Hey, I hardly ever leave anything stock either, unless it's (see my last post), which it usually isn't. My Newport was complete when I got her, but some things were either broken or worn out and she needed some mechanical work. I've always liked the way we used to modify, hot rod our cars back in the sixties and seventies, so, I'm going to try to build it the way I would have in the late seventies. The wheels and tires to my taste, the paint will be custom, but not anything extremely radical. The engine will have a few mods and the interior will get a couple of custom touches, like a custom console, again nothing radical.
When I said do it tastefully, what I really meant was, the world doesn't need a "School Bus Yellow" four door Imperial with a Daytona/Superbird rear wing and a snorkel scoop!
Since you are going to be doing a C-Body as a project, you can expect a couple of things;
1. When you finally do decide to sell your car, no matter what you did or didn't do to it and no matter how nice it is, it will never be worth more than $3500.
2. When you are at a Cruise Night or car show, you will inevitably overhear some moron say to his buddy that your car would make a good derby car! The saddest part is that he may be another "car guy", maybe even a non C-Body Mopar guy.
You can also expect to own and drive a comfortable, well built car that rides and handles quite well for a car of it's age and is every bit as nice, if not nicer, than other full-size cars of that era. In addition, you can expect people to come up to you at donut and fast food joints and tell you that they like your car, even though they have no idea what it is. Surprisingly, a lot of the people who tell you that they like your car will be kids and teenagers. Don't get me wrong, a lot of older people will tell you that they like it too, but I have found that most of the C-Body haters seem to be in the 40 to 70 age group.
So, build it the way you want it, drive it and enjoy it. I guarantee you will love it.
