Steel '69 Crate Camaro

[Canucklehead]

Im actually looking at doing a pro-street build of a 69 Camaro and have been tossing around the idea of using one of these bodys. I have been looking for quite sometime for a donor car and am finding that one in decent enough shape to start from is going to cost me 10k+. Than of course i have to repair whatever i need to keep. I figure it's going to cost me $25-30k just to prep the body. If i start with one of these body's at 12k, i would have to do my body mods from there, but should be running at about 20-25k for a prepped body. That would give me a BRAND NEW body, but not an original camaro. Since im building a complete street rod there won't be much left of an original. Im torn as to weather i should use an original or not. If you want to talk resale, while looking at this years BJ auction, street rods do retain good dollors unlike years ago, but would it make a defference if it was original or not, and if so how much?. Would it be worth it to use an original?, or save it for someone else to restore?. Sure you may say im distroying a perfectly good camaro, or am i keeping it alive. I really can't decide. Theres good and bad points either way.