I can relate to that, slash. There are just some utilitarian considerations that give me second thoughts. My main concern is getting the thing to work properly -- optimally. The glitz can follow.
As to "rice". Somebody is going to antagonize people like me, whose first "new" car was a Honda Civic 1200. That car lasted 18 years before I got rear-ended by some bimbo in an SUV listening to a boom-box and looking at people in the other lane. (I was at a dead-stop in traffic-jam, fer Chrissake!!) By that time, it had Accord Mag wheels, Accord brakes, and a 5-speed Accord tranny. The morning it happened, I was sailing down the highway to school so I could teach my class, thinking that it would last another ten years -- maybe longer -- how every mechanical part had been lovingly refurbished, maintained, tuned, and cared for. And I was thinking to myself -- "This sucker is almost about to become airborne!!"
For 1,600 lbs, that was a "muscle car". And the paint-job!! Talk about "rice" -- Caribbean Red.
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