Need Your Input for another Project Clone SSP

NoDrama43 · #1 07-14-2009, 07:18 PM

I am not a fan of clowned cars

EXNODRAMANOTCH · #2 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 · #3 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 · #4 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.

NoDrama43 · #5 07-15-2009, 03:30 PM

I agree with "to each their own" meaning it is their car and therefore they can do what they want with it. That does not mean I agree with what is actually done to the car. I see no purpose in cloning a car and turning it into something it wasn't. I personaly would get no satisfaction or enjoyment because in the back of my mind I would always know it is a fake. I would feel even worse knowing I took a rare SSP car and made something else out of it. But that is just my opinion.......and others think otherwise.

On the other hand, I would love to have a 66 GT 350, but I would want a clone so I could drive the crap outa it and not worry about how much it was worth. But I would NEVER take an original 66 GT 350 that was red with a four speed, and make it blue with an automatic.... Does any of this make sense????

CNTLOSE · #6 07-15-2009, 06:28 PM

Regardless of what the car has been painted, it can always be painted back. 10 years from now someone else may own it and take it back to it's original agency...and this thread has added to the SSP's history. For what little time I have been involved in the SSP world I find each SSP story intresting. How one year a car shows up for sale, is purchased, restored or whatever, sold again, and somehow because of dedicated people keeping track of the history, a new owner can be informed of what all his/her new SSP has been threw. That car will now always be remembered as being a rare NC car, transformed into a CHP, and so on.

As long as it does not get mini-tubbed, cut up, caged, or whatever else one can do to race one does it matter? Like the owner stated, he did save it from being a ghetto sled so we should take some satisfaction in that. (IMO)

MOstang · #7 07-15-2009, 08:16 PM

As much as I'm in favor of folks adding their own "flavor" to car car, I have to agree with everything Mike & Jim have said up above. While it's true a car can always be repainted and returned to what it originally was (NCHP in case of most of this discussion), I would have concern that won't happen given the amount of time and/or $$$ that will go into this project now and the additional time/$$$ that would be involved later in returning car back to original an NCHP. For instance unless you have all the talent to do the paint yourself, having car stripped and repainted - and done right - is expensive endeavor...as I can attest since I'm going through it with my 93 Missouri State Highway Patrol SSP. Either way the owners own decision but since topic was raised just adding my $0.02.