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Good question, and one I have
been pondering myself.
I have a 66 Coronet cop car with
39,000 on the odo. In every respect, the car looks like a one-year-old car
except one, the granny that drove it last managed to put a ding or small dent in
every panel except the roof. Nothing bad, nothing crunchy. The
original paint is still bright and shiney. So what do you do ? Leave
it as an unmolested survivor or fix the dings and bury that original paint
?
My opinion is to fix a car as
"needed". Leave the rest as is. My 56 Dodge NEEDS the tank pulled and the
fuel system rebuilt. It NEEDS an interior restoration - it is in
rags. Lesser "needs" are some floor rust repair and chrome work. I
consider correct size bias whitewalls to be mandatory equipment and this will be
the first thing I do to the car. In my eyes, finned cars riding on the
lower profile radials look like "sub-prime" all the way. It is just
something I refuse to compromize on. I may repaint the car at some point,
but the paint has been redone before, so nothing original lost
there.
But this old cop car has me stumped. I
guess I am in no hurry, so I can think about it for a while yet.
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