[mudjnky]

I was looking at a picture of my son from the Lowe's Auto Fair last year and just remembered a car we saw there. It was a Shelby Mustang, I believe a 68. The car was shown "as found". It looked much like your car, although together and running. There was a display sign describing all the "find" details. One of the lines was "restored this car is worth X dollars, as it sits, priceless", or something close to that. I wish I had pictures of the car. I really just wanted to let you know that cars like yours are being shown as is. Anyone can restore a car and make it 110%. Cars like yours rarely turn up and can't be duplicated. In your case I would love to see you start a new trend, "preserved". Just put it together, clean it up, and preserve it. Leave it as is so everyone in the future can see "the way it was back in the day". Right now it is a time capsule, you can't go back to that. Personally I would love to go to a museum and see this car as is rather than one that was restored. It would be nice to say to my grand kids "that is the way they did it back in the day" and show them a literally perfect example. Right now your car is 1 of 1, no one will ever(as we know now) have one just like it. My vote is leave it alone and preserve it, not to restore.