Personally, I see nothing wrong with taking a 318 barracuda or challenger and doing something like this, it is far more interesting of an undertaking than someone cloning a hemi car or a six pack car (especially if they dont ackowledge it as a clone). I like the look some acheive with the lowering, bigger tires, modern gauges etc. I think both Rad Rides by Troy has done some amazing things to the cars they have built. And Pure Vision has made some incredible modernized muscle, they both used low option cars to do it with. I don't like the 22's but I like the look of 17's on those cars and personally I think I lean more towards Pure Vision because it seems something the common mechanically inclined person can acheive with their own car whereas Rad Rides cars are more engineering marvels. I consider Hammer, Poison Dart, and the Yellow Duster (furio's) are inspirations to what I want to do with the 72 swinger I picked up for $100. I like the two tone paint jobs that you see on Overhaulin, I could do without some of the graphics they add but the pin striping is a nice touch.
At the same time, I have a 72 challenger with a slant six and a three speed that I enjoy but that I am working on making a little updated to make it a more reliable daily driver. I am not changing it to a v-8 car because I feel I have seen to many slants and small block cars converted to big block cars, that doesn't mean I want to see another nicely done and documented clone it just means its not my prefernce. I would like to modernized the cars I have enough to make them reliable comfortable drivers. But the burning question is how much of this activity will continue with e-bodies if the concept challenger becomes a reality?
