[Raion]

This is the car equivalent of case modding SGI computers to me. 

I especially hate when it's done on vehicles where it basically defeats the entire purpose of having the vehicle in the first place. RX7. Miata. Supra. WRX. 

It's the equivalent of somebody submitting a Ninja Garden NES run using a game genie. It's the equivalent of flexing on retro computing enthusiasts because your AMD Epyc does the equivalent of a trillion Apollo guidance computers. It's the equivalent of a bodybuilder flexing in the middle of a formal event where everybody else is wearing a tuxedo. 

It's tacky and while I can't tell people what to do with their time or money and I have learned the former quite tangibly even especially being an administrator for a significantly large group of people, I think that we need to see the same type of ethics that are applied in computing circles apply to vehicle groups because destroying a priceless vehicle and turning it into an expensive Corvette or Camaro with a different wrapper because you want to be different or because you think that an ancient piece of junk pushrod with two valves per cylinder is somehow better than a much more advanced double overhead cam or rotary engine really just upsets me. It's the equivalent of people who don't want to take the time to learn the tools IRIX comes with and install gnu coreutils because muh colors. 

Am I the only one who thinks this ruins the authenticity of such vehicles?