I'll reply to each part of your reply. Once again, I mean no offense, just trying to understand why so many people go to all the time, money, and effort to get cars back to 100% factory correct.
No offense taken! Just out of curiosity, what would be considered a "big attraction" or big deal? After market wheels and tires? Air Shocks? Shackles? Shag carpet? Side Pipes? Or how about a tunnel ram hood scoop?
Never been big on air shocks, shackles, or shag carpet (unless it's a Shaggin Waggin). Side pipes, I like how they look, and sound. And the tunnel ram hood scoop (usually) means that the car has some serious balls, which is why I respect it.
I always thought that attempting something that had not been done (since the factory did it 39 years ago) WAS a thing of extreme deviation and/or difficulty.
I'm not denying that. In fact, quite the opposite. It's damn hard to bring a car back to how it came from the factory. Alot harder than doing a restomod.
Try finding an NOS correct date coded air conditioning condenser still in the factory original packaging. After the months it takes to do that, then you can proceed to find the other 300 plus NOS parts that is just as hard to locate. If that all falls in place, then try and assemble every single piece in a fashion that does not look deliberate or restored by someone after the fact. If your $600 per gallon paint job doesn't turn out exact with the correct over spray pattern, orange peel or has too much dirt, (that you cannot wet sand out because it would take away from the factory patina) you simply start all over from scratch. (Three times to be exact!)
This is what I don't understand. Why would you go to all this effort, to get every little detail down exactly how it was (you've done a damn good job of it, which speaks volumes of your patience and love for the car). I just don't understand why people would argue about if black overspray was correct or not. To me, the overspray being there or not does not add, or detract, from the car itself. But then, to me, color, or the options list, or rarity of the car don't matter to me, either. I just love to drive them, to listen to their engines purr at idle, and roar at throttle, to look at their beautifully sculpted bodylines (one of the main reasons I'm a Mopar guys is that Mopars are more beautiful than most GM or FoMoCo cars). What I don't understand is why you take so much time and effort, preventing you from driving the car for years longer than it would have with a normal resto. Frankly, I don't have the patience for that, I'd go insane from having the car, but not being able to drive it.
Certainly not as impressive or difficult as getting a J.C Whitney exhaust system or an Aftermarket Aluminum Intake Manifold or Year One Seat Covers or........
I never once said that. The sheer level of time, work, and detail put into this car are just as impressive as a 10 second street car.
