met those guys myself.

But I've also seen a lot of guys with fat wallets use the fact that they had "such and such" shop build the car as a source of pride, because frankly, most of us cannot afford a professionally restored ride from a name-brand shop.

I still don't think you can always assume because someone says they are "building" a car, that they are trying to take undue credit.
 
ima twist this a bit..i know a check writer..but they guy was in the shop along side the car every step of the way..every chance the shop let him help he did...not out of trying to save money but to see that the mods and tweaks were done EXACTLY how he invisioned them


the real douchebags are the ones you look at and clearly they put not thought one into the car and bought it not built it even if they sent it to a shop and picked the color but claim its all theire work
 
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