That's exactly it! It is just for the driver. We watch films all the time with these cars driving along in chases and such - I'm not thinking, 'that's not an original' - it doesn't really matter in the end.
For collectors, I mean hardcore buy to profit dealers, it matters. If I could get an original, all numbers matching car that I wanted, of course I would. But I'd probably end up changing stuff myself anyway, and I think that's the point. I've seen articles online about people changing stuff just because they weren't built that well in the first place - that makes sense to me.
I do understand the numbers matching thing, don't get me wrong. It's important to have these cars around. But when someone is asking $100,000 for a car it starts to get a little stupid. There aren't many people who can afford that kind of money, it's not something I'll ever be able to do. I suppose where there is demand, prices will shoot up. But I have seen numbers matching cars go for a third of that price, all as nice as the most expensive of them. So I think it gets confusing for people like me who are looking out for the future. I see cars for $100,000 and it puts me off, then I find one for so much cheaper and automatically think there MUST be something wrong with it. That's the worst thing about the whole 'clone culture', as it were - it just makes me suspicious of sellers, when really, I should be concerned how the car looks, feels, and runs.
