Homebuilt or Big Dollar?

I know most reader's like alot of the homebuilt hot rod's but what do you think of some of the more expensive cars in our hobby? Sound off hear, because we honestly want to hear about it.  

The high dollar cars have some good ideas that can be used by a home builder and give an insight to where the hobby is going, but are they worth more pages than homebuilt car? Posies new car leans towards the rat rod style and is filled with ideas that anyone can use but is still high dollar. The winner of the Grand National Roadster Show has very few ideas that a home builder could use, so picking and choosing the features should be done with the readers in mind. Most of us could never afford to buy the Worlds Most Beautiful Roadster trophy, but we can drive our cars and know how to change the plugs.  

yeah, Posies Fleetliner is a really cool, i love the simplicity of it. I love that he put an inline six in it... way cool  

To me, the style of the car in question is more important than how much money was spent in the build.  If a car doesn't have that '65-or-earlier look, I usually don't waste my time (and that doesn't have to be pure era correct, just the aesthetic has to be good).  Sometimes a guy will luck out on getting "all the right parts" for cheap or free, sometimes he'll fabricate copies of those parts, or sometimes he'll get out his watercooled checkbook to supply them, but in any case if he builds a nice car, I want to see it in the mag.

Conversely, there are plenty of ugly homebuilt rods that, while they make their owners happy, I have no desire to see them in the mag.  Likewise with ugly probuilt rods (like anything Boyd Coddington has ever done).

-Dave  

Bigcheese327:
To me, the style of the car in question is more important than how much money was spent in the build.  If a car doesn't have that '65-or-earlier look, I usually don't waste my time (and that doesn't have to be pure era correct, just the aesthetic has to be good).  Sometimes a guy will luck out on getting "all the right parts" for cheap or free, sometimes he'll fabricate copies of those parts, or sometimes he'll get out his watercooled checkbook to supply them, but in any case if he builds a nice car, I want to see it in the mag.

Conversely, there are plenty of ugly homebuilt rods that, while they make their owners happy, I have no desire to see them in the mag.  Likewise with ugly probuilt rods (like anything Boyd Coddington has ever done).

-Dave

yeah i have seen some pretty bad homebuilt stuff, where you think to yourself "what were you thinking!" just because a guy fabricated his own part doesn't mean it will look good