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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???



I figure about 10 - 15% of the populous are purist and would argue the originality of such a modification and deem it unthinkable while the other 85 - 90% of the populous would be thankful to see the car revived regardless of how that was accomplished! Disclaimer: These stats are neither proven nor factual, they are based entirely on personal opinion A good example of this today is Prudhomme's restoration of Goose's ramp truck; there are some who pick it apart for minor inaccuracies, while many are in awe simply to see the Hot Wheel trucks & funny cars brought back to reality.

On a side note, it's awesome having a glimpse back in time to the factory invovlement with the missle cars and realizing how important these cars were then and how important they remain even to this day.

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