classic car

Here's something I think will encourage people to stop treating their cars as trailer queens and start actually driving them. Don Sherwin, a Canadian resident, created a street rod with a 450 horse, 8.2 liter GM V-8. It is chopped and lowered, and here comes the catch. It's a 1934 Brunn-bodied Pierce-Arrow Sedan.
I think that people need to start driving their cars more, and one major step towards that is not being afraid to modify it. Who cares if people like Jay Leno yell at you and you get scorned by purists; that happens all the time with Corvettes and other, less expensive classics. If you hot rod a Duesenburg, every car guy will know your name immediately and you'll get even more attention driving it than if it was stock. Somebody needs to try this sometimes. Just take a Cord or an Auburn, throw in a humongous V-8 or modify the original so it gets more than 80 HP, and drive it. It's that simple, yet is a step to changing the purist mindset that has always hung over collector cars, especially these prestige brands. This photo is of a hot-rod Cord 810 that has probably been restored to stock by some rich purist since the time this photo was taken. Photo from hbconcours.org