I am hated already! Well thats just fine. I'm surprised sowaxeman that you don't sympathize with me, being a fellow muisician and all. (20 years and 9 Ibanez RG guitars) A mod is a mod is a mod. whether for looks or for performance. A car is a car is a car. Ford made it a Mustang or Cobra or whatever. You make it different. After some thought I may actually just do the body conversion, nix the snakes and add a Boss 302 style stripe package to it. I don't care what you all think of it, it will look unique and that is all that matters to me. So you all keep hatin out there, but I AM Ford! I race a dirt late model witha 69 windsor based Roush headed engine and pull it with a Ford expedition and I gaze over at my 1983 Gt 5spd sitting behind me in the showroom of my shop. And across the way at the 89Gt that is getting restored down to the K-member and rear end. So hate me all you want, I've always been Ford and always will be. Never owned a ricer, never will. Wouldn't park one in my garage! Honestly wouldn't it be pretty lame to go to an all mustang show and see 200 showroom stock cars? I say make it yours any way you like, if others are jealous because the hot chicks asking you ?s about why yours has this and that on it, get over it. It's mine and I'll put a frickin SS badge on the side if I want to. That will start a conversation...............peace
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Grow up buddy, your apparently 20+ years old, communicate like it! Nobody said a damn word about "hating" on you or the original poster of this question. We all just ****ly shared our thoughts on what a bad idea this is...simple as that. We are all intitled to bad ideas, but nobody "hated" on anyone. Putting fake badges on a car = posing and = bad idea. Do what you want, sure - but the majority will tell you its a bad idea.
Nobody asked or said a thing about all your Ford Mustangs or race cars or support vehicles....what the hell does that have to do with the original question of this post And if you think there is something lame about going to a Mustang show with 200+ 'stangs where the majority of them are showroom stock or concourse restorations, then go ahead and buy those SS badges - perhaps you should buy the whole car. You're the one that blew this thing out of proportion
Actually sowaxeman I am 34 and have an IQ of 133 so I'm all growed up and communicate fine. It is all of you who lost the meaning of the original question. I believe he asked a technical ? yet got opinionated answers. I didn't read anything like "hey guys how would you all feel inside if I did this" and furthermore if you read the post directly after my first one, what is the first line..........................mmmmmmm "I Hate You" thats al good and well, I didn't join this forum because I have nothing to be doing, I found it by Googling a similar ? as the poor fella you all threw under the bus. Things have really changed for Mustang afficianados, this new breed are like camaro guys, infighting and such. Where I'm from, Mustangers wave at every other Mustanger whether we know them or not. It's a respect thing, not a jealousy thing. We have Mustang clubs here to and we have all kins of modded ones, but we understand that everyone is different and has a different vision as to what their car should LOOK LIKE not BE. Lastly, if you put a Roush hood on your 07 Stang you are a modder right? But if you add all the suspension , engine upgrades, stripes, uh oh now you are just like ME! or are you? I might see your fake Roush and think it came that way, if you fool me , and don't clarify what it is are you a poser now? Or are you smart for having a sweet car that starts conversations among fellow Mustang enthusiasts, and did it for half of what Roush would have charged. If your gonna be critical of me or the other guy "adding snakes" then you all better have Jack himself add the Roush parts or stop bashing the rest of us.
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Everyone voiced in their opinion to benefit him and all mustang owners. Wherever he goes people will rip on him for having these emblems. Then when he gets beat by a Honda Civic they are gonna brag about how they beat a Cobra.
133 IQ - is that supposed to impress us?
I do like the mustang wave thought, I wish we all had one llike Corvette guys do.
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Well LM, I'm willing to clear the air here - sorry I blew up at you.
But still, the question at hand is thought of by most as a bad idea. All the things you mention in your post are moddifications that are commonly done. No biggie by most peoples opinions. But when you start using badges of a car that your car is not (regardless of how you mod it) you are going to stir up those opinions. You are correct that this thread was a simple yes or no question that did not ask for opinions, but had the orginal poster used the SEARCH feature he/she would have found SEVERAL posts about emblems, how to remove them, will they fit...etc So when things get rehashed over and over again, and when a topic in general is looked upon as a bad idea by the majority then you will get these opinions.
So, to the original question....yes it can be done. Just be prepared for all the questions that come with doing something like this.
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Nah, I wouldn't go that far. Adding bumpers/fascia's is an appearance mod. All well and fine. But badges are a cars identifier, adding them is fake no matter how you shake it.
well i just get excited when i see a cobra or saleen. but when i look upon further inspection, and see that it's a fake, i get disapointed. i dunno, to each his own. be proud of what you got. sometimes trying to be different just ends up making your car look retarded.
Well I guess the debate will rage on forever! Anyway this is all supposed to be light-hearted banter on here after all. So DUFFMAN, I'm not really trying to impress anyone on here with my intelligence, I was just being funny with SOWAXEMAN. He like all of you has a strong opinion and I personally respect everyones opinion. We are individuals, no two exactly alike and as much as I would like to change someones mind about a particular subject I should have known better. By the time you have bought your Stang and joined a forum we've already shown we have strong feelings about something and aren't easily swayed. We're al going to either buy a stock Mustang and never change it, or mod the heck out of it, either way we'll enjoy our cars and look good doing it! Lastly, if any of you get a chance, check out Dirt Late Model racing . If you love going fast for 10 seconds down a 1/4 mile, you might like drifting around the turns of a banked 1/4 mile oval. Its a blast and you can body the car like a Mustang, to an extent. www.lasallespeedway.com
ORIGINAL: Blownsvt I Know alot of guys personally with 600+ hp rides so in my personal circle 40050whp cars are a dime a dozen and not considered anyhting extreme.
Most of us CANT afford a Cobra... so we have our GT's. And we are damn proud of them.
when you buy a cobra, you get:
The better engine the enhanced body the cobra emblums
Thats their fame. Not yours. If you want the Cobras on your car... your gonna have to work your ass off to afford one.. not just throw the badges on and call it a day. You dont DESERVE cobra badges. I dont care how you feel about it, no mustang "enthusiest" will put the wrong badges on his car.
I went to a car show this week at Lows Motor Speedway... 100's of mustangs... NONE of them were "fake", all modded to there drives likes. Custom interiors, exteriors, engine parts, engines, etc. Not a single one had the wrong badges on it, no matter the mods or not. There were more enthusiest there than you will ever meet in your life. I garentee you that I could ask any single person what they felt about butting cobra badges on a GT and every single one of them, cobra or not, would loose all respect for me.
edit: I cant spell... get over it
seccond edit: There was a mustang pushin 4-something... guess what emblums it had??? GT
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ORIGINAL: swooshonln
this is why its so personal:
Most of us CANT afford a Cobra... so we have our GT's. And we are damn proud of them.
when you buy a cobra, you get:
The better engine the enhanced body the cobra emblums
Thats their fame. Not yours. If you want the Cobras on your car... your gonna have to work your ass off to afford one.. not just throw the badges on and call it a day. You dont DESERVE cobra badges. I dont care how you feel about it, no mustang "enthusiest" will put the wrong badges on his car.
I went to a car show this week at Lows Motor Speedway... 100's of mustangs... NONE of them were "fake", all modded to there drivers likes. Custom interiors, exteriors, engine parts, engines, etc. Not a single one had the wrong badges on it, no matter the mods or not. There were more enthusiest there than you will ever meet in your life. I garentee you that I could ask any single person what they felt about butting cobra badges on a GT and every single one of them, cobra or not, would loose all respect for me.
HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!!! So you can put a saleen bumper, or cobra rims, or cobra headlights, or a roush suspension on a stock GT and thats fine, but when you put cobra emblems(or any emblem for that matter) on your GT that makes it fake? What if he just likes the snake?
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LM116's point of view makes me want to go outside and mount some GT500 snakes on my car & put a Shelby badge on my trunk.
Why make it something it clearly isnt? Unless the car is a TRUE clone (IE, swapped drivetrain & suspension), why would you ever think it's normal or cool to put the wrong badges on your car?
Why don't you call your Late Model a Formula 1 car? Because it isn't. Next time you are at the track, walk to the hauler next to you and tell the other driver & crew all about your Formula 1 car you brought to the track. They will look at you like you are nuts and laugh when you turn your back.
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RE: Removing GT emblems and mounting snakes? - 
And if you think there is something lame about going to a Mustang show with 200+ 'stangs where the majority of them are showroom stock or concourse restorations, then go ahead and buy those SS badges - perhaps you should buy the whole car. You're the one that blew this thing out of proportion 
