Gets no big amount of respect from ME, I can take it or leave it, or move on to the next car at the local cruise in, whatever... Just not my cup of tea, could be worse though. It could have neon lights under the side pipes that blink on and off to the big base speaker booming out in the trunk.
Put some FE style valve covers on that BBC, now that would be interesting, I would certainly pause to look as I passed by and scratched my head. Extra "points" for ingenuity.