"Josh Battles" <josh.lists@omg-stfu.com> wrote:
: On Thu, March 23, 2006 2:46 pm, jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
:>
:> classic vehicles to the scrap heap. Sure, some day maybe there
:> will be a big enough aftermarket to build a '68-70 style Charger
:> from scratch, but even then, there are only a finite number of
:> the original cars left, and smashing them into the ground only
:> makes the remaining vehicles that much less obtainable for those
:> of us who actually care about 'em... Oh well.
: Well, they're building body in white '69 Camaros now. It could only be a
: matter of time before we see some body in white Mopars.
Could be - that'd be nice. Although I seem to recall reading somewhere
that the people who are stamping the Camaro bodies are looking into doing
some other vehicles, and they were asked if they would consider doing a
Mopar E body and they turned the idea down flat - said there was no market
for it. (Yeah OK, clones are selling for $50K and up to $5 million for the
real deal, but there's no market for that car...) That might not be a
completely bad thing at this point though, I've heard that the quality of
the "new" '69 Camaros isn't quite there yet, and the prices are pretty
steep too, IMHO. Guess we'll just have to give 'em a few years and see
what happens.
:> Its not just jumping the General Lee, stuff like demolition
:> derbies, draining an import's engine of oil and blowing it up, etc.
:> I've never understood any of that sort of senseless destruction.
:> Seems a shame to just destroy something that obviously has some
:> life left in it. Maybe its because I'm cheap, maybe I'm a
:> sentimental fool, or perhaps I was dropped as a child, I dunno.
:> Whatever the case, it just doesn't seem right. It stings just
:> a little bit more though when its a classic Mopar on the pointed
:> end of the stick.
: Why do you stack timber 6 feet tall and douse it with gasoline at the BBQ?
: It's *always* fun to see stuff explode or go up in flames. You apparently
: just have more restraint than others in regards to the objects of your
: demolition.
I guess so. There's plenty of wood where that came from, with more
growing all the time. Its cool to watch a bonfire explode, but that
doesn't mean it'd be cool to watch somebody's house or a school bus
full of kids explode. Somewhere between those extremes is a line where
it's not fun to watch something explode, I guess I just reach that line
sooner than most people.
: Useable life is something of a conundrum though. I see the ricers that
: destroy old engines/cars just to do it as plain wasteful, however on the
: flipside... For the sake of argument, let's say you've got an old motor in
: your car that's going to be replaced with something you spent big dollars on.
: That old motor blows smoke and knocks anyway so it doesn't really have any
: value at this point besides a core charge or scrap metal. What's not fun
: about slapping a 400 shot on it to go out in a blaze of glory?
One man's trash is another man's treasure. Somebody else might be
glad to have that motor; donate it to a high school auto shop or save
it for a future project. If all else fails, it'd make a cool coffee
table. :-) No matter how far gone something might seem to be, I think
its probably got at least *some* redeeming value left, and it sure doesn't
deserve to be destroyed. I wish more people were of the same mindset;
especially the guys who were scrapping Cudas in the late 70s because they
"weren't worth anything". :-(
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