Butchered classic car thread

I may be in the minority but I feel that "rodders" and "modifiers" often butcher a classic car instead of preserving it. So, I thought I would start a thread of classic cars that have been butchered by these groups in the same way that there are terrible replicas that butchered the look of classic cars.

Here's the first one. Simply horrible.

1973 De Tomaso Other | eBay
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Wow! A DeTomaso Shelby Gallardo!

 

At least it's not too far gone to be returned to original! I hope??

 

Wow that's terrible...

 

They were doing ok till they got to the front

 

okay thats exceptionally bad.

 

I think my least favorite category of car is a restomod. You take something old and add modern whatever to it, which turns it in to something completely goofy looking.

And the car TheMayor posted is god awful.

 

Yikes. They can look good with a deep spoiler and rear wing.
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Have to agree on both counts. Nothing worse than a 60s or 70s classic sitting on 30 or 40 section low profile rubber and 18" wheels.

 

OOOOOooohhhhh - The rare Smellby Pantardo.

 

Not a fan of pro-touring, eh?

Me neither.

 

I had to look up the term so thanks for schooling me. Indeed that is the look I'm not a fan of.

We have a "pro touring" purple and black (metallic flake) Pantera two villages over from me. One has to admire the restoration work but the aesthetic result is not to my taste... still looks a 1000% better than the thing at top of this thread [emoji23]

 

So I finally clicked on the ad...







They want $225,000 for that thing? [emoji50]

 

I think this belongs here...

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https://hymanltd.com/vehicles/5748-1978-ferrari-308-gts-by-george-barris/

 

you are not a minority!. Actually it is not about who did this, it is who will pay money to buy that! the buyer should demand a return to the proper design. It is hard to beleive anyone who appreciate the classic lines of a Pantera would even speak with the owner of that arbotion

 

How about "Breadvan", Nembos or Thomassimas ? All started as beautiful specimens, but for whatever reasons were "butchered" to aestheticly something less.
Even "conversion" Daytonas Spyders, et al. are/were in a sense subjected to "butchery", no matter how close to accurate or who did them.

Then again, what do I know ? I thought this was a good solution for previously (early '50s) butchered pile of body parts and a chassis with missing running gear and other parts I bought 30 years ago. Heck, tens of thousands of miles later, I still think it is/was a GREAT idea !
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Everyone seems to adjust Panteras, and although the frhomage du 430 on Ol Yeller posted above is questionable, I am a fan of the wing free sequential backside. Restomods are fine if the innards are improvements over the originals, odd rim/tire selections not withstanding.

 

A mildly modified Merc 450SLC
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This DB6 was crasched mid 80s. I don't know how valuable the car was at that time, but the owner decided to modify it to a "track toy". Widend, outside filler caps, new tail, ducts etc. Looks fairly good.
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Pardon my ignorance, but whats the difference between a restomod, and an older car fitted with modern engine, driveline, brakes, that still retains almost exactly the same lines as yesteryear?

 

Depends on who's interpreting... I'd say that there's no difference (based on your post).

However, some here think that a restomod is an older car fitted bastardized body-work.