matching numbers!

[biomedtechguy]

I don't knock the "numbers matching" or "restored to original specification" guys. The SAME reason that I give for what I do to MY CAR (whatever I want to) works for them too. You buy it, do what you want to with your property. I do understand that if you have an "original" numbers matching car that many people will say it should stay that way, I get that, but it is the owner's decision. There are 2 guys in my club with 70 Roadrunners, and the cars are cleaner on the underside than my car's trunk deck (lol). Not original motor in one (wasn't a HEMI) but that is how they like to roll. I, otoh, am THRILLED that my car is a REAL V code car, but like many 440 six bbl cars (and Hemis too) the original motor probably wound up scattered on the last 100 feet of a quarter mile somewhere. That made mine $4X,*** instead of $6X,*** + so I could afford it, and I have NO second thoughts about modifying it. The "original" cars are great benchmarks and reference tools for what a car is "supposed" to have and like a 3D reference manual. I like to drive, race, and run the $hit out of my car too. If it was a numbers matching V code, I wouldn't drive it the same way, and I wouldn't enjoy it as much.