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Originally Posted by Charley Lillard
All orig. cars sitting next to each other.
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Well here it is. The best evidence you can get. We trust survivors for literally everything else, fits, finishes, numbers, dates, photographs, data, and the people who did the work. Say what you want about Lillard but he follows where the facts lead.
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Originally Posted by cook_dw
AMEN! It's funny how everyone wants to be right or wants to prove others wrong. Who really cares? Paint it what YOU think it should be and get the car finish and enjoy the damn thing. Life's too short.
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As is human nature there is always the motivation of individuals with skin in the game with perfect interpretively restored cars.
I have seen people who otherwise should be fast friends become bitter because of the competition between who's interpretive restoration is more "correct" when in reality both examples are prefect examples of a custom car.
These are nearly always consensus built restorations.
A person who restores a consensus car (and the system that created the consensus determination in the first place) is typically the toughest to change when the facts are presented.
Why? because money is involved.
Each and every time at MCACN when I had the Norwood ambassadors with me and we approached a show perfect restoration -- the owners who were present with the car became disinterested in speaking to them when near their cars. This phenomenon literally became the "elephant in the room" later at dinner as a discussion point between the group.
The agreement between the Norwood workers was universal.
Each restored car was no longer original because the fit and finish and attention to detail vastly exceeded anything built within the factory and the people who own these cars literally do not want to hear that.
So yea I agree
"get the car finished and enjoy the damn thing" but the survivors will always tell all of us the truth whether we desire to believe it or not.