Misbadged - Help me Out
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Some of you are paying WAY more attention to what others choose to do with their cars. It's only a car, folks. Take a deep breath. Now let it out. In the end, getting pissed or offended because some dude does something to his car that bothers you personally is, well, a waste of your time. You can laugh at what someone else does and move on. Or shake your head and move on. But to actually get upset? I don't get it. Okay, now again, just take a deep breath. Let it out.
I've always looked @ fender wings as a " SAI S/S " conversion add on.
No wings on mine.
I've always looked @ aftermarket hoods, ( all of them ), as something you do because your blower won't fit under a stock hood, a reason beside cosmetics.
Stock hood on mine.
S/S rocker stripes are part of a S/S conversion, adding them to a non SAI conversion seems dishonest to me.
OEM rocker stripes on mine.
...................To my eye, less is usually plenty.
In a free society, one can express themselves as they see fit, there should be wrong !!
No wings on mine.
I've always looked @ aftermarket hoods, ( all of them ), as something you do because your blower won't fit under a stock hood, a reason beside cosmetics.
Stock hood on mine.
S/S rocker stripes are part of a S/S conversion, adding them to a non SAI conversion seems dishonest to me.
OEM rocker stripes on mine.
...................To my eye, less is usually plenty.
In a free society, one can express themselves as they see fit, there should be wrong !!
I wonder how many ‘57 Chevy Belairs with all the options started life as a 150 or a 210? Not too many people seem to get their panties in a knot about those clones.
This is exactly right. I used to be like that when I was younger. Throughout the years I've worked on so many cars I've realized they are only cars no matter what your working on. If you strip a mustang down to the unibody it's nothing more than a body in white ready to make it whatever you want.
I've owned and sold so many cars and trucks losing money every time. Eventually you have to start asking yourself why.
A tribute car is a different story, and they’re usually older muscle cars that are expensive if original but relatively easy to make from a standard model.
On your new GT500, the guy probably liked the SS styling and wanted to replicate that. Would be good to see pics.
I probably wouldn’t keep the badges or SS script, but I think the ‘side wings’ do look good and several places places like BPS make them without saying Super Snake. Ditto on the side stripe, as you could replace the SS script with GT500. I’d personally leave the SS over the top stripes as they look better than standard GT500.
Good luck on getting your new 500, throw some pics up here when you get her home.
-J
On your new GT500, the guy probably liked the SS styling and wanted to replicate that. Would be good to see pics.
I probably wouldn’t keep the badges or SS script, but I think the ‘side wings’ do look good and several places places like BPS make them without saying Super Snake. Ditto on the side stripe, as you could replace the SS script with GT500. I’d personally leave the SS over the top stripes as they look better than standard GT500.
Good luck on getting your new 500, throw some pics up here when you get her home.
-J
A tribute car, a clone, an aper, a recreation, call it what you will, it's all the same. someone has taken one car and made it look like something that it isn't. There are plenty of '99-04 Mustangs out there that look like 03-04 Cobras, so what? lots of 65-66 fastbacks made to look like GT350's so what? Most of us do something to personalize our rides, there are very few pure stock cors out there. Hell how many 03-04 Cobras arwe wearing the snake instead of the horse in the grill? Willing to bet more snakes than horses out there on that model. Someone out there soon will clone a 2020 GT500, so what? What about companies like Reveloution? They make great products, Love to have one myself if I could afford it and I am willing to bet there are a lot of clone haters out there that would be drooling over a Reveloution car if they could afford/justify one too.
As far as the 03-04 Cobra's go, adding the Cobra grill badge to.... wait for it.... a COBRA is a VASTLY different undertaking than taking a non-Cobra and doing the same.
At the core of it, to me, is the concept of deceit. Attempting to pass off to the world the notion that your car/truck/bus/motorcycle is something that it is not. Of course, the act of adding a higher level badge to a lower level car is harmless. Its the intent of gaining the accolade of owning a rarer, typically more powerful car from people who dont know your ride isnt as advertised that I take issue with.
I do not buy the idea that its a way for fans of a particular level of car that cant afford it to participate in the ownership experience. The "it looks cool" only holds so much water.
But by all means, if adding a Cobra to a non Cobra car, or SS badges to a classic Malibu or Z06/ZR1 badges to a base Corvette makes you feel like an owner of the genuine article, have fun.
Ill still think those people are posers.
I’m putting the SS style wings on my GT500 from BPS, but I am being deceitful, as they only go to 1000hp 
https://billetproshop.com/shop?olsPage=products/bps-black-anodized-fender-wings&page=2
Let’s see this fake snake OP
-J
https://billetproshop.com/shop?olsPage=products/bps-black-anodized-fender-wings&page=2
Let’s see this fake snake OP
-J
I’m putting the SS style wings on my GT500 from BPS, but I am being deceitful, as they only go to 1000hp
https://billetproshop.com/shop?olsPage=products/bps-black-anodized-fender-wings&page=2
Let’s see this fake snake OP
-J
I have the 800hp. Building the engine over the next couple of months so looking forward to “leveling up”
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Me and the wife got back with the "new car" in question that I asked about in Post#1
It is OUR belief, and always has been,
.........any false portrayal through the application of words, hieroglyphics, letters or symbols that falsely reflect a higher trim level, shall not be exercised in our household.
Wing badges and the rocker panel SS stripe will be removed
Here is the car in question
https://www.svtperformance.com/threads/my-2013-the-keeper.1184040/
It is OUR belief, and always has been,
.........any false portrayal through the application of words, hieroglyphics, letters or symbols that falsely reflect a higher trim level, shall not be exercised in our household.
Wing badges and the rocker panel SS stripe will be removed
Here is the car in question
https://www.svtperformance.com/threads/my-2013-the-keeper.1184040/
I have removed badges, decals, stickers trim from most of my vehicles. Debaged my fox, took the 5.0 badges off, does that mean I am trying to emulate a lower trim level? By op's logic that would be bad, I took the gt badges and lettering off my '01 Bullitt, does that mean I am lowering the value of all the V6 cars out there? I took the FX4 decalas off my F150, am I trying to convince others that I have a lower trim level truck? no. I just prefer the clean look, I am not trying to convince anyone else of anything. I suspect that others that add badges aren't trying to fool anyone, they just like the look those badges bring.
Nice car but the snakes got to go. Only Shelby’s should wear those Cobras. Put the 5.0 badges on and be proud of what you own. Fooling people that it’s a Shelby is lame.
Honestly I would have, but I had an issue with the grille. Since Ford molds the grille with the shape of the snake emblem you can't just remove it without cutting and remolding the grille. Anything you put over it 1 would have to be huge and 2 would simply look stupid.
I built the car for me and nobody else so the quality of the job I did will always come over anything you guys or anybody else have to say. IMO The 13/14 GT500 is easily the best looking S197 , but the GT got the better drivetrain. I built what I feel like Ford should have built.
In the end everybody has their thing. Some people will buy something because they either don't have the time or the skill and I have no issue with that. Then you have guys like me that can repair and paint a show quality car, build it to handle over 1000hp and then turn around and tune it the exact way you want it to drive.
You guys think I'm a poser for putting something as silly as an emblem on my car to make it look the way I want and I think you guys are posers because this hobby is about hot rodding and 90% of you can't do 10% of what I've done to my car. So the next time you guys take your car to the shop to have that CAI tuned that you just installed and are proud of I hope you think of me.
It's still a Bullitt (GT) regardless of what you do to it.
Ask yourself this:
If I sell it, would I advertise it as a Bullitt?
That doesn’t explain the cobras on the fenders. Other grills besides the Shelby grill will also work on your car. It’s not like you don’t have a choice. Like others have said I could care less about what people do to their cars, I just put this into the same category as the guy with a Honda Civic with BMW logos on it or the V6 mustangs with over the top stripes.
As far as the drivetrains go, the GT500s came with the Ford GT engine. This will forever cement this car as something special. You can make a 5.0 with 1000hp and it will still never have the notoriety as the 5.4L in the GT500. Again I think you need to focus on what you have and stop comparing it to something that it will never be.
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