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Originally Posted by panhead_pete
Hey Bill thanks for your honesty. Im a JJ, HAMB and member here and its three very different groups. Here things are a lot more polite and friendly with a real focus on restored old fords. Talk of chopping one up will always be a tough sell here. Having said that there are some of us that apprecaite both restored and rodded cars just as I love my very original 58 pan and my 65 pan which is going a long way from stock. Seems you'd save a good one which is great!  |
Pete here are my thoughts on the subject. We'll use bikes since I also love old Harleys and used to have a shop building vintage Triumphs as well. If I had a 50s panhead that was mostly stock and had a matching frame & engine I would feel obligated to restore it and that's what I would do. But.. if I had a frame that had already been previously chopped and was missing major components including the engine I wouldn't hesitate to install an aftermarket engine & trans and build a nice custom. Making something nice out of nothing is better than having it end up as a pile of random parts in my book. Hopefully other guys here will agree. If not I understand.