"Road Bee"???

[CDMBill]

So I looked again at the CC and the car gets worse. Its a customer car so its that guys choices: exhaust under a straight big bumper, was the rocker chrome short before the rear wheel opening? stock from Mother Mopar?, Super bee scoops, bleh. Side view is just wrong IMHO. Model is best part of cover shot. Wes Allison is at the absolute top of the car photo guys on the planet and that thing still looks like a bastard child, again IMHO. Two Meh's down.

[moparmaniac07]

And what I find funny are the hoses covered in the braided stainless with the blue and red anodized fittings that aren't real fittings. I swear, every single rubber hose under there had them on.

[moparmaniac07]

If that is what YOU want and like... Yes. It's your car... Nothing else matters...

Nah, it's how I got it, and it's covered with the damn hood most of the time, it doesn't really matter that much. I just find it funny how much this car fits that style, and I loved it just like that before I even knew it was a style. And when I bought it in '05, it had a '99 inspection sticker, so the guy that had it before me apparently wasn't aware what a '90s car was supposed to look like. Maybe I like the "style" so much because I was young and impressionable in the early '90s before this style completely faded away. Funny thing though, when I changed the plug wires, I put yellow ones back on. I didn't know there was any other color, and I like the T-handle valve cover bolts. Handy when you have to take the valve covers off, even though I don't do it often.

[Scott Liggett]

Similar to this?


Edit: For some reason, I can't get a bigger picture, and I guess I already changed the air cleaner lid here.

Except for that Optima battery.

[Deaf Bob]

Similar to this?


Edit: For some reason, I can't get a bigger picture, and I guess I already changed the air cleaner lid here.

If that is what YOU want and like... Yes. It's your car... Nothing else matters...

[moparmaniac07]

To be era correct. The engine needs either yellow or blue Accel wires. Gold anodized or chrome Morose air cleaner and valve covers with those T bar bolts. Though, Erson stuff was just as popular. Blackjack headers, Weiand intake, Holley carb.

Similar to this?


Edit: For some reason, I can't get a bigger picture, and I guess I already changed the air cleaner lid here.

[Deaf Bob]

I put the 57 together because it is what I had at the time and what came with it..
Era correctness be damned... I build for "Deaf Bob" comfort... How I want it to drive and handle..
Of course, I'm not advocating West Coast Mirrors on a Z-28...

[milner351]

(if I was single) I'd have more fun with the chick standing next to it.

I'm getting more and more tired of the magazine cars all the time.... unless they are really different, and very outside the box and inventive.

Anybody can throw money at a car and get a nice paint job and bolt on some shiney stuff.

I'd rather see write ups on cars running sub 11's and finishing drag week. Doc's car was written up, I'd like to see more like that.

[BBR]

It does not do a thing for me. The color, the wheels, the whole package...... meh.

That being said, 70 Road Runners are my favorite year for a RR and 69 Super Bee's are freakin' awesome (although I secretly like 70's better).

I guess I just subscribed to too many mopar mags over the years and have seen similar cars hashed over and over in them.

[>>>>head]

Ignoring the coin involved, I likely - "one of nones" are plain cool

[Thumpin455]

Who wants era correct? That is like driving around on bias ply tires in something you want to drive every day. Take the best of the past and meld it with today, do a good job of it and drive the wheels off the thing. The last thing I want to see is stink bug stances, tires sticking 4" out of the fenders, and big honkin Accel coils and yellow wires. No way would I ever do any of that. I would much sooner do what Stroppe did. That might be why I am not one of the factory correct kind of guys, just make it nice and keep what you like, chuck the rest.

[Scott Liggett]

To be era correct. The engine needs either yellow or blue Accel wires. Gold anodized or chrome Morose air cleaner and valve covers with those T bar bolts. Though, Erson stuff was just as popular. Blackjack headers, Weiand intake, Holley carb. Those who couldn't afford a Holley, kept the AFB.

Interiors were mostly stock back then. Benches, buckets, or those plastic Jaz buckets for weight savings. Stewart Warner and Sun Pro gauges were the most popular. Mostly, it was a tach on the column, or screwed to the top of the dash. The rest of the gauges were under the dash in a bezel. Some guys had the row of gauges out on the cowl vent in chromed buckets. The shifter was either the stock colunn shifter sometimes with a beer tap for a handle, or a pool ball. Or, they went with a B&M ratchet shifter.

The car road high on stock springs up front with tall skinnys. Out back, they either got jacked up with Gabriel Hyjackers air shocks, or spring shackles a foot long. Sometimes both. The biggest tires you could get without rubbing, though that didn't stock most guys. N50/15's were the biggest.

[Thumpin455]

I just see it differently, the interior doesnt have to be retro for me to like it. It could have two Jazz buckets in it and it would look cheesy, but those seats look comfortable, like something you could actually drive in if you are a fat guy like me. The engine bay doesnt need a ton of billet or chrome for me to like it, hell I paint aluminum intakes on my engines. Its not the valve covers I would have chosen, but they arent terrible even if they dont match the air cleaner. Its a nice blend of old and new, without the gaudy crap people use to put on their cars. I guess I dont need to see everything over the top or matching this and that. Maybe its because of where I grew up, what impressed me during that time, and what I liked about the cars I raced against or were owned by my friends.

[RaysnCayne]

everything thought out, well done, with attention to detail... Its only partly retro, just the wheels and valve covers.

See your conflicting review? How is "partly retro" well thought out? This is exactly what I'm saying; Pure Vision usually does well-thought-out and very well-executed builds. [Yes Scott, this wasn't a SEMA showstopper, but a solid $100-$150K was spent, I'm sure. Plenty enough for Steve to spend a little bit more time polishing up the engine bay.] This one starts off on-concept with the 80s/90s street machine vibe on the outside, but then it falls flat in the interior and especially the engine bay. So it's not well-thought-out.

It wouldnt look right in HOTROD, because those are all high end stuff like Trepanniers cars

Not so. They've featured many [SEMA-caliber] Pure Vision builds over the years. They're big fans of Steve's work too. But this wouldn't make Hot Rod b/c of the build strays from concept and then execution.

But I'm not bashing CC. And I'm not bashing the car, per se, it's very cool in many respects. I'm simply saying this one ain't Steve's best (purest) work.

[Thumpin455]

Just got the issue and.... I like it. The color is nice, its very well done, great build quality and workmanship, and it isnt a high end show car, its an incredibly nice driver. Honestly it is the way I want to build cars, everything thought out, well done, with attention to detail without using one off or trendy parts. About the only thing I dont like is how the bumpers disappear in the studio shots and the flat black on the trunk. The stance is dead nuts on to me.

Its only partly retro, just the wheels and valve covers. The thing says yes to me, but I like simple and tasteful. It wouldnt look right in HOTROD, because those are all high end stuff like Rumblefish or Trepanniers cars, stuff most of us could never afford nor build. This we could build, with enough patience and attention to detail, provided it wasnt a rusted chunk of cowl and roof section when it started.