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Brian. It has to make you smile that the car originated out of your creative mind. It is has its own style as most of your cars that I have seen & followed. Another builder may make a wild range of changes but clearly is driving around in a roadster that is 100% your brainchild. All the changes still are riding around in the body and a foundation that you created that is unlike any other. The essence of the body design cannot be concealed no matter how many changes they make. There has to be some warmth in the thought that your car vision was highly valued for someone to invest a small fortune to extend it is life for a long time to come. It is kind of like another visionary. Henry Ford could not have forseen that his cars would be modified and reincarnated as hotrods to be still running around 90+ years after he built them.

 

Well said

 

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Thanks! I don't "hate" it, but as I said to my friend Bill McGuire (who pitched the car to Frieberger and wrote the feature when he was at "Hot Rod"), "It's like having one of your kids come home with a tramp stamp and blue hair.". If I could find another '36 Ford Tudor so rusty it broke in two trying to load it, leaving the back half of the frame in the dirt, I could maybe build you one. I got the idea from a "Sketchpad" piece in, as I recall, "Rod & Custom" ***led, "Build a Roadster from a Cheap Sedan", and I credited that artwork (which I have somewhere) for the idea. Then at the Nats North in Kalamazoo the next year some guy had a late '30's Studebaker he'd done in a similar way. He even used a Caddy 472! I had the one I'd pulled from our '48 Pontiac convert (I swapped an LT1), and I was so impressed I stopped at my neighbors house on the way home from the show and bought the body for $300. There are very few new ideas.

 

It doesn't sound so bad if you just put "only " in front of the price

 

Definitely your build and the essence of the car remains the same. I don't get the negativity. Anyone REALLY think the car looks like **** now? I sure as hell would drive it.

 

I’d drive it, but I’d feel like a douche-bag spending $131K to have the privilege! [emoji23]


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Oh, I agree with that!....from another Brian!

 

Well anyway, I still like the car but not the interior.