This is not CONDOING or CONDEMNING But How come
Back in the late 30's / 40's / early 50's if some one took one of our beloved Flatheads and chopped it up & went racing they were call a LEGEND or HEROS.
And when someone pulled the guts out and made it into a power unit of some sort, there were called CREATIVE / SMART / NESSESITY is the MOTHER of INVENTION.
BUT now if some kid was to do the same thing he would be thought of as the SON of the DEVIL