[Pantera]

This discussion raises questions in my mind about the 2 Baldwin Cars that I own. #1 is the first Phase III vette that Joel made and is on the cover of CAR's Magazine back in '69. I only have 45,000 mi on it and in my eyes, is not needing to be totally dismantled and restored. I feel that is worth more as a surivor car with as much just the way it came from Joels shop when new. The #2 '70 car is a 15,000 mi car and even though the LS-7 is long gone now, I am tryijng to piece one back togther to go in it. Of course any motor that goes into it would be correct as it was factory delivered with a 390 hp 454 and Joel put the LS-7 crate motor in it. Other than that it is totally still the way it came from Joel except for the flex fan blade sticking through the hood. I will not ever take this car down to the last bolt. It is almost as new as Kevins Camaro but with the distinction of having the original BOS from Baldwin Chev. and original paint that is now bad. It still smells like new leather when you open the door.

So my question and delima is just which way to go. I think the original unmolested cars are someday going to be worth more than any pieced together "real supercar". I think I will do a extremely detailed repaint of both of these cars back to Motion new and try to take them back as close as I can to what they were when new. With no more miles on them than they have; they don't need to be totally dismantled and I think I will just repair with correct vintage parts anything that is wrong and do a very full and correct paint job, by pulling the doors and hood. Hell there is really no need to take them off the frame and destroy the factory markings and such. If they were off the frame there is very little on a Vete that I can paint off the frame, that I can't paint with the body on the frame. Just will take a little more masking to perserve the undercariage.

Just wondering what you guys think? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]