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I'm not doubting the car we are talking about is the real Motown car at all & like everyone else here I would like to see it back in it's original as raced condition some day soon but I was trying to get your opinions on how much of a car you need to do a full restoration. I don't really get the whole "re-body" thing, once you have re-bodied a car I think it is not the same car anymore. I hear of so many cars (especially convertables) that get "restored" buy replacing most of the panels, glass fittings etc from a one owner low mile 6 or 318 car, so is the convertable still "factory original after that?

Some of these old race cars have a hard life & were left in quite a state before they were saved from the crusher (thankfully!) & now there are some show examples that look way better than they ever did, with some even looking tidier than the Sox & Martin cars did in their day & man they were (and still are) some of the neatest looking cars ever to race.



Do yourself a favor and let it go for you own sanity...you'll go nuts thinking this hard about it. The topic of re-bodied cars has surfaced time to time for years on the general Moparts board particularly when Barrett Jackson is up and running. It's been debated till there's no tomorrow and there's little twists state to state that could be interpreted differently. After the acid dipping and unoticable modifications to the untrained eye , these cars were kind of "re-bodied" anyway by the time they hit the track So kick back and enjoy the ride!



Hey Bill here's even more of a mind twister.. It's been written that a lot of top teams re-bodied their favorite chassis from year to year to keep the newest model on the track, lets say you were digging around Burlington or Lenior NC and happened upon a S&M or Missile body in a barn. You take it home slap it on a Cuda race car a drop in a Hemi. What does that make it ??? Clone?? Keep in mind it an original as raced body. recreation???