Originally posted by race495
Ah, its a freakin car. Tell him to throw a 408W in it and to hell with everyone.
Everytime I see cars in bubble wrap I want to kick THOSE people in the balls!
There are 4 kinds of car people:
1) Those that "hot rod" anything they own.
2) Those that want originality so much they are willing to drive with 4 wheel drum brakes and power nothing.
3) Those that have owned lots of cars but have never really done anything with them (but of course they have millions of stories about them)
4) Those that wish they were 1,2,or 3
Personally, if I want to see a beautiful, original example of a car I will go to a musuem.
I'm not saying bubble wrap the car and stick it in cold storage. The SVO was meant to be driven....driven hard by true enthusiasts. The whole mystique of the car is the unique body styling, suspension pieces, and what lays under the hood from the factory.
SVO's are hard enough to find as it is, and it would be nice to keep the remaining SVO's with their original powerplants. It is a shame to see one torn apart by someone who doesn't know what he has. I just don't see the point of trashing such a rare car when you could do a V8 swap into any other Mustang.
BTW, even with my SVO I fell into category 1. I was in the process of building the car for autocross when I was pretty much forced to sell her. I don't think the SVO should be kept bone stock and I believe there are plenty of shortcomings on the car (particularly in the suspension department). Ditching that wonderful stock powerplant for the common 302 is just sacrelige to me. 302's are like assholes, everyone has one. Put it in any other Mustang, but keep it out of the SVO.
