Is it right to mod an vintage pedal?

[MetalGod]

    ah, man, hack into that pedal and pimp it out.  collector value is silly to me, I mean if people want to pay huge amounts of money for mass produced stuff that you can make for 20 bucks then that's their business. 

Actually, it is your business if you're the one selling it for huge amounts of money.

indeed - I sold an original Rangemaster a couple of years back for over £600GBP.  that is just insane that someone paid that kind of money imo (my clone sounded every bit as good).

[tcobretti]

    ah, man, hack into that pedal and pimp it out.  collector value is silly to me, I mean if people want to pay huge amounts of money for mass produced stuff that you can make for 20 bucks then that's their business. 

Actually, it is your business if you're the one selling it for huge amounts of money.

indeed - I sold an original Rangemaster a couple of years back for over £600GBP.  that is just insane that someone paid that kind of money imo (my clone sounded every bit as good).

Exactly.  Clone it and sell the unmodded pedal for mucho dinero!