[firstgenaddict]

It absolutley amazes me that they continue to make such garbage... they are obviously not restorers or true historians they seem to give approval to things that could have just as easily done right. I guess when a company becomes so large the person who makes the decisions on exactness doesn't even have a clue what he is looking at... he says "looks good to me."

Maybe there needs to be a certification system developed maybe by the CRG? Where the restoration companies would submit their products for evaluation on correctness.

Also if a company would put honest descriptions as to correctness in their catalogs (Ames does this and you are rarely disappointed by their descriptions) they state whether it is accurate, best available, needs finish work... what ever the case may be.
A Chevrolet parts place could do themselves well in the long run by adopting such a system...