again it is an arguement both ways, How many true u code 440 cars have sixpacks on them, How many rallye hood cudas have shakers, how many rear ends have been change and all of this will differ from the fender tag or build sheet, Or how many of these cars changed hands and the build sheet was lost and now the current owner wants to look at the funny colored paper with the codes that he probably doesnt even now what half of them stand for. but all of this is ok, as long as the car was a big block and the big money was shelled out. but it is not if it is a C code 225 six cylinder car that now had 40k in restoration and now sports a 440 sixpack.
Ted.......If you had a 70 v-code e-body that didn't have a fender tag or build sheet, because someone discarded it and the enigine and trans,axle were correct, and you could clearly see what option the car had and now you wanted to document the car and do a full restoration on it what would you do as a purist. now why would this be fraudulent. just like a reproduction seat skins or quarter panel, it wasn't made then but now, but it is putting the back together that counts. how is that fraud.
The way i look at it is there are many purists in the automotive world, some have to have it buy the books or numbers, some just want a really nice car to build there way with factory options, and there are some that do not care about being by the number and will do what they want. Just because one person has a numbers match fully documented car and is a purist in that right , doesn't mean everyone has to follow that line or is fraudulent.
this is all good conversation, about what to do or not to do. Again the simplicity of passing information.