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06-16-2010, 09:35 PM
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Yeah, I agree with the notion that each car is a beauty in the eye of its owner first. There will always be "by the numbers" guys, and if I had some special "numbers" car, maybe I'd be one too, but I don't, and I'm not.
If I had some giant stupid windfall of $ to spend on my Chevelle, I'd be bolting on everything I could find to make it go faster and handle better. 
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06-16-2010, 09:48 PM
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My 72 El Camino SS is completely stock except for the radio which had been changed before me and the Gaylord cover put on by me for traveling purposes. My wifes 72 Malibu vert was built to her specs ,non factory paint,bucket seats and console ,stereo with 12 disc cd in trunk, SS domed hood, mag wheels and we love it as well as most people that see it. My cars are for our personal enjoyment first ,but hopefully most others will also approve. Building numbers cars is not my thing as it is cost prohibited and I would ruin the value anyway because we drive our cars a lot.My 2 get driven probably 15000 miles a year as they are the most dependable of our fleet. The purists I know personally dont drive theirs except onto a trailer and off to the show field ,that is not why I spend a fortune on mine .I plan to drive mine forever .
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06-16-2010, 10:28 PM
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And so the question of drive or show is brought up.I have put almost 1200 miles on my car in 3 years.Never really thought I would have racked up thank many miles on him. I still enjoy looking and shining the most though.
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06-16-2010, 11:10 PM
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Mine is not numbers matching or a show car. I guess it's a nice driver. Hell, not the original block or trans.
We drive it as much as we can. 1200 in our first year. Hey... It's my baby. My dream car. It was built 2 days after I graduated high school. My boys bought it for me as a Chistmas present in 2008. Do I love my car? Yes. Do I love all your cars? Absolutely. Randy
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06-17-2010, 07:12 AM
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I have a friend that has an LS6 convertible fully restored with 6 miles on it ,but its pretty to look at. I would have to drive it ,Im not into waxing and looking .But that is just me ,not dissing anyone for enjoying their car in their own way.
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06-17-2010, 10:23 AM
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I think there are far more restored chevelles out there than most realize. The reason you see so many modified chevelles is because we arent as afraid to drive them. We dont have a high dollar restoration of a numbers matching valuable car to worry about some other jackass wrecking. My car was modified to beat hell when I bought it, thats what appealed to me, no guilt, no remorse for anything I wanted to do to it, and if it gets wrecked I fix it and move on without the guilt of "i wrecked an original car". Museums and collectors across the country all have very nice restored chevelles, guys like Gary and John and yourself all have very nice stock chevelles in your garages.
In 34 years I think their will still be a huge number of stock and/or restored chevelles sitting in these garages and museums, and a huge number of modified chevelles running around too. I like to see cars in all forms. Stock is fun for me to look at, being born in 1974 I wasnt there for the musclecars new, and I do remember riding around in some of my parents cars. So its fun for me to look at stock cars and compare them to what we have now, but for driving I prefer a little more fun under the hood and my 5 speed to get me down the highway with decent mileage and a sane rpm level. Jeff
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06-17-2010, 12:15 PM
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My 69 SS is a numbers match car along with a majority of the other parts, starter altenator,carb you get the idea. I'm in the proccess of building another engine so I can have some fun for now.If or when times get better and decide to do my frame off I will put it back to it's original state. In the mean time, when I finish the new engine and put the original in the corner, I will have fun pounding the hell out of it. Maybe put some aftermarket wheels on it for awhile too.
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06-17-2010, 09:13 PM
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Even with the restoration of my Chevelle, we saved alot of the parts because you never know. We are not gonna hoard them, we are going to hang onto them, maybe we will use them, or come across someone who needs/wants them. Not that they are in the best shape, but they are the "original" parts.
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