If you are preserving it for future generations, you don't really own it. You're just giving it a place to live and the future owners have control over the car.
And hey, now it's 1 of 1 instead of 1 of 20,000. It's MORE rare.
It doesn’t matter if you are fitting aftermarket wheels or hanging fuzzy dice on the mirror, modifications are modifications—especially if they help express who you are.
In all those modifications, however, is it ever possible to go too far down that path—especially when it comes to rare cars? Take, for instance, the Ford Consul Capri, essentially the coupe version of the British-produced Consul Classic sedan–less than 20,000 examples of the Consul Capri were ever built.
Considering that so few remain, some people might want to keep one totally stock so that it can be “preserved” for future generations.
Nadeem Khan is not one of those people.
Read more about his modified Ford Consul Capri over on Classic Motorsports, and let us know what rare car you want to modify—or have modified for that matter.
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If you are preserving it for future generations, you don't really own it. You're just giving it a place to live and the future owners have control over the car.
And hey, now it's 1 of 1 instead of 1 of 20,000. It's MORE rare.
20,000 built is not rare. Uncommon maybe, but not rare.
A little more than 8000 Volvo 1800ES models were built, yet we seem to celebrate modifying those here. My own plans for mine include extensive modifications, although with some eye towards the ability for a future owner to return it to original if desired. But if someone wants an all original 1800ES, they aren't difficult to find and mine needs so much metal replacement it will never be "original" anyway, so I see it as a blank slate to do what I want.
I'd do it if could easily be put it back.
Of course rare doesn't always mean anything, my Datsun 1200 is rarer than the 240Z and the 510 but obviously far less collectable. That is a factor in my willingness to modify a car.
I'm modifying a Quantum Syncro (1 of 3800), so... yes?
Questions of value come in to play too, not just monetary value but historical value and utility value. Rare sometimes just means nobody bought them.
I've actually decided not to buy my unicorn in large part because a big portion of its value is the heritage. So I'd just be a caretaker, and I don't want to be a caretaker for someone else's car.
I'm gonna have to go with a hard YES on this one...
About 8000 made and I killed two to make this one.
I have, and did again.
The acr pictured is done with ALL period correct bolt ons. Except for porting. Thats a bit more than bolt on. Regardless, except for the stereo none of the parts were not available in 1999.
However, it can be put back to stock pretty easily.
Its also supposedly one of less than 10 lapis blue acrs left.
So, yeah. Rare. And modified.
It depends. I generally don't care to modify my cars in a way that can't be easily reversed. If I had something really rare I might consider bolt on modifications just for fun as well as be able to store and preserve the original parts (basic stuff like wheels, exhaust, suspension components, etc).
That's my M.O.
If we're counting 1 of 20k as rare, then probably everyone on this forum has modified a "rare" car at some point in their life.
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