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Originally Posted by Kube
While I appreciate a well planned and well built custom, I do feel there is much more involved with a true top point restoration vs. a custom / refurbishment. There are after all no guidelines / criteria when customizing. Pretty much 'make it fit', 'make it pretty' and 'make it work' are all that's involved. The rest remains completely up to the builders imagination and personal skill level. Also reducing the challenge of a custom is the ease in which parts can be had. I have to beleive a 32 roadster can be built out of a catalog nowadays. Try restoring one and see the difficulty of that venue...
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Last summer my stock original car was next to a cusomiized fortysomething at a car show and the owners of that car said the same thing - how much harder it is to "fit to a pattern" as authentic restorations require rather than just doing whatever comes naturally that one does with a customization. I like it though - to research and learn the true historical facts in order to recreate a moment in history to "go back in time" to.