This is one of the best written threads I've seen in a while. I fix up my car to my liking. Not anyone elses. If they don't like it I don't care. If they bash me, I don't care. Look at the well done show type cars that everyone bashes. When one of them pulls in to a meet or a show, where does everyone flock to? They immediately circle around that car. Why? Because it is bad ass. They may talk shit about it later but while they are graced with it's presence they admire it. Most of the time it is jealosy. If they had the money they would do it, but they dont. If they were to try, they would have a half assed car with shoddy cheap parts, crappy body work, primer cause the paint job is expensive,then guess what, then they fall into the category of TRUE RICER. Therefore it has became much easier to bash it and say how rice it is, to make their car look better.

PS: Also a lot of the "kids" have never seen a real true nicely done up all out car in real life. It is always more impressive to see it in person than on a forum or magazine where you can't truly see the quality, and appreciate the time and effort put into a car like that.