Super Dave I agree with you. What I should have said instead of malice is maybe hatefulness. I like the fact that we have differing opinions. I also appreciate your experience and opinions. What I don't like is when someone is personally insulted because of their age or amount of income, when they don't accept certain advice. I am 36. I have owned 6 mustangs, 1 cougar and 1 ranchero, my first being when I was 16. I have done the majority of the work myself on all my cars. I will be the first to say I am far from an expert, however, A lot of modifications I have done to my cars( that have all been safe road worthy daily drivers) were said by many "you can't or shouldn't do that because it's too hard or it's just not right to do that to such a nice car". I have always felt that when I forked over the cash it became mine to do as I pleased as long as it was safe on the road. For example, when I bought my current 65 fb. I looked for a solid body and frame. I knew it was to be a daily driver. I would never trust the lives of myself or my wife and 15 yr old daughter to almost 40 yr old parts and tech. So that means at the least new suspension and power disk brake conversion. New springs because 40 yr old springs are always shot if the car was driven at all. Now with that car the internal combustion engine already was a v8. But I am putting in an aod tranny anyhow and a nine inch rear. Rear springs needed changed anyway, 40 yr makes em sag. Basically, if a person is already planning on all that, there isn't a lot of difference in a I6 to v8 swap. In my opinion. But if someone wants to do something different to his car then I support their efforts. It is also a good learning experience for a youngster. One might say that it is just too expensive. What I find expensive is buying a new car and trading it in two years. I bought a two year old explorer for my wife. I paid 18,000. The original sticker was in the glove box. It was 35,900. That guy drove it 16000 miles and lost $18,000. I could give my mustang away and only lose 11,500. So in perspective I don't view it as too much money. But even at that, that is an individual decision to make. I hope you don't think I have hard feelings, because I don't. I am glad we don't all see eye to eye. This would be pretty boring if we did. I just don't see need to put someone down as a person. That's my 2 cents. As a side note. I did use this board to vent about an indivdual in the mustang world a couple months back and regretted it. I also publicly apoligized on this board to him a couple weeks back. So unfortunetly I don't always live up to my own standards as well as I should
the LACK of name-calling and profanity so common elsewhere. I offer input here in hopes of offering a balanced and thoughtful perspective, be it "yeah" or "neigh". Indeed, if we all agreed on everything, it would be a dull world and we'd all drive "green, four-door Corollas".
