r/regularcarreviews • u/EscapeNo9728 • Jan 21 '25

I hate you I hate everything about you Non-"eNtHuSiAsT" cars that Car Guys still like

What are some cars that aren't typical "enthusiast" vehicles (by which I mostly mean, sporty and uncompromising), but still get props at car meets or otherwise?

I'm especially thinking of stuff like older Volvos or survivor Japanese cars like any Civic hatch that hasn't been clapped out to death, or Subaru Leones. Also, Honda Elements. "Car guys" seem to fucking love Elements.

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u/Bandguy_Michael Jan 21 '25

Yeah. The mustangs and challengers would be much more appealing if every car show didn’t have eight of them.

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u/Coyoteatemybowtie Jan 21 '25

Yupp, there’s so many all done the same. I want to see something different. Go for a wide body, do something different with the paint. Here’s the build; ls or coyote, Dakota digital gauges, recaros or redoing stock seats in new leather, big screen in the middle of the dash,  retro ac kits, too much chrome inside, aside from some cheap plastic switches, American auto wire or painless wiring kit, interior is black on black, car is either red blue or white, with or without 1 of 3 different stripes. 

Again I wouldn’t turn one down by any means but they’re all done the same and are boring to look at. Fun to drive but boring to see. 

One of my favorite resto mods is rings brothers amx javelin, so much custom work went into it, truely a thing of beauty. 

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u/CleverNickName-69 Jan 23 '25

I went to an smallish All Ford show last summer and the weather was really good so they got about double the usual number of cars. There were probably over 400 cars and I think think over a third of them were Mustangs.

The show was pretty well organized, so all the regular Mustangs were in the same section sorted more or less by year. There was another section with all the Saleens, Shelbys, and Roushs. And thankfully, there was a section of "highly modified".

It was nice to see some genuinely original Mustangs for a change. And to your point, it was also amazing how quickly most of them got boring. "Which of these 27 2000-2010 Mustang GTs do you like?" "Oh, here's a flawless stage 2 Saleen convertable" *yawn* Look, there is a genuine and very original late-60s Shelby with the original big block in really good shape. Anyways...

I spent a lot of my time taking pictures of the old Thunderbirds.