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Well lets see...I owned one of the fastest muscle car ever built...but what would I know about such things..Year One was a little too mainstream/generic for my model...But YOU are the expert,you post on City Data.
Plus I was into muscle cars during the late 80's early 90's when you actually used NOS parts not repro crap.
Well lets see...I owned one of the fastest muscle car ever built...but what would I know about such things..Year One was a little too mainstream/generic for my model...But YOU are the expert,you post on City Data.
Plus I was into muscle cars during the late 80's early 90's when you actually used NOS parts not repro crap.
You know, when people on here feel the need to start bragging about what they own or have owned they start losing any credibility they may have had.
You know, when people on here feel the need to start bragging about what they own or have owned they start losing any credibility they may have had.
That's my opinion anyway.
That's retarded. People talk about what they owned/worked on/etc to put their statements into context. if you want facts, are you going to listen to someone with actual experience in the subject matter, or are you going to only listen to peole that have formed opinions based on hearsay?
I'm so tired of people that think opinion is more important than knowledge or experience, and anyone with actual expereince is just a know it all braggart that should not be listened to.
I always use my direct experience in ownership/working on cars/driving them on teh track or street to give context to my statements. I like cars, and have built a lot of them and raced a lot of them. Because I like cars, I've gone through a lot of them, as well. Well over a hundred owned in the last 30+ years. All shapes and sizes, nationalities, and genres. It's not bragging, it's simply giving context so you can understand WHY I say the things I do.
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Originally Posted by oz in SC
And when people have to post their cyber prowess regarding their intimate knowledge of a subject???
Linson was wrong,Year One DOES sell speed parts and DOES build cars....
But he was also right, they ARE a restoration parts company, not a tuner. They build cars for advertising, but it's not what their company is about. Never has been.
And guys, this is a forum. A forum is for giving and recieving information. If you don't want people that actually know what they are talking about and have experience to respond to you, stop using forums, because you are going to find that there ARE people out there that are intimately familiar with whatever suybject matter the forum is about. That's the purpose of forums.
Or do you expect that people that know about things ONLY talk to you in real life at their place of business, or hobby outlet?
Personally I LOVE it when I run across people with more experience than I have, as there's still so much to learn, even after 30+ years of immersion in this field (40+ years if you count when I started playing with and reading about cars as a child...).
That's retarded. People talk about what they owned/worked on/etc to put their statements into context. if you want facts, are you going to listen to someone with actual experience in the subject matter, or are you going to only listen to peole that have formed opinions based on hearsay?
I'm so tired of people that think opinion is more important than knowledge or experience, and anyone with actual expereince is just a know it all braggart that should not be listened to.
I always use my direct experience in ownership/working on cars/driving them on teh track or street to give context to my statements. I like cars, and have built a lot of them and raced a lot of them. Because I like cars, I've gone through a lot of them, as well. Well over a hundred owned in the last 30+ years. All shapes and sizes, nationalities, and genres. It's not bragging, it's simply giving context so you can understand WHY I say the things I do.
That's retarded? Classy statement.
There is a huge difference between someone with experience and someone who feels the need to throw out statements that come across as bragging.
After reading many of your posts it's obvious that you pretty much know what you're talking about.
And you said it for me. It's the one's who throw out numbers and opinions as if they know it all, when it's clear they're just repeating what they've read, that get to me.
As far as experience goes, lets just say you and I started at about the same time many years ago.
I must have missed where we posted our experience so as to know who is the REAL experts.
Here goes...
My first 'real' factory built muscle car was my Buick.
Before that we(the PPS club as we called ourselves..Primered piece of S..t Club) would build our cars from more plain jane models like a Le Mans instead of a GTO,a 327 Camaro instead of a big block,a 351C 2V 1971 Mach 1 instead of a 4V...that sort of thing.
We also actually drove and GASP....street raced our cars.
Linson's first post on this topic:
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Year One is ONLY a restoration parts company.
They are NOT a tuning and modification company.
Bu enough bitchiness,lets not be a bunch of women.
Was correct. He was responding to the post that said thsi:
"Year One is a tuning and modifying company."
Which is incorrect. It is not. They HAVE a catalog of hop up parts (the Speed Shop). They OWN Ghostworks Garage, which is a small part of the company that builds project cars to advertise their catalogs, and occasionally do a high profile customer car. But Ghostworks garage is not Year One, and is specifically separate. And now they ALSO have a division that builds these Trans Ams. But they are not modifying your car to do it, nor are they tuning your car. They are producing a very limited run of cars to their own design, and it's a very small part of their business model. They are, first and foremost, a restoration parts company with catalogs for many, many classic cars.
This is VASTLY different than a tuning and modifying shop that also sells some of their parts.
About the late '70's TA's, I disagree. Every town has a salvageable '77-'81 TA under a tarp somewhere that can be had for 2 g's or less. Not saying that the build will be cheap, but as far as the initial investment, those cars can be had.
Regarding a 69 Camaro, I'll forgive you this time, but in the future, I would appreciate it if you didn't act like I'm some ****ing *******.
2 g's or less might buy you a plain jane T/A with the 403 Olds and in any color of your choice...but I'm not talking about one of those special edition black and gold T/A's with the W72 400 cube engine. Those are the big money cars and I believe they usually sell north of $2k.
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