The car respect thing is tough - I have a few other cars other than the Crossfire, and they are in original 30 year old paint, a little rough, and it is amazing how people can be disrespectful to them because they are 'old' - it comes down to those who have had to work hard for their things, be it those that are rough but have had a lot of time and energy put into them to keep them shiny, or new and more expensive that took (or are taking) many years of hard earned $$ to get -
We live in the country, in a 100 year old fixer farm house, with a wood floor barn we keep the Crossfire and my Demon in - we work our tails off to keep the place up and restore the house with what little $$ we have, and still if people come over or stop by, they disrespect our place because it looks 'rough' or they were raised in a family that did NOT teach them any core values on respect! I think they are all a product of a 'Disposable Society', where if you break/ruin/wreck something, you just go out and buy another...sad.