[njsteve]

I think the real reason we are all doing this is to try to create our own little time machines. I'd love to be able to get in my time machine, walk back into a 1969 or 1970 Chevy or Dodge dealer and order a car, show up again on delivery day and store it away til today. Sounds like a Stephen King novel. In the absense of the time machine, the only way we can "go back" is to recreate the past by restoring the cars to the way they came from the factory. On Mopars it's a little easier for documentation purposes: the VIN says it all: hemi or 440-6, etc. On Chevy's it only says 6 or 8 cylinder, hence the problem or fakes, clones, rebodies. That is why the issue of provenance is so important; you are establishing the integrity and authenticity of the car and its unbroken chain of ownership back to its original delivery. Without a documentable provenance, all you have is just another V8 Camaro. So when the provenance is diluted or destroyed by a rebody or a fake, or 2 cars showing up with the same VIN after the original was destroyed in 1969, then you only make the genuine cars worth so much more in terms of monetary and esoteric value.