Seems to me the dividing line in the sand is whether or not you want to restore the fasteners and such minor details.

If you are going to restore about 2,000 fasteners in multiple original finishes, you have to do this in piles, which means you can't leave them in bins with the main parts. Afterwards, to go from restored piles back to exactly where the fasteners came from, you're going to have to be well organized.

If you have an original, one-owner, numbers-matching, unmolested, unwrecked car or close to this, and you want to restore it righteously, you probably need to get organized, take a lot of time, and act like an amateur museum curator. That's me.

But if I had pieces of a picked-over junkyard basket case that could never be more than a wannabe clone, I'd be working a lot faster and taking a "that looks good enough to me" attitude.

To each his own, but this is a restoration forum, right?