Clubs in Japan

[Shambles]

No, its a 350. A trip down memory lane, rebuilding my first car with my dad!

 

That's a very expensive and time consuming trip.

 

 

Shambles

[Tyk]

Time consuming definitely, although that is part of the point. Expensive I guess is relative. If you do it right you will always end up with a vehicle that is worth more than you spent, sometimes much much more. So you can think of it in terms of what your time is worth, but in my case, it is time spent with my dad doing something we both enjoy, so the fact that at the end of it we will have a cool car that will have both sentimental and monetary value is really hard to beat!

 

Sorry for hijacking this thread! I'm willing and ready to resume JDM discussion at any time!

[ZenGolfer]

I guess if that is what trips your trigger, then you are right. If you find value in brand names, logos and shiny bling then they are worth whatever you will pay for them, but at some point you have ceased paying for anything golf related, you are paying for image, for how being the owner of such and such makes you feel and how you think it makes others perceive you. I'm not knocking you, we are all wired that way to some degree, but I think its important to recognize it for what it is. I myself am the kind of guy that would get more pleasure out of taking a $3000 Mustang, spend another $15K and countless hours restoring it and hiding a beast of a high performance engine in it and pulling up next to that Ferrari at a stop light, but that's just me!

Id rathar have the Ferrari because no matter what you do to that Mustang, it will never be what the Ferrari is and people will never look at your Mustang the way they look at the Ferrari. As the old saying goes, "you can put lipstick on a pig but its still a pig."

I will agree with you that, to a certain extent, JDM clubs are vanity clubs. They are the best of the best for people who can afford the best and are willing to pay a little more for it. (Sometimes a lot more...LOL)

Some might turn their nose up at those people saying they fell for the hype and the bling and wasted their money and others might say that those people are simply making an excuse for settling for 2nd best.

[Shambles]

Id rathar have the Ferrari because no matter what you do to that Mustang, it will never be what the Ferrari is and people will never look at your Mustang the way they look at the Ferrari. As the old saying goes, "you can put lipstick on a pig but its still a pig."

I will agree with you that, to a certain extent, JDM clubs are vanity clubs. They are the best of the best for people who can afford the best and are willing to pay a little more for it. (Sometimes a lot more...LOL)

Some might turn their nose up at those people saying they fell for the hype and the bling and wasted their money and others might say that those people are simply making an excuse for settling for 2nd best.

 

I disagree.

 

In the same way that clubs in general get old and lose their market value, so do cars in general get old and lose their market value. Granted that there are exceptions that actually gain in market value, those are very old, rare and marketable only to a very select few.

 

Some JDM clubs do offer a feature I like. Miuras come with a spec sheet specifying your ordered specs. It's practically a challenge from the OEM for you to find something not according to your order. Some JDM clubs also have lines and proportions I like the look of in the actual. Others are photo beauties only. One of the reasons I prefer to do my shopping in the face to face and not by mail.

 

I think all clubs can be improved by a good fitting to the specific owner. Not to say that off the shelf does not often come close enough to good, but there is no saying how much easier it is to learn to do more with a set when it fits you perfectly. The difference could be worth a few strokes, but it could also be worth greater confidence when you address a difficult shot. I've been modifying my clubs for myself for too many years to be able to speak to off the shelf suitability. It's irrelevant that a couple of sets are JDM and all are old. They all worked when I got them and after that, I began thinking about how to make them work better for me, but only the ones I liked.

 

 

Shambles