Personally, I think that the earlier Carpenter pipe styling wise, is thee best looking pipe made for a Rocket, no matter which angle you look at it, it just looks meaty and mean.
Again personally, I would black out that alloy plate on the head, just to make it disappear and leave the pipes standing out, but then again that is all part of that meaty look.
You may ask why I didn't build my systems in this style, well I wasn't just going to copy some one else's work, I wanted to be original with my styling.
The later Carpenter pipe, the sidewinder, doesn't appeal to me styling wise, but as G.O.C. said
"Each to his own, all opinions are valid to the person who holds them"
And as we all know, Bob builds for performance first, what it looks like is secondary.