phil's speed shop marketing

[bullitt]

hi guys!!!!
i'm just tired to hear that crazy prices for vintage inlet manifolds and likage and all the other parts they call "hard to find".
one friend of mine says his own definition of collectionism and that is "to pay one thing more than its value".
do you really feel to tell he's wrong??

anyway......i go to the real question i want ask to u.


i would love to start a little series of reworked quality parts u canbuy new....such for example the same empi new  manifold or some flat4 exhaust or berg linkage.....

but u know the problem: if u mount them as they are u are just one of the people.......and then dream of every old cars enthusianst instead oof being one is being the best....

so rework these parts to seem to be more period.....more quality....chgroming, painting, polishing them better than factory did

[bullitt]

so i thought to mark this line (that is not a job for me but only to laugh) just for milan friends that ask them to me, phil's speed shop, chula vista, ca (i'm from milan )
my name is obviously filippo but...better phil's, filtz, philz, felipe's? which whone is the coolest?

chula vista in italian sounds like "fuck her as u see her"

obviously it has to be a seventies fount on the brand.

a friend of mine that have a graphic shop can do grind printing of all i want and then i evidence grind with paint......but.....which colour for my manifold and parts?
i thought something similar to deano's purple.....

my choice would be like metalflake light blue....

it's all a joke....but when u do something with cars.....i like it is a seriuos joke.....lol

tell me ur opinion.....

[rebel]

My opinion is 'do it'.

Speedshops of the era also started like that  - reworking stock parts and than producing their own
Make it BIG, man

In terms of collectionsm...

You know - there is a saying in latin 'aurea mediokritas'  - the golden middle.

Having period parts in Your looker is cool unless You do not exaggerate. Making a fastgoing museum is pointlss to me.
I always ask myself a question when I choose a part - What these guys whould have think about it if they lived nowedays in that budget situation. And I always stay for the attitude, not fancy. That my opinion. Others have others    
 

[bullitt]

hey rebel, ty for the only answer.....

about latin....they teach it in some high schools in italy...and i had the fortune to learn it...

i tell this not to shine myself but cause i wanna tell a thing: if i had a gasser (really dont know if i want to make one) name woul be:

si vis pacem PARA BELLUM


THAT SOUNDS JUST : if u want peace prepare a war