Re: Packard wins Best of Show at Pebble Beach

Posted by Jim L. in OR On 2013/8/19 15:33:05

I guess I fall somewhere in the middle. I think it's great that someone can take a basket case and make a show car out of it. I do have a problem of the "restoration" to standards far and above the original production standards. When that happens I feel that the "exibit" ceases to be an automobile of a certain year and becomes a "new" car in the style of.... I mean if it's what fills your boots, you can take a 71 Pinto out of a field, spend a bank load of money "restoring" it to be the finest one on earth - but why? The only thing you're really doing is displaying how much money you can spend without letting the wife and kids starve - and provide the final winning evidence when those same wife and kids haul you before a Mental Competency Judge who will then send you off to the giggle farm.

Personally, I'd much rather see a well taken care of original that not only shows how it was made, but can tell the fascinating history of it's life.