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You weren't really discussing things, you just posted a pretty straight forward strong opinion and stepped on some toes in the process.

You wrote this in the backdating thread...
"Backdating is the act of taking a perfectly good car and chopping it up to make it look older, to satisfy one's pretentious insecurity. Just my opinion. But unless you're wiling to spend 100k, the car will never be "right", and even then you'll devalue the car and eat the investment."

and...
"have some respect for a fine automobile. It will be around longer than you'll live; don't butcher it because you can't afford the car you really want. People are just going to laugh at a bad backdate/update job anyway, and like it or not 99%+ are bad."

and...
"Drinkin' the Koolaid and laughin' all day long at goofball cars."

and...
"Most buyers are chumps. Not so long ago they were buying slantnose conversions too - chopping up original cars is never the way to go. If you don't like it, sell it and buy something else. Hell, get a kit car or something."

So, you pretty much gave us your opinion of backdating and slammed the backdaters pretty hard in the process. Tramped on some toes and got called a troll. Now you ask if its trolling over here. I'll have to say yes. You just jumped right in and stirred up the pot. Just my opinion
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