Quote Originally Posted by mrm930 View Post
I purchased a full race 67S and did a mild resto to an outlaw. the car came with 3 engines, all of the original parts (well, so I was told) and 4 sets of Fuchs, plus more parts. It is a numbers matching car - however I just didn't want to do a full concours style restoration. The freak purists would look at every stamp on every bolt, every screw, especially the interior finish ones, etc. Just not worth the hassle - also to do that type of restoration, the hours of research and finding factory correct missing items would take longer than the actual work. Sure - you then can state that the car is as it came of the factory floor, but in my opinion you just sucked the enjoyment out of it.
That's the reason why I have two cars. First one is a bitza for driving pleasure and to help me forget the time and money I am pouring into the second "matching freak" restoration...