Hello from Germany

[DETON8R]

Originally Posted by Knaller

There is a market for classic german, british, italian....we love cars the same as You guys over there! But i, personally, dont like many of them. Especially classic german car owners. They dont like anything but their cars, dont like modifications, dont like anybody... I expect that You have this kind of people in the states also...

Welcome from another Chevy guy Stateside. You've allright in my book, my son and I are building a pro-touring Camaro, he drives a 87 Blazer with a 350, and after the Camaro Project we will turn our attention to a 1965 Volvo P1800, which I'm sure the Volvo purists will just loose their minds when we pull out the 1.8 liter 4 cylinder and drop in an American V8, with tubs for wide low prifile tires on billet rims, lowered 2 iniches all around, and a sound only a V8 would ever make (and no back seat any more).

There are more than a few of those type of car people you describe around here, who only want to see an original, pure vehicle, as would have been seen coming from the factory. They go car shows called a Concours d' Elegance, beautifully restored pieces of automotive history, many worth more money than I'll make in 10 years, some more than I'll make in a liftime, but they don't DRIVE them!!! What good is a car that doesn't go anywhere, except inside a closed trailer!!! I'm sure the people who designed these cars back in the day would shake their heads in disgust, realizing these classics almost never see the road the way thew were designed.

I don't have that problem. I go to the big Hot Rod Shows, (Good Guys) and belong to a Camaro Club (Camaro's Limited) and hit the local shows that occur on a periodic basis here in the area, especially in the late spring, througout the summer and into the fall. We love swapping whatever go fast parts work for the driver of the car. Hope you have a variety of car shows to go to out there.

I enjoy driving what I work on, making it the way I want it and driving it HARD. And living in the hills in California, I drive the cars I build, and make them more than they were when they came from the factory.

I love living in Northern California, the variety of wine is incredible. But I'll take a cold Bock to a bottle of wine any day of the week. You got me beet there!!!

Happy Hot Rodding

[SuperB70]

Welcome on board, Knaller!

Great looking toys you got there!!

Car tax rules are almost same in here (Finland), we pay by CO2 from '96 up.

We have alot of half ton and full ton trucks too


,Juhani

[Knaller]

Originally Posted by DETON8R

I don't have that problem. I go to the big Hot Rod Shows, (Good Guys) and belong to a Camaro Club (Camaro's Limited) and hit the local shows that occur on a periodic basis here in the area, especially in the late spring, througout the summer and into the fall. We love swapping whatever go fast parts work for the driver of the car. Hope you have a variety of car shows to go to out there.

I enjoy driving what I work on, making it the way I want it and driving it HARD. And living in the hills in California, I drive the cars I build, and make them more than they were when they came from the factory.

I love living in Northern California, the variety of wine is incredible. But I'll take a cold Bock to a bottle of wine any day of the week. You got me beet there!!!

Happy Hot Rodding

We have a lot shows during summer here. Some are better than others... Nothing to compare with Your shows, but i like them much. We have a cruise in every thursday just across the border in the netherlands, take a look of the cars You can see in europe if You like:
http://www.cruise-in.nl/engindex.html

I know what You say...making cars fast, corner better and having fun with them on windy roads is the way to go! A sunny day, smoking some jap bikes with the Harley or having fun with the wannabees in their fast and furious plastic cars friday nights....we have to work hard for our beer!

Hi Juhani!
We have this co2 BS too. But its only for new cars. If they were registered in the states before its ok.
You talked about the trucks...here is my daily. I stay with the black grey paint scheme....

[SuperB70]

Nice truck, let me guess: 2500?
Looks like original headlights/turn signals are on, you dont need to chance them to e-approved ones? We do, and sense there arent ones then we have to build them and build leveling systems on them too. Really BS from our goverment.

I drive 2001 Ford SD Crew Cap Dually...

[Knaller]

2500HD... good truck! Your Ford is one of the bigger ones, huh? A buddy has a new 2011 Raptor now but he is a little disappointed because my 2500 is the same width...
And yes, it has the stock headlights. We have the same bs with changing them, but if its 2000 and up You get a exceptional permission to run stock. With costs of course...same is for seat belts and glass. No amber running lights front and we have to change the rear turn signals to amber and add a fog rear light. We make some changes in the electric and put amber bulbs in the backup lights, then add a new backup light under the bumper. I do a lot of this conversions in the shop....steady money for me.