I agree with farmerjohn...is it a GT?...yes. Does it put down 350hp?...maybe. Is it really a GT350?...no. Do what you want, but you won't ever see it on mine.

Rice is rice, cool is cool, and doo doo is doo doo, be it an '89 Civic or a '05 Mustang.

 

I had this topic added to my subscriptions and read it today for the first time in over a week. Just wanted to make a comment on what drift35 said. Doo doo is doo doo, no matter how you look at it, you are right. That's like saying 2+2=4. It's concrete. You can't define the words cool or rice. It's opinion, and everyone has their own. If you want to call "GT350" rocker stripes rice, go right ahead. But, seriously... don't try and define what rice is. Afterall, you have a Civic with a supercharger. I guess we all have our own opinions on that too.

 

umm........I think he has a supercharged civic, and the mustang is on order. But maybe I read it wrong. No............it's you.

 

so if it's ok to put GT350 stickers on a GT, then it's ok for a V6 to have GT emblems...right?

either way it's rice.

 

My Fauxbra Rocks........
And I like her,and make the payments and pay for the gas so if someone else doesn't they can sit on it.

 

I just now realized what your 'fauxbra' was.....I thought you had some type of clear bra on the front end. Man, I'm slow.......

I'm not sure if you want people to sit on your car....... :P

 

A shelby clone isn't rice, rice is if you try to make your car look like a plane by adding wings to it.

 

heck, throw a shaker hood scoop on it and some mach1 stripes and it still aint gonna look rice if you do it right

 

Retro Musclecar is fine, fast and furious snot nose punk with a fart can and body kit 1in off the ground with a 2ft wing painted floresent purple with orange stripes is rice.

 

IMO the decals are improper. People are going WAY too far to make these cars even "more retro".

 

So, I guess getting a personalized plate saying "05GT350" is going too far, eh? Oh well, I guess I'm going too far. But, IMO if you put a cobra emblem on a Mustang that isn't a cobra, or even Mach 1 stripes on an '04 GT, that's going overboard. It's basically pretending to be something you aren't. They aren't going to make an '05 GT350 or maybe another one ever, so putting GT350 on your car and making it look like a '65 GT350 isn't necessarily going to far. It's more of a tribute, rather than a fake copy. Maybe it's too much for those who like to keep things simple and have a car like everyone else. But I personally see nothing wrong with it. As long as it is done right, it can look very nice. Fact is though that there are a heck of a lot worse things out there to do to a car then make it resemble a classic. And there are a heck of a lot more things out there to call rice than putting some GT350 (or GT300) rocker stripes on your '05 GT.

 

jwede,

I am going to do something totally new here. I struggled with the same thing. Knowing the history of where the name GT-350 and GT-500 came from makes it easy to justify what I am going to do. In case you didn't know the GT-350 was a made up name, by Mr. Shelby, based on the distance between the engine shop and the fab facility. The GT-500 was again totally made up. the 500 was used because it was a bigger number, than 350, and the car had more power than the 350.

Soooo... I am creating the GT-400. I am making this number up (Man I hope this doesn't exist) Why GT-400. Because the car it a GT and its modified beyond Stock and its a Non-Shelby.

Plus in the spirit of the muscle car, it gives m something the BS about over an ice cold beer!

 

I'm considering GT-281. I just like it.

 

Just mod your car up to 400 HP (not at the wheels, of course) and that will be a good excuse for getting GT400.

 

I've been contemplating this for a long time, since before I got the car, I think I've finally come up with the answer. I've wanted to do a Shelby Clone since the car was first introduced, pulling styles from different years including modern feels on the car to keep with the theme that is a car built from all of the stangs of the past and so back to the original question I am now thinking about GT500T the T standing for Tribute, I was orignally thinking GT500R R being the first letter of my last name (and first) so as to say it is my creation, and R is common to see on a car and would blend in enough. Either way if and when I do this it will be only after the engine and the rest of the car can back it up, no way would I represent something that my car wasnt, it will spank a vette before that rocker panel stripe gets painted on.

 

GT 350s were so designated because the building they were built in was....... 350' from the office.... the GT500.... yep you guessed it, same reason.. you can look it up.
Nothing to do with HP or engine size.

 

I like the way you think.... you bought a car mod it how YOU want it. Lots of things look rice ( or as we Okies say hoser) to me like 20" rims, but hotrodding as I have said many times is about individuality. WHO cares if someone else doesnt like it.. or for that matter if they do. Make it yours. Make it individual.