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Originally Posted by Vegas69
It certainly helps when you know the actual purpose of the car. You have more experience than most in this culture. I"ll be interested in what you end up with...
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Agree that knowing the main purpose of the car helps. I would love to build one car that fits all, but that's not reality. You and I have a seen some very nice builds that end up being used regularly on the track. It doesn't take much for all those purdy gaps that hours of expensive labor went into, to be totally gone. The track life is rough on cars. I'd love to have one...and might someday, but realizing how the car would be used 98% of the time called for a different approach.
I'd call my "experience", "exposure". Rebuilding the Bucket was a great start, but the biggest thing for me has been seeing, sitting/riding in cars with other guys. Seeing the crazyness called SEMA is good...and bad. My goal is for it to be nice, but not custom/SEMA nice. Like you said, it's more of the little things like the door closing without rattles or the windows going up and down smoothly. One big thing on my list is to block out as much of the road noise as possible and to install a decent sound system and not have it be obvious. The idea of a "Clean" interior is my goal. Very stock looking kicked up a notch. With the car being a driver, there will be a few bling items like a few stainless bolts and $500 tail lights. lol Now if it was a track car....all the money would go into motor and suspension.