You pose an interesting question. I grew up in the 80's and avery mucle car was hot rodded up. In 1986 i had my first bee. I worked at a gas station and a guy would bring in a 70 bee that he was trying to find original parts for. It was early in the resto. biz so there weren't any real repop parts available. I found it very interesting and have been a purest ever since.
KID