Dont you hate when people hack up rare cars?
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I love seeing rare cars hacked up. I think a stroker 455 Olds in a Hurst car or a 455 Buick in a Grand National or a 455 Super Duty in a Pontiac 2+2 would be great.
What I hate is when people buy a rare car and do nothing at all with other than brag about owning it or haul it back and forth to shows and never actually drive it. Pointless.
What I hate is when people buy a rare car and do nothing at all with other than brag about owning it or haul it back and forth to shows and never actually drive it. Pointless.
Yeah, but those examples retain the car's heritage. Hacking up a Somerset (only recently gaining popularity) in the name of a GN clone is in poor taste IMO. Then again, I would enjoy a BBB Somerset way more than an SBC GN clone, but I'm weird like that.
We know better than to look in your browser history...
For one it'd probably lead to being on various watchlists. For two, the nightmares....
But there's the rub...he did it as a business decision. Buy it for whatever price, use and abuse it and write off on his taxes. He surely couldn't have done it because he loved the car. You'll never convince me of that. And he lucked out. I recall some of the reviews when that car came out... they rolled the window up and the handle fell off in the guy's hand. On a brand new press car!!!
A girl I used to work with had one that her dad bought her new. It was a baby blue color. She nicknamed it "Singer" because she said it reminded her of her sewing machine when it was running. I said it probably had about the same power. I remember her starter went out and she had to wait over a MONTH for a new one to be imported. She had a lot of problems with hers. YU GO-----or you don't.
That Yugo was the cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology
or valuable. Every field that deals in "old stuff" has to contend with the folks that think just because they have something old and maybe rare that its suddenly worth a kajillion dollars. The antique radio field is rife with this. Yeah its old and rare simply because there aren't many left but I won't give you more than $20 for it because a) it doesn't work b) the wood is trash and c) its just not worth the $400 you're asking. Or its some crap late 60's/70's solid state console with an 8-track that nobody wants. I have a few of these in my shop I literally can't give away.
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Really nice old sets that actually are worth something cut up and the guts thrown away to make some shitty "shabby chic" faux-weathered wine rack or aquarium or whatever. Just like "well, that's gone forever, thanks, jerk!" Same with legit low number rare cars that ARE desirable. Once its cut up and the parts tossed in the bin, its gone forever. "More than the sum of its parts" etc.
The Yugo is kind of an interesting case. They were garbage from the start, they basically all fell apart or dissolved in rust. The survivors are "rare" but since they're still considered garbage with no aesthetic or functional value, and no aftermarket to speak of (I'm just guessing on that) literally nobody wants them except for a very few weird enthusiasts. rare =/= desirable =/= valuable
All of the above is true, but sometimes junk cars like the Yugo become collectible. An East German Trabant for example... Has a small but dedicated fanbase, just because of the novelty of owning a funky little car from a crazy communist regime that doesn't exist anymore.
I'm sure there are followers for any type of oddball car out there. As you mentioned, the East German Trabant for instance. There is actually a following for those built like sh*t cars. I wouldn't be at all surprised that there's a following for the Yugo as well. It's hard to believe that people bought these cars...
But of course, as the old adage goes, there's a seat for every *ss and an *ss for every seat.
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