Need Your Input for another Project Clone SSP

chp1982 · #1 07-13-2009, 05:00 PM

Take the 4cyl and make it into a NC clone, take the 4cyl drivetrain and make your FHP car a stock 4 banger, then turn the NC/CA SSP into an FHP car.

In all seriousness, I hope you enjoy your cars, just please keep the NC correct pieces for the next guy.

FHP#1357 · #2 07-13-2009, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by chp1982

Take the 4cyl and make it into a NC clone, take the 4cyl drivetrain and make your FHP car a stock 4 banger, then turn the NC/CA SSP into an FHP car.

In all seriousness, I hope you enjoy your cars, just please keep the NC correct pieces for the next guy.

lol, the NC is already painted black and white and Vitachrome decaled, Im sorry, I know how you feel about keeping it NC, but its in alot better hands and shape than it was two months ago, it was a getto race car/boom box w/ 3 batteries, 15 speakers, 3 amps,Macco painted, dozens of self tapping screws, marijuana seeds everywhere and yards of speaker wire. Now its a couple hundred pounds lighter and respectable again, and Im not done yet, it can always be resprayed NC style. Many of you guys have taken worse condition trashed and crashed SSP's with a foot in the scrap metal grave and turned them into beautiful show cars.

chp1982 · #3 07-13-2009, 11:29 PM

You're right, it can be restored many times over, in many different ways. Best of luck with it's completion.

NoDrama43 · #4 07-14-2009, 07:18 PM

I am not a fan of clowned cars

EXNODRAMANOTCH · #5 07-15-2009, 10:08 AM

I love my cloned SSP. The Georgia State Patrol paint scheme and graphics are much better looking than the Colorado State Patrol scheme that my SSP had. As long as one enjoys their SSP and do not try to pass it off as something that its not, who cares if its not exactly like it was when in service. Its retired and never going to be used again as it was originally intended. Restore it, drive it, show it, and enjoy it as you please (within the limits of the law of course). I'm glad that there are SSP purists that restore them to in-service specs too. Somebody may enjoy owning a plain white coupe with beehives on the doors and somebody else may like the same car done as a CHP. To each his own.

NoDrama43 · #6 07-15-2009, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by EXNODRAMANOTCH

To each his own.

I agree with that. I like them original. If I didn't like the beehives I wouldn't keep/buy the car.

ImEvil1 · #7 07-15-2009, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by NoDrama43

I agree with that. I like them original. If I didn't like the beehives I wouldn't keep/buy the car.

I don't. If someone wants to make a "fantasy" car or "clone", there are literally thousands of cars to choose from to do so. I don't have a problem, like Exdramanotch said, as long as it isn't passed off as something it isn't. However, to take a rare car, such as the CSP or NCHP mentioned in the thread, and clone it into something else destroys a little bit of the car's history (and identity).

Like you said, Jim. Buy what you want in the first place. Or, take one of the hundreds of non-SSP cars and make what you want.