You would take away some of the owner's freedoms?
Who gets to decide what those limitations should be?

 

willys roadster

 

It might be really good to drive around fast in the sand and stuff. I don't see anyone rolling that.

 

Well, Barak Obama of course. Isn't that why he's in office? To take care of everybody's problems. Hope and change, you know.

 

 

I just tend to be a traditionalist and a classic like that IMHO should be preserved like one of those beautiful mahogany Chris Craft or Riva runabout boats from the '30s.

 

I think it's pretty sweet! I don't know what one would necessarily do with it though. It's obviously not gonna crawl over anything and it doesn't look like it'd be street legal. Sand I guess?

 

To the OP...
Allow me add to your frustration

 

^this i dont like so much.

But i really like the willys posted in the OP. It would be alot of fun for a weekend toy to drive around town. It has personality. That guy just took scrap parts he found from places and turned it into that on a budget. If i remember right, he just collected 90% of those parts from salvage yards. Sure its not all that functional unless its a nice day outside, but it would be awesome to have that in the garage.

 

LOL - that's not frustrating to me at all. That's actually a fully restored stock 1950 DJ-3A Surrey made when Jeep was run by Kaiser, and not some modded out rig. I think they were marketed heavily in Hawaii for tourism. FWIW, I think the "rat-rod" in my original post is waaaaaayy cooler than this even though the surrey suits my preference to go more to stock.

I don't know why some people are getting so bent out of shape about my comments. I'm just saying that I couldn't take a '45 Willys and rod it out like that. I also have a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe and have been a Mustang fan for as long as I can remember. I once went to a Mustang show and saw a 1969 Mustang Fastback 4x4 with what had to be on 40"+ tires. I remember thinking aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh! Why would anybody do that? I think I was 14 at the time.

To each their own, this I understand, but sometimes I think it can go too far sometimes, that's all.