I only made it through the first page.
It's like they've just discovered that an old F
M-M-M-might...be sorta kinda maybe but not really just don't tell anyone I bought it cool.
Now I totally understand why you guys started THIS forum.
Yeeesh!
Yeah, for a lot of guys out there the F/M/J's are cool, just in a kiss your cousin kinda cool. (Shhh, it was great! Just don't tell anyone!)
The idea is to get a car with a lot of looks. And they think it's about "this kinda cool" or that "kinda cool."
Hell, I remember sitting at the head of traffic in our '54 Ford more door when the motorcycle Pride Ride was coming through town. Tons of custom bikes, tons of nice cruisers, tons of fast crotch rockets. People were on the street as they were cruising past. Then someone saw my sitting there in the '54 and all eyes turned away from the bikes and people started looking at the car.
This is what the car looks like:
Floored me because it's nothing special. But I guess, since you don't see 'em everyday of the week, it gets attention.
People crack me up when they see it, too, as it sits there at the shop. The first thing out of their mouths is, "you mean it runs?" Like a champ. Pat the throttle, pull the choke, hit the key, and listen to her purr all day long. Holding 60# of oil pressure.
But there is the disparity. This is what my E-body looks like, right now:
The '54 is in a lot better shape, just needing some odds and ends to go back to daily driver status. But the first thing I get with the Barracuda is, "cool, what are you gonna do with it?"