The only way to get a car 100% correct is to get a survivor that is totally unmolested (no replacement parts ever used on it) and duplicate it EXACTLY as it originally was. Fat chance. These are assembly line manufactured machines. Not everything was done exactly to manufacturer's specs. My car, when it was new, was built right after a strike. When the guys came back to work they started up the line and used whatever parts were on hand in order to get units out the door. When one of the owners after me had Galen run the build sheet he made mention of a few things that weren't "correct" (the carb was one of them) but yet they were the original parts installed by the factory. The guys on the line didn't have time to make sure every nut and bolt was the correct one. If they ran low or out of something they would use an acceptable substitute to keep things moving along until someone was able to get the correct parts to them. So if you can get a car "perfect" it most likely won't be "correct" and by the same token, if you can make your car "correct" according to the knowledge we have now it most likely won't be how the factory built it. The nitpicking some folks do about the correct muffler flange, etc, etc, is in my opinion, just plain silly. Mopar Action did a story back in the 90's about a red Daytona Charger that the owner fully restored. One of the attaching bolts for the trunk striker (the hook shaped unit mounted in the trunk) was painted green, the other red. The guy took video of it in its original condition just to prove to the know-it-alls that this was the way it actually was because he knew he'd get nicked on that little detail. With everything he did he still got only a 94% grade. To me that's how ridiculous all this has become. Hey, its great if you want to build a static display model but I prefer to see a nice car in great shape being driven down the road! :cents:
