It is very interesting to hear the negative takes on the story and I thanks those who seem to understand why. Let me just give you the short version in the hopes it makes more sense. I summited Michael's car with out him knowing and he summited mine without knowing about. In our wildest dreams we did not have any idea what it is the exactly does or does not happen, I knew I wanted to do something for Mike and I guess he felt the same about my situation.
Mike probably has not talked about this, there were some things that went on during the taping, that I do not feel should have happened, but did, and I will not go into detail here, but they did put a little damper on the whole thing. Chip Foose however could not have been nicer, nor was the some 35 people who worked on the car. As I have said it was a once in a lifetime thing, compare it to winning the Lottery.
Recently I also have gotten a email from one of the producers of the show, telling me how wrong it is to want to sell the car, after what they went through. I have tried to look at this from all angles and I still come back to the same conclusion. I bought this Challenger to fix up, with my son. Mike in turn sold his Mustang, (that we had done together), to buy the Baracuda he now has.
I want to add, everything he did to the car, was pretty much done by him , with some help from some great people on this board. He did it, I had nothing to do with it.
When I did my car, it was kinda the same thing, no time to work on our projects together. I worked on mine when I could and Mike did the same. Then Overhaulin helped out by finishing my car. However the car idea was meant for me and my son to jump in our cars and head on down to the local hangout and make up for lost time. Getting to have a passion for something that your teenage, now young man, has a passion for and enjoying it together is a lost past time tradition. This car I now own, does not allow us to do that. It is a piece of art, that indeeds needs to be a "trailer queen". I want to be able to own a regular Mopar, nicely restored, to do what it was intended for, take for a cruise and look over at the next lane and see my son having a good time with his dad. Thats all, nothing else. As far as how we get there, I am not sure, but it will start with someone who thinks my Challenger should be in thier collection.
In closing, I am really a very old school person. I love tradition. I love when a man can talk to a man face to face, this internet stuff is a necessity, but I dont have to like it. I love the fact, that something I have had a passion for, Muscle cars, I have passed on to my son to keep this tradition going. Mike 0r Goody as he is called, is a very mature 19 year old. And he has a passion, for these cars like most of us here do. Do you want to encourage that so this continues, long after we have left this earth or do you feel it necessery to throw rocks just because I, not Mike, have made this desicion to sell, in my opinion , for a valid reason?
Dan Goodman
