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Originally Posted by jandaseve
I dont see anything wrong with taking say an old lemans, and making it into a gto clone, providing the engine and all are correct. I dont see anything wrong with upgrading body components if thats the look you like. Putting SS badges on a V6, SRT on a R/T, or shelby cobras on a GT, well thats all perpetrating IMO. Putting badges from other brands like the civic is completly ridiculous and makes the owner look like a moron.
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but you see, that's the same argument from the guy with the fake badge: "I don't see anything wrong with..."
and he's right. There's nothing "wrong" with it, except that you think that he's faking it by putting the wrong badge on it, and I think people who put on the body panels of a different car is also faking it. It's all to do with tolerance level - but I'm taking things to their natural conclusion.
You can't use the argument that the guy with the fake badges is faking it, but the one with the body panels of a higher model is not faking it - that's logically inconsistent. I'm logically consistent - to me they're all fake.
If you want to mod your car aesthetically, do what the bazillion legit businesses at SEMA do: buy/build a custom kit. Nothing wrong with that by anyone's book. No-one is then faking it - you'd be buying a "Galpin body kit" blah blah, and not "fooling people that your V6 is an SS".