Why would I think of poser trying to pass his car off as something it's not?
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Why would I think of poser trying to pass his car off as something it's not?
Leave YOUR car the way YOU like it, hell, you could put snakes on YOUR lawnmower if you want, who cares what others think. Badges do not make a GT a GT or a Shelby a Shelby. They are just decorations.
Cobra emblem on the grille and 5.0 badges on the fenders sounds as bad to me as cobra emblems on a GT sounds to you. This is something your not getting, if I wanted a GT500 with a 5.4 or 5.8 with a tr6060 and stock colors I would have bought one. I DID NOT build the car for you or anybody else to drool over it because of the emblems on the side, I built it for me and only me. You think of a GT500 as something special when I think of it as another car. This early in it's life it's not special, it's just a car that has potential to be something special one day.
As for the grille your wrong. All the grilles that fit a GT500 bumper CORRECTLY all have the spot to put a cobra emblem. I searched did you? 13/14 GT's have a slightly different shape.
One last thing is the FGT was a dry sump 5.4 with a twin screw. You saying a GT500 came with the FGT engine is as bad a saying the Raptor has a FGT engine.
Why did you quote my post? Zero relevance to anything quoted.
Back to the misbadging comments- why stop at putting cobras on a GT? Why not put some CTS-V and Z06 emblems on too? I mean those are nice emblems, I like the way they look.
there you go comparing your GT to a GT500 again. Too bad since you have a good looking 5.0.
Why would I care coming from somebody that thinks I would put a badge on my car to impress someone else? If I didn't want you guys to know it was a GT I wouldn't of told you and nobody would ever know the difference.
Lol. Ok.
I know it's a good looking 5.0 and everything I've done to it including the emblems contribute to it. I already know how a lot of you are which is why I never shared the build with you guys and that's just too bad because every one of you would have enjoyed it. Some of you guys just don't deserve the time or free knowledge that I can give.
Go ahead. if you like the CTS-V oor Z06 emblems, by all means go right ahead, put 'em on. Hell, put both on your Mustang if you like. it's your car and your choice. That wouldn't be my first choice but I certainly wouldn't want to stand in your way of personalizing your car any way you like.
At first read I was gonna say never put SS badges on one thats not a SS. But now, Im gonna buy an old datsun b210 just to put porshe badges on it!
Thats pretty gangster man. I bet all the 911 Owner's club members will have a jacket waiting for you. According to a few of our members here, its not what the car is, its the intent in the owners heart.
I find it ironic.
The reality is, such a small percentage of people worldwide let alone in your hometown will actually know the difference between your faked badge car, and the real thing. The only thing an original badge does for you is tell you what it was new.
Nowadays, 79-04 cars are old, and even early gen GT500's are getting old. They're all mixed up, smashed, swapped, messed with, and hardly stock. When I walk up on a fox the last thing I think of is whether it was a factory V8 car. It just is whatever the owner made it to be now.
The only people who care about titles/vins are the ones who need the satisfaction at night knowing they are somehow more special than the other guys.
The reality is, such a small percentage of people worldwide let alone in your hometown will actually know the difference between your faked badge car, and the real thing. The only thing an original badge does for you is tell you what it was new.
Nowadays, 79-04 cars are old, and even early gen GT500's are getting old. They're all mixed up, smashed, swapped, messed with, and hardly stock. When I walk up on a fox the last thing I think of is whether it was a factory V8 car. It just is whatever the owner made it to be now.
The only people who care about titles/vins are the ones who need the satisfaction at night knowing they are somehow more special than the other guys.
You have the right to do whatever the hell you want to your car, I also have the right to not like it and think you're a tool.
Whatever tickles your pickle
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Bro, I remember when those Cobra Rangers hit the streets. I was like damn, getting that ladder to work will be done with a quickness! General contract during the day, gap bitches in Mexico at night.
#americandream
I honestly don't care. I bought the car for $1,600 because I like the new edge body style and the Bullitt is the closest to what I want the car to look like in the end.
Creating tributes/Clones are fine in my book. The problem comes when the badging is added to represent something it's not. Build the car you want . You like everything a Shelby is..fine. Modify the car and add everything BUT don't add the badges as it's still not a Shelby. When you represent something it's not, it's still dishonest and 95% of people will assume it's something it not. That I think is why people do it. Some call them posers or fakes and that is exactly what they are. Also to pile on the new Super Snakes from Shelby American are not Snakes. You have to be born a Snake to be a Super Snake.
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