[Lowell W]

So, "Slick"...why are you still going by the name, "Excaliber" (sic), anyway?

I simply have more respect for the 'scratch builder' who goes HANDS ON and builds his car. I prefer a 'Rat Rod', with an a old Caddy engine built in someones garage over a "Boyd Coddington" super slick high dollar Deuce Coupe ANY DAY!

I couldn't agree with you more. And, let's see...you built your ERA from...what?

So Lowell when was the last time you saw a really 'accurate' to detail build of a replica?

I guess the short answer is: It's just not that important. One of the guys in our local (WCCC) club just built a gorgeous Kirkham. But-OH NO-he has the billet suspension parts. To me: BFD if it isn't "ACCURATE"; it's freakin' beautiful.

Old cars, old motorcycle restorations, replica cars, whatever: there's always someone there from the Originality Police trying to impress everyone with how much he knows. All they do is create an annoyance, ruin people's appreciation of whatever it is they're beholding and make themselves look like a$$holes.

Ya know what's more interesting to me? A car with patina. I saw a black ERA at Spring Fling a couple of years ago (didn't go last year or this year) that looked rode hard and put away wet and frankly, I probably spent more time looking at that car than any other.

Ya know something else? As an owner of one of the "cookie cutter" cars-BTW, weren't the originals built in a factory of some sort?-SSSSHHHH...I probably wouldn't know if it was accurate anyway!

And furthermore, I don't have my car to show off to other people and have some anal retentive, self-styled "expert" nitpick it to death; I have it to DRIVE!!!

Lowell