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Originally Posted by wv_bob
Not meaning to take anything away from the car, but after what you guys did to bring it back to factory configuration, I'm skeptical that never crashed matters any more.
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Very few of these factory built cars survived without the modifications that were done to keep them competitive. I believe it was these mods that kept these cars in the limelight of being the iconic badass cars they are today. As far as I am concerned, bringing a legit car back to day 1 status is complementing the people that made that car what it was back then, along with preserving a piece of racing history for many years to come.
Now, if someone retags or rebodys a car that is a whole different matter.
As far as I'm concerned, what identifies a car as what it came off the assembly line as, is it's OE stamping numbers & the panels they were stamped on. The rest is only sheet metal with part numbers.
the car below is a 1971 hemicuda convertible. VERY RARE car
It has been fully restored since because the numbers were still on the cowl & rad cradle ID'ing as one. It has been accepted by very notable, high end collectors as being today a real car. This is an extreme case but just used as an example.
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