People love to personalize things and that especially goes for their cars
. The idea of custom car parts is not new but with the ever increasing amount of television shows dedicated to personalizing cars there has been an explosion in the popularity of custom car parts.
Some people go with subtle custom car parts such as decals and accessories while other people become hardcore custom car parts fanatics and start changing around engines and other parts of the car that can increase performance and also make the car look more like a customized vehicle.
Some custom car parts have even been outlawed in some states while others are just plain dangerous. For a time people were putting lights in their radiator grills that looked a lot like the lights installed in police cars. These types of custom car parts have been outlawed.
Some people like to install nitrous in their cars to soup up performance and these custom car parts have been known to kill people. But with custom car parts it is not always about the new models. Just as much as contemporary car parts have been increasing in popularity so have custom car parts for antique vehicles as well.
A large industry has grown up around the community of people that take older vintage vehicles and fix them up for show, to race them, or just to have them in their collection. As this community of antique auto enthusiasts grows the custom car parts makers out to support them grows as well.
Is it Ever too Much?
Most states and communities have laws regarding custom car parts. In some cases some communities will invoke local noise ordinances to keep people from increasing the volume of their exhaust pipes or from blasting a stereo that is obviously much too loud for the vehicle it is in.
Always check to make sure that any modifications that you wind up installing are not going to make your vehicle illegal or in any way unable to be driven on public roads. It is nice to have a custom vehicle but if you have no way of showing it off then what is the point of doing it?
Everyone likes to make a personal statement and many people make their statement with the vehicle that they are seen in every day. Whatever your preference is always make sure that what you are doing is legal and safe.