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Also in response to above post, leave the VIN on dash, it drives the resto guys crazy to see an original car being raced. LOL
You should see the VIN checkers around here! They cannot believe I bring it out and beat the tar out of it with rubber all over the quarter panels and such.... 
I race a 71 Hemi Cuda. The car looks all original from the outside except for the wheels and tires.
They made 107 hemi Cuda hardtops. I seen these cars for sale over the years for $750,000 to the highest price. A car that looked just like mine on Ebay about a month ago with a buy it now price of $1,999,000.
I have at least one person each time I'm at the track checking out my car and then they ask me " Is that a real hemi cuda?" Some times I just say no but other times if the guys a little cocky I will say " do you think its a figment of your imagination? It's sitting right here in front of you. Then I explain that its real but its not an original car.
When I first built the car I had many people tell me I am crazy to race it because it is to beautiful to race. I told them if I wasn't going to race it I might as well sell it because I enjoy racing and that is why I am building the car. To enjoy it. Polishing a car an sitting in the hot sun talking about how fast a car might run if I actually ran it doesn't do it for me like it does some guys. I actually have to use my cars and see what they can do to enjoy them. If I had an original car I would be racing it. Or if it was worth crazy money like a 71 Hemi Cuda I would sell it and build a clone and put the rest of the cash in the bank.
Last year when I pulled the car out of storage of 7 years, it wasn't out 24hrs and I was hasseled...I just keep envisioning the next iteration of my Hemi dipping into the 9's, and my car needing more cage...
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