Oh PLEASE, allow me to retort (I always wanted to use that line out of "Pulp Fiction"
I am 54-1/2 (it's like when you were "9-3/4" and wanted to be cloe to 10. I DON'T want to be 55!).
But seriously, my $.02 is that this is a hobby. Do WHATEVER makes you happy. There is nothing truly "historic" about these old trucks. There may be with a select one, or to an individual with a family history involving a certain truck. For the rest of us, they are mostly our pastimes. They're not Faberge eggs or Duncan-Phife tables, they were work trucks and mostly now they are not. If it gives you a charge and makes you feel like Farmer John to have a painted grill and load boards on the sides, do it. If it makes me feel like the John Milner character out of "American Grafitti" to put a 350/350 and billet this and that on mine, I'll do that. Simple.
Personally, I think real car guys LOVE cars. For the most part we don't care how they're done as long as the other guy has passion for it and exercises his vision well.
I wouldn't own a low rider or a tuner car but I do NOT believe is speaking ill of another man's ride anymore than I'd speak ill of his woman. I don't think "real" car guys tlk schit about nother guy's car. I have seen cars I thought showed a lot of thought, effort and excellent taste, albeit not MY taste.
Last edited by Dan in Pasadena; 08/16/2009 10:34 PM.
