Mustang wagons

i aree with all of you on the aspect of cars modified stock or otherwise,,but i have always felt like this,,,i would not take a good decent car of relative value and worth and cut it up,,,,,and i,m not real big on worrying about it being worth a bazillions of tons of stupid money as such but a case in point was many years ago i remember goin to see a buddy at this shop and across the yard was a really cool 64 chevrolet ,,,chopped, cougar taillights and a bunch of other mods to it,,,,unfinished,,, in primer,,i saw pics of it years later and it was even better lookin in finished color,,,,,,BUT it was an SS impala,,,,now i would have done the same thing but maybe to a plain jane impala not an SS,,,,the value of the car really aint the point but showing constraint to do it to a lesser valueable car i reckon makes more sense to me and even more so now as a lot of these cars of all types get more scarce,,,,i shuddered at the two door edsel wagon mentioned here on the forum was potentially gonna get cut up now i definently would leave that one alone ,,,,it looks to good as is plus low production numbers,,,just plain rare and all thats just plain slap ass crazy to me,,,,

 

I'm with you on that. I'd rather take a real collectible and use better protectants to make it durable for a few more decades. Rust and fabric protectants, better grade primers and paints (UV fading stuff), etc.

But on lower-level models for project customs - free will! Let her rip as far as the imagination and the dollars let you.

Mine's not really a collectible (except to me), so adding a roof-mounted console and building a custom dash that I can always reverse (using same mounting points) works for me. But I wouldn't try to make it into a Fairmont Durango (El Camino type). I need the wagon body, not a showboat pickup.:

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This is part of the reason why my 58 Delray is getting modified. Nobody's beating down the door for a Delray 4-door post. It's a numbers car right now, but the block's got a small crack and even a numbers one only brings 8 grand or so in good condition. Modified ones are more fun and in the end, more valuable. If it were an impala, you better beleive it would be going back to bone-stock original.