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Title: too cool for words
Post by [joHnny]w_ an_h on May 23^rd, 2009 at 4:16pm

i just found this on youtube. if i win the lottery i'm gonna build one of these and i will drive it year round. 8-)

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Title: Re: too cool for words
Post by cavalier on May 23^rd, 2009 at 8:58pm

What! no mudguards, with all that money as well

Title: Re: too cool for words
Post by [joHnny]w_ an_h on May 24^th, 2009 at 11:37am

not one gearhead out there huh

Title: Re: too cool for words
Post by ClusterChuck on May 24^th, 2009 at 11:59am

I guess I am too much of an aficionado of the classic old cars. I breaks my heart to see one of those old classics abused (in my mind) by being made into a hot rod.

Just think how much more impressive, that old Packard would be, if it was restored to its original glory!

OR, I am just a grumpy old fart ...

Chuck

Title: Re: too cool for words
Post by [joHnny]w_ an_h on May 24^th, 2009 at 12:20pm

well allot of that stuff was more or less recycled. they took some old sitting out in the desert and breathed new life into it. the frame was fabricated. if you noticed the rear end was a quick change. the engine is a packard strait 8. if you think that guy is keeping an old nostalgic hobby alive. if you were a car, wouldn't you rather be running up and down the road rather than sitting in a field or a museum?

Title: Re: too cool for words
Post by ClusterChuck on May 24^th, 2009 at 12:49pm

-johnny- wrote on May 24^th, 2009 at 12:20pm:

sitting in a field or a museum?

LOL

I don't know which is more of a sin ... sitting out in a field or barn, or sitting, looking pretty, in some museum ... I like Jay Leno's thoughts on that: A car is meant to be driven! Jay drives all of his cars. They don't just sit there. They get USED!

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