Post car show depression

[elanmars]

Can you post more pictures of your car? Despite all your poo-pooing on it, I think it's way rad and the flat black is how I'm going to paint mine as soon as I get a chance to pick it up!!! So I'd like to see more for reference, thanks!!

[Hemidog]

it's just the cosmetics, your car is build to last, I'd take yours over a 100% stock restored one. For sure!

CB

mine's gonna be flat black soon aswell, and I can't wait!

[SFRT]

Can you post more pictures of your car? Despite all your poo-pooing on it, I think it's way rad and the flat black is how I'm going to paint mine as soon as I get a chance to pick it up!!! So I'd like to see more for reference, thanks!!

[mikepmcs]

Your car is AWESOME so quit your bellyachin'     

I want to see more of the cutouts that you posted elsewhere.  What brand are they anyway?  After seeing that video I'm really toying with the idea of installing them on my challenger.

[SFRT]

http://marylandspeed.com/dmh-low-profile-electric-cutouts-pair-dmhlpecut-p-1313.html

these are the ones I got. I had to reinforce the welds on them and get a better switch.

[BIRD67]

Dude, why the hell would you be embarassed to be in that!?! Any Charger is respected these days! Heck, there is this guy that brings a '73 Buick to all the car shows around here, and it is a PIECE! The top is made of bungie cords and blue tarps, but he doesn't car, neither should you! People will always try and "One-Up" each other, it's stupid, but your car is fine, hey, it's better than nothin dude!

[Ponch ®]

Man, that's a badass car that I would give my left nut for.

Having said that, I get what you mean. I wouldnt say its depressing, but certainly deflating. In my case, it's with my daily driver 08 Charger. If I'm at the gas station, the post office, or the grocery store, more often than not it's the most badass car there, and without fail I'll get complimented or someone will pull up next to me and say "nice car", etc. And I feel pretty good about it. Then I go to some of the SoCalLX meets - some of these guys have spent fortunes on custom paint jobs, rims, superchargers, etc.-  and all of a sudden my car is exposed as being the plainest one there. I get all deflated...and it usually doesnt go away until I get another compliment a few days later.

[Mike DC]

   

The musclecar hobby is full of "I drive it all the time" restored cars wearing front tires that are 10 or 15 years old.  IMHO this is the biggest weak spot in the whole hobby.  You can live within an hour's drive of literally hundreds of decent old cars and still go months without seeing one on the road. 





Anything driven is cool. 

Anything driven on days outside of sunny & temperate weather is awesome. 

Anything in a desirable bodystyle & drivetrain that gets driven in all weather is top of the heap IMHO. 

[Neal_J]

Halleluja!!

MIKE DC FOR PRESIDENT!!!~

[mikepmcs]

   

the heap

I got the "heap" portion down pat.



Thanks for the cutout link Frank.  Wow, 400 bones and you had to juice em up and get another switch.   I'm gonna put a set on the charger first I think but don't know if i'm gonna go for those.  Really like the design though and the way they install.....no extra sh#$ hanging out there like others  I've seen.  More research is needed before I dole it out as it's just a wanted wow factor.

v/r
Mike

[Mike DC]

Halleluja!!

MIKE DC FOR PRESIDENT!!!~

Thanks, heh, heh, heh . . . of course, this is all part of my 30-year-old elaborate plan to do just that.   

[69_500]

I don't see anything to be depressed about. I show up to shows in my rust bubbling car all the time. Its fun to be one of the ones that isn't completely restored. I had a blast as well when I had the 69 SE that you could practically see from one side of the car out to the other side by looking through the quarter panels. Odd thing is that every show I went to there was always a stack of notes on the car when I'd get back with offers to buy it.

[Finn]

Personally, I get bored of the pretty cars...
They're all restored using mostly the same parts and it just gets old to me.
Its the unfinished projects I love to see. I dug your charger from when I first saw a picture of it in your shop with a black BMW and a motorcycle by it. Looked tough as hell. Then I saw the video with the electronic cut outs . Ill still go watch and get the same huge grin on my face.
Matter of fact I'm going to go watch it now .

[mikepmcs]

Me too
Just so nobody has to search for it.  Courtesy of Dave F.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHKSXGM3a80

I saw the video with the electronic cut outs . Ill still go watch and get the same huge grin on my face.
Matter of fact I'm going to go watch it now .

[chargerrt]

Everybody has to start somewhere.  Not everybody can military press 250 pounds right off the bat.  Not everybody can run a mile in 6 minutes on their first-ever try.  The same goes with cars.  There's no reason to be ashamed of it 

[mikepmcs]

Not everybody can military press 250 pounds right off the bat.  Not everybody can run a mile in 6 minutes on their first-ever try. 

umm, yeah they can.

[chargerrt]

Not everybody can military press 250 pounds right off the bat.  Not everybody can run a mile in 6 minutes on their first-ever try. 

umm, yeah they can.

I mean, I could, but not EVERYBODY can