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Originally Posted by rzrektd
Hmmm since your being a smartie...
Are you going to lie about the vin swap too?
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I'm sorry, but I'm sick and tired of reading this post. Do yourself a favor...if you're going to have this "I have no Earthly idea what they're doing to my car" attitude, go hang out at Barret-Jackson with all the OTHER rich-snobs who claim they have no time to work on their cars. Congrats bud, all you learned out of all this is 50,000 left your bank account.
GRANTED, to be coming from your side of the fence. I understand. There is so much you can do until it needs to be done by professionals. I.E., my body is in the bodyshop. There's no way I'd even try to tackle bodywork on a car I'm trying to be show-quality. But the whole car?? pffff.
You say you don't have the technical abilities...well here's a TIP...it's called PICKING UP A WRENCH AND TAKING APART STUFF UNTIL YOU FIGURE OUT HOW TO PUT IT BACK TOGETHER. I didn't even know what a headliner was when I started. But you know what? I bought myself a Crescent tool set from costco, talked to LOTS of older guys who know how to work on cars...and took it from there. Now I know stuff about GTO's and Pontiacs comparable to people in their 40's and 50's!!!
You think you're going to outsmart guys who bust their knuckles like me every night in their garage just because you show them your RADIATOR CAP??? I'm not even going to go there.
I don't want to cause problems. But this is how I feel about cars like this. I'm a very active member in a local GTOAA chapter...but it's for this reason I stopped "restoring" my car. At first I wanted a bone stock 67 gto...but then I came to realize: Too many rich snobs who think their cars are all that when they mabye only had five minutes of work time clocked in on it. But then I also came to realize about a month after I joined that in general the guys who make GTO's however they want and make them go faster...handle better... They actually know what they are talking about, and know their cars inside and out!!! They put in the hours and time that the "restoration" side of the club do not!!! I'm sick and tired of how people LIBERALLY use restore on a car that is OBVIOUSLY NOT restored:
Webster's Dictionary Defination of a restoration
restore: To bring back to an original condition
THERE RIGHT IN BLACK AND WHITE...to restore something is to bring it back to it's original bone stock nuts-and-bolts configuration as it was new...I don't care if it's a goat or a Chevy or a Painting...if it isn't 100 percent JOHN-DELOREAN original...STOP SAYING IT'S RESTORED. To the word restored in a car is my biggest pet peeve!!! Since when is a car with 22 inch boyd coddington wheels and shaved door handles a restored car??? It drives me nuts. If you're making a car into something OTHER than stock, say something like "redoing" the car or "resto-mod" or something!! but please no more "restore!!!" (unless it truely is a factory restored 100 point car).
So also, stop saying your car is restored when it isn't!!! I.E. I say I'm redoing my car and when I'm done I'm going to put a big sign in my garage that'll say "THERE WILL BE NO RESTORING IN THIS GARAGE!!!"
Off my soap box, but I had to say it. I'm the next generation (18 years old) of our Pontiac hobby!!!