There's different segments - the largest crowd is mostly into restoration or general maintenance, a lot of low-buck preservation efforts and modest driver improvements, maybe dragstrip/straight-line type modifications - understandable enough given their history.   

There's a custom/cruiser contingent that just wants to lower the things and doesn't care if they can get out of their own way.   I'm not much into that.

There's a few that have fallen into the deep end like me.  Not too many, just a few.  Maybe I'd be happier today if I'd kept the car on the road for the past decade, though things are starting to come back together now.  Sorta.    About the only thing I'd do differently at this point is to run a mildly stroked 428 instead of the 385-series motor.   And maybe figure out how to use someone's 5- or 6-speed automatic behind it instead of a 4R70W.    But I've got those bits so unless I find something else to do with the 525ci 460 - and a pot of money to build a FE - that's what's going in it.

I now have a pair of junkyard Astro Hydraboosts laying on the floor next to my set of eBay Porsche Cayenne calipers.  Getting acquainted, so to speak; if all goes according to plan they're going to be working together.  I'll have to put a pic up over on the galaxie forum once I get one of the calipers trial-fit inside a wheel.  The front calipers are about the size of a small power-pole transformer.

Last edited by JEM (11/21/2011 5:26 pm)