[66 L78 ragtop]

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Pete, the car will not be boxed even if the owner admits its a restamp. A restoration engine is a polite way to say restamp. The judging is based on "appearance" Bloomington/NCRS promotes restoration/preservation. They do not condone counterfeiting.

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Very informative to say the least and I know this is probably a redundant question for the NCRS/Bloomington guys. But how can they not condone counterfeiting, yet accept restamps? A restamp is a restamp, no more, no less. In other circles of collector cars the stamp pad is 1 of the "Holy Grails", you either have it or you don't. What am I missing here?

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There is a very fine line between a restamp and counterfeiting. That line is crossed when an owner passes the re-stamp off as original and the unsuspecting buyer purchases a car that he didn't bargain for. ie the buyer purchases a clone as opposed to a real deal car.

A car's original motor is usually important as it declares a car's pedigree...In this case and in the case of yenko's etc, the original motor is not necessary to declare a cars pedigree. The pedigree is established by the car's VIN.