So let’s take this Bentley and remove the stuff that makes it a Bentley. Now we’ve got an overweight luxury-ish hot rod.

Hell no. I’d much rather buy this unmolested beauty for the same price.

Automatic CP for this wheel alone.

Someone is very good at reading articles.

You are correct a “rebuilt” engine could be anything from a crate motor rebuilt using a recycled block to OEM condition to a junk yard motor with a new set of plugs, filters and maybe a fresh head gasket. If the former it should look factory new if the latter it probably looks like this.

It’s leaking from the oil pan after 200 miles, I'm pretty damn sure the rebuilt is shit.

no shits given to clean up that bay — no degreaser or even a wash so I’m thinking the rebuild is shit.

so you go through the trouble of a swap but hook up all the old cables and whatnots and be too lazy to clean the bay while the engine is out... hate to say it but I’m going CP based on mileage and this

Oakay.

I think you’re going against the grain, here.

I’m going out on a limb and say that someone wood get board with it real soon.

I love the idea, but the execution just doesn’t do it for me. Teak is a beautiful wood, and I’ve seen teak sculptures that make you want to just run your hand over them and enjoy the curves and the texture.

If someone Spruced it up a bit, I’m sure someone would Pine for it. I’m certain Rosewood.

I know it’s wood, but for a 1:1 “replica” the lines are really bad, from that shot of the front I’d be hard pressed to tell it was supposedly an E Type.

A South Florida used car dealer selling cars on eBay. No red flags there. I’m sure the car is everything they say it is, and more!

heh. Do you believe sellers when they tell you it’s “all highway miles”? Isn’t this the equivalent of the fleet car being driven “only be the CEO’s wife”? :)

If the car is “well maintained”, why does the driver’s seat cushion look so ratty?

I feel like there was a time when I really dug HRE wheels, like, when I was 14.

Aston has some of the best factory wheel designs around, why drop $8k on these multi-piece monstrosities?

Let’s make an exception for this one. It’s too good to pass up!

That’s not how you make a body on frame vehicle :P