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Richard, that's how I feel as well, I like stock cars, I like them not necessarily totally restored, thats why Miss Daisy is kept stock and will not be all gussied up and repainted, I like that she is over 50 and looks it, but mechanically she is very sound, but with Porsche bits, and her interior is functional, I have replaced front seat covers, only covers, the underneath horse hair is still there, I have recovered the dash, but she has her original dash metal underneath, a few holes in the dash metal, but stripped, POR15'd and repainted to keep the rust at bay, and recovered with same coloured vinyl.

Some have said I should get her repainted as she has some pitting on the bonnet, courtesy of the mice that must have lived in the rafters of the garage she sat in for 31 years, and a few blemishes from dents , but I like it. I am going to get some old nerf bars and take her bumpers off occasionally to make her look different for summer fun, but that's about it.

Brother In Law loves to get stock cars and then start modifying them, I just don't see the need.

Also we get a car and keep it for years, he swaps out cars evry two years or so, always has 5hit cars and complains that he can't afford a 'classic' like us, derr, if he stopped buying stock and spending 5hit loads modifying them, only to sell them cheaply for something else and start again, he could get a classic and spend some money making it worth more and keep it.
I am with ya Azzy. My 911 is mostly stock. The engine has not been touched. I did rebuild the suspension but only to replaced the worn out rubber bushings with new ER rubber bushings. "While I was in there" and everything was apart I did replace the obvious stuff, new ball joints and shocks, turbo tie-rods, rebuilt the steering rack, and rebuilt the calipers, and replaced the rotors and new pads, and a few other odds and ends. It was a fun experience. I have the Griffith's AC upgrades. That was easy to do and makes the car drivable in the summer heat. I need to get the leather seats redone.
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