Don't hate me for this, but I LOVE IT: '68 Resto Mod.

[dodgecharger-fan]

68 looks very clean and smooth, not to sure on the interior though .

I agree. It might not be all the modern and custom touches - but just the colour choice and the amount of that one colour... When I look at it, I just get the sense of "toss in a paint bomb and slam the door."
Now, by no means am I saying that's the kind of work they do. Far from it, I believe. I'm saying with such a monotone treatment, that's the feeling I get when I look at it.

[Forza]

Oofta, those pics gave me a tingling sensation! Pretty amazing ride, I'll take 2!

[inedbleacrn9]

damn, real expensive to get that classic car.  but worth it

[Charger_Fan]

The day after I win the lottery, I'm callin' up those XV folks & sayin' "build me a '70, please!"

[Lizey]

ehhh give me a stock interior and id drive it

[69bronzeT5]

There is a guy here in Norway, with a Cuda, that lives close to a road course.

It's a green '70 right? AAR styling?

[Mike DC]

Nice... but I have yet to see any of their cars actually "DO" anything. There are no performance #'s posted, no acceleration or skidpad #'s, no slalom, braking... nothing. Show me some statistics and actual data and I'll start to buy into the hype.

Yeah, but anybody can slap on a set of HUGE sway bars & HUGE no-sidewall sticky tires, and produce great skidpad numbers. 



I mean, there's more to building a better chassis than the raw stats.  Everything about the XV suspension workover seems geared to a set of things that are much more difficult to measure with hard data.  Everybody that's climbed into an XV car seems to be pretty flabbergasted at how good of a car it is, even stacked next to modern sports cars. 


Granted, we're hearing magazine testers & customers for the most part, and so far that's not enough to know.  But even among that crowd, you can kind of tell when they're really impressed and when they're just doing a typical advertisement-by-review.  The XV cars have left plenty of impressed people and I have yet to hear of any significant gripes about the final result.

   
       

[Rolling_Thunder]

I agree somewhat - however I can understand that XV could build a combination of performance and luxury...    making compromises in performance for the sake of ride quality and such - but all I'm saying is if I was to drop $200,000 on a muscle car - I expect it to handle, stop, and accelerate like a $200,000 car...     I mean you dont buy a F430 for the gas mileage and you dont buy it for a soft ride....    you buy it for the image and the performance...       

I can appreciate the quality and craftsmanship that goes in to the XV cars but honestly I am not all that impressed considering the $$$

[Mike DC]

I agree about the money involved.   


You can get a very nice rotisserie-resto'd car for $40K or less, and the rest is mainly bolted on parts from XV.  Maybe charging $100K or something is within reason, particularly when you include their brainpower & testing invested and their name being officially on it.  A lot of other big-time performance car tuners/builders aren't any cheaper.  But I sure don't see $200K for an XV car by any stretch. 


(And I can't imagine that XV is throwing everything they remove from their raw material cars into the dumpster, either.  We're talking major assemblies that were just unbolted from some of the most desirable B/E-body cars.  Probably cars that were bought in pretty nice restored condition, too.  Do a couple dozen XV transformations, and the pile of this stuff in the back corner of their shop is gonna add up fast.)

 

[71bigblock]

Same as a few above, I really like it, except that interior.   

[Blakcharger440]

Well, I wonder how many Level 3 cars they have sold? Anybody mopar guys on this board own one? Or even know of somebody who owns one? 

[69chargerboy]

I like it too. Very cool. I'd do the same thing if I had a couple extra hundred thousand laying around....

[BIRD67]

Looks Okay, I'm not into resto-mods at all, but the one thing that I hate are how the wheels are so shallow, other than that and the ugly console, I think it is pretty cool..