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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22844 Location: UK

Seen in the car park at the Stars & Stripes do at Tatton Park. Fab looking car, but sacrilege doing this to a Mustang??

thoughts?

Rick.

Stuchamp · Guest

I don't know what's worse, the tires & wheels or the fender flares! Sad

That's actually mild compared to some of the things that I've seen done to Camaro's and Corvette's over here.

Uncle Joe · Guest

This guys turned Eleanor into ´Ell no!

Master-J · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Uppsala-Sweden

looks like a cute little car with wide racewheels and arches. And how many was made and sold... millions.... so why not make your very own Mustang.

Job-Rated · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1010 Location: Sugarbeet County

On the one hand, it seems to have been executed very well, as those arches blend nicely. There will always be someone going 'Wow!' & prepared to pay the asking price.

On the other hand, a perfectly good example of an increasingly rare classic has been butchered & the owner will never be forgiven! Laughing

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Dirty Habit · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 398 Location: West Midlands, UK

I love the box body Caprices of the eighties and remember seeing a car that had only 1700 mile from new and some kid, (I would guess) had DONKED it.
If it had been my son I would have hung him from the nearest tree. What I could not get over was why did he not pick up a reasonable car and donk that. Why do it to a showroom car?
What is a Donk Evil or Very Mad

This is a Donk !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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62rebel · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:33 am Post subject:

the blue fastback was well done and fairly mild LOOKING compared to the "tuner" or "donk" from our side of the pond. and there literally are millions of them, so modifying one that has no PEDIGREE isn't frowned on here. sacrilege? not in this case; but there are many that could be considered thusly.

Scotty · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 883

I could live with it for all the previous reasons given - but if it'd been one of an existing few then my response would have been a whole lot different.

And as for the "big wheel" improvements, I saw this on Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando a few years ago -