Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

i love how the internet turns these^ questions...

into these^ answers.

didn't we end up putting an alfa v6 into a moggie last time? engine swaps are a MASSIVE PITA almost all of the time, but the internet turns swapping a b-series for an LS3 into a weekend exercise ("they are smaller than a rover v8, you know").

you then end up with something 3 times more expensive than:

...which would meet the initial brief

Think its the classic lines but with out the hassle of greasing kingpin, suspension joints every couple of 100 miles. Oil changes every couple of thousand miles. Classic cars are more labour intensive. Also they don't like sitting about.

With modern mechanics longer service intervals and fit and forget parts.