I wonder why even worry about restamping or rewelding? It's a 383 car. If it's documented and disclosed the car suffers, if it's done and sold, the buyer suffers, if litigated the deed-doer suffers. A whole lot of suffering going on.
Without restamping, it remains what it is, a car with replacement metal. If it's restamped it becomes what it is, a car wrapped in deceit.
This is one of the reasons that I feel better about my GTS having a 1970 engine than a "date correct" 340 that I (and others) know to not be original to the car. If I could track down the original block and verify it with the people who were involved I would like to have it, but to me it's a more "honest" car as it sits.
