CUSTOM

[78_oldcruiser]

i leave yall alone for a few mins and everything goes crazy kids....

on the jet engine part. i am trying to work out a way to put 1 on a 78-80 cutlass cruiser or custom cruiser to run at large drag strips for a 1 run show

 

[85Supreme]

what happened here?

 

[treed_cutlass]

The whole premise of this thread is a mis-used word.

A car that has been "customized" does not make a "custom" car.

People like to talk their cars up in order to sell them, compensate for their own shortcomings, or generally just to feel like a big shot. What they are doing is "modifying" something that already exists to their own tastes.

If people don't know what these words really mean, they toss them around because they sound cool to them, or heard someone else mistakenly using the word. There are examples of this all throughout society. Just let the slow-minded use whatever word they want.

The internet has only helped spread this English-destroying disease further. Look at all the unintuitive acronyms/abbreviations that people use in real life like "O-M-G" instead of "Oh My God". To type it is faster, yes, but to SAY it in real life, is no faster, and only demonstrates how little that person actually comprehends about why they either type or speak in a certain manner. These are the idiots that our soft society has allowed to exist and reproduce.

To call any mass-produced car "custom" is wrong. It isn't custom. You didn't have the car designed to your specifications. Bottom line. You may have "customized" it (which is a partially custom vehicle, tantamount to modified, the two words mean the same thing). It's like taking a size medium t-shirt from Walmart, scribbling on it with a felt pen, and calling it a custom shirt. It isn't. It's not sized for you, it wasn't designed for you, it was designed for a huge amount of people that will want that shirt, and to whom it will somewhat fit.

My whole point: The word custom has been bastardized to mean something it doesn't mean. Go ahead and use the word incorrectly if you like, you only make yourself look silly to people who actually speak English. Good luck with that.

 

[78_oldcruiser]

The whole premise of this thread is a mis-used word.

A car that has been "customized" does not make a "custom" car.

People like to talk their cars up in order to sell them, compensate for their own shortcomings, or generally just to feel like a big shot. What they are doing is "modifying" something that already exists to their own tastes.

If people don't know what these words really mean, they toss them around because they sound cool to them, or heard someone else mistakenly using the word. There are examples of this all throughout society. Just let the slow-minded use whatever word they want.

The internet has only helped spread this English-destroying disease further. Look at all the unintuitive acronyms/abbreviations that people use in real life like "O-M-G" instead of "Oh My God". To type it is faster, yes, but to SAY it in real life, is no faster, and only demonstrates how little that person actually comprehends about why they either type or speak in a certain manner. These are the idiots that our soft society has allowed to exist and reproduce.

To call any mass-produced car "custom" is wrong. It isn't custom. You didn't have the car designed to your specifications. Bottom line. You may have "customized" it (which is a partially custom vehicle, tantamount to modified, the two words mean the same thing). It's like taking a size medium t-shirt from Walmart, scribbling on it with a felt pen, and calling it a custom shirt. It isn't. It's not sized for you, it wasn't designed for you, it was designed for a huge amount of people that will want that shirt, and to whom it will somewhat fit.

My whole point: The word custom has been bastardized to mean something it doesn't mean. Go ahead and use the word incorrectly if you like, you only make yourself look silly to people who actually speak English. Good luck with that.

right on brother! thats what i was trying to get at and i am sure thats what crossbreed was trying to get at

 

[Evil_Regal]

sorry to prove you wrong treed, but if you are going the english route webster would beg to differ.
i.word.com/idictionary/custom
custom
Function: adjective
Date: 1830

1 : made or performed according to personal order
2 : specializing in custom work or operation <a custom tailor>

so would dictionary.com
dictionary.reference.com/browse/custom

adjective
12.
made specially for individual customers: custom shoes.
13.
dealing in things so made, or doing work to order: a custom tailor.

according to the english language as long as its a custom order (ie a custom harley paint job) or customized by or for you then it is custom.
/thread
(end thread for those that dont understand techno language lol)

 

[Silent viewer]

hate to even chime in again. so treed_cutlass at what point would you say a car becomes a "custom"? i have a car that is built/in the process of being built to exactly what i want it which includes pretty much everything on the car modified, read my signature for a quick description of my regal, literally nothing is stock about it but since i "copied" everyone elses ideas to create my own concept it is not a custom but customized? not trying to start a fight nor was i earlier but this doesnt make sense

 

[84cutlassjuggalo]

We could all argue , bicker and give our oppions till we're blue in the face about this and the people arguing about how the universe was made would agree befor us. So how about we come to the conclusion that wether or not a cars stock, modified lightly or heavily, custom or unique as long as its a gbody that runs and is kept out of the junk yard we shold be happy

 

[Silent viewer]

what exactly was the point of this thread then?

 

[mickey-d]

I really think this whole thing is a damn riot. Whoever started this(I can't remember)has well and truly started a sh*t storm of major proportions. But you know what? That's exactly what forums are for: COMMENTS, IDEAS, AND SUGGESTIONS, ALSO QUESTIONS. And no ones idea is any more important than another. You guys keep up the good work. Oh, by the way, the "tilt nose" on my Willys Coupe, I have decided that it's CUSTOM. I designed it, I created it, ergo, CUSTOM.
................mickey-d :lol: :lol:

 

[jrm81bu]

sorry to prove you wrong treed, but if you are going the english route webster would beg to differ.
i.word.com/idictionary/custom
custom
Function: adjective
Date: 1830

1 : made or performed according to personal order
2 : specializing in custom work or operation <a custom tailor>

so would dictionary.com
dictionary.reference.com/browse/custom

adjective
12.
made specially for individual customers: custom shoes.
13.
dealing in things so made, or doing work to order: a custom tailor.

according to the english language as long as its a custom order (ie a custom harley paint job) or customized by or for you then it is custom.
/thread
(end thread for those that dont understand techno language lol)

Yes and no, that's why everyone has a different view. Only part of the bike would be custom, not the entire bike, hence it would fall better under the category of "modified" as opposed to "custom". However everyone, as this thread has shown, will have a different opinion.

hate to even chime in again. so treed_cutlass at what point would you say a car becomes a "custom"? i have a car that is built/in the process of being built to exactly what i want it which includes pretty much everything on the car modified, read my signature for a quick description of my regal, literally nothing is stock about it but since i "copied" everyone elses ideas to create my own concept it is not a custom but customized? not trying to start a fight nor was i earlier but this doesnt make sense

Again you started with a mass produced product, then changed("modified") it. I chaged a lot of stuff on my car, but I see it as modified rather than a custom. Why does it matter? Yes I understand the idea of a misused word, it can be annoying. But is the label(which is bad enough if you really have to have a lablel) modified worse than custom.

And to(my opinion) be a total custom, it should be modified enough that it no longer resembles the original mass produced product.