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Tonight on my way home I thought I spotted a 99+ black GT, only to find out when I got close enough to see no dual exhaust, that it was a V6 with GT emblems... how do you guys feel about people that put emblems on thier car when thier car really isn't it.. like V6 putting GT, or a GT putting Cobra emblems on it... Even when I had my V6, it still pissed me off... Just kinda curious if anyone agrees with me that if you buy a V6, GT, or whatever.. you don't put emblems on there to call it something it's not...

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Thats being a ricer if you ask me. But then again how many people put cobra rims on there v6 or GT; is that the same thing??

There is a guy around my area who has a GT and bought a shaker system , mach 1 rims , and put badges on it. I think he is a poser, he should take his car for what it is; not fake it. one day a real mach 1 is gonna come along and rape him. I know people who have taken off there v6 badge and replaced it with vintage emblams that dont brag and iam all ok with that. I wouldnt dare put a Cobra snake on my GT unless it was a free gift and then i would put in on the interior some how or put on a cobra bumper on if my current GT bumper got recked or something.

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I dont think putting the wheels on your car is the same thing... you can always change the center caps.. for instance, when I had to buy a new wheel for my GT it came with Cobra caps even though they were Bulitts... I just took off the center cap... :) - Just like I have the Grill delete, but I would NEVER put Mach 1 anywhere on my car. There are a lot of styling cues on the Mach's and Cobra's that I like, and I would think about putting on, but i'd never badge it anything but a GT... and i'd never put a rear bumper on my car that said "COBRA".. Hell, even if I did a Terminator or Mach 1 engine swap I still wouldn't do it - I guess that's me though.

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I've argued over this same topic on other boards...rebadging is nothing but a lie that gives the real thing a bad rep. That's part of the reason why these stock ricer homo's try to race a real GT, Mach, Z28, SS....because a lot of them have just beat rebadged V6's and think they beat the real thing. So IMO we all up end up paying for it in the end. I feel the same way for rebadging a LS1/LT1 Z28 to a SS...even though it's the same exact drivetrain it's still posing. Even worse, a lot of the posers try to resell their car as a real thing and screw someone over...not everyone bothers to look up RPO codes and run VIN's before they buy a car.

I see a lot of V6 stangs posing as GT's...more than any others. I can usually spot'em with misplaced badges, no cut-outs for exhaust on the rear bumper...the sound of a 6er. The poser's need to learn that all the BS stops when the light turns green.

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if i ever get like a cobra bumper im getting the cobra part shaved, i think it would look awesome like that. i dont mind a GT with V6 badges or anything though, its a sleeper effect... haha. but i like it when like a GT has no badges and a different body kit so the person doesnt know if the car is a V6 or something like a cobra... haha. i plan on going with a cobra body kit at one point when i have the money to make the car look better. but im not doing cobra badges, im just putting the pony in the front and 4.6 badges on the sides.

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I've got a cobra and I fuggin hate it wehn people pose GT's as Cobras because I've done a lot to make my baby what she is, If you want ur GT to be a cobra or mach 1, buy a cobra or mach 1... Posers...

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I saw one just the other day on the highway. He had a Cobra back bumper, snake emblem, and SVT emblem but a GT hood. I really wanted to run him and bring him back to reality but it just didn't happen.:(

EDIT: And yes, it is teh gayness.

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could have been a 99 unless it had the hood scoop

http://www.mustangclubofcentraliowa....rs/mempelt.htm

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So what does that make me. I have a 96gt with a 97 Cobra motor in it. Am I a poser wanna be.:( Oh ya your poll doesn't work

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If you have Cobra badges, and you don't have a Cobra? Yep. Just because you have a cobra motor, and your car may be bada** - you're not a Cobra.