Need Your Input for another Project Clone SSP

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Originally Posted by mpatte5

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.

Great point. Why spend time/money cloning a rarer car into a more common version? This makes no sense to me as good, fairly priced CHP resto candidates are relatively plentiful and if one wants a car from that agency, they should start with the correct base material and spend their resources making something that is authentic, considerably more desirable and most importantly will retain it's value. This is Car Restoration 101 stuff and it applies to SSPs too.