[Land-speed] Overpriced Junk !

[RACE427 at aol.com]

Whatever you buy today as far as cars, even motorcycles, they are light years 
ahead of what we used to own.   I cannot see how anyone can justify spending 
40-100K for a fiberglass kit car which are not safe and built like garbage.  
To me it just looks like alot of Bling !!

    I met Caroll Shelby once and he even remarked as  what garbage the 
fiberglass replicas of his famed Cobra were.    At that time he stated that he had 
enough parts in stock to be able to build about 100 or so new all steel Cobras.

    The guy I work with, who claims he spent 40K on a Gibbons 37 Ford without 
correct VIN identification has a Mustang II front end,   need I say more?   
what junk that front end was back in the mid-late 70's !!

     If I had 40 -50K to spend on a performance car it would be a new 
Corvette, best bang for the buck.   The car has plenty of power, stops and turns 
better than anything else for that price.

     Back in 1968 a friend of mine owned a 38 Ford Coupe stuffed with a 371 
Olds, Corvette 4 spd and an Olds rear and the car was really nice.  He wanted $ 
1700.00 for it.  I was 15, that amount of money was impossible for me to 
earn.   I can only imagine what that all steel car would go for today.   Surely, 
fiberglass repro junk cannot be worth what they are asking.   But, yuppies will 
pay the price for anything !!!  LOL

     Just thinking out loud !!!  LOL

      Tony G    LI,NY


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