Re: The state of restoration -- sorry for the leng
My mistake was in trying to make the car adhere to the Judging Manual when in fact, in some cases the book may have been wrong because the guy on the assembly line in 68 didn't think along NCRS or restoration lines and used what he had to work with , even if it had incorrect head markings or whatever.
This is without a doubt the biggest mistake people make. Items that they are sure have been replace can be wrong, but items that they are sure have not been replace may well be the real way. The JG only reflects what a survey says is right. The survey may be 50 cars or it may be 10,000 cars, but it is only a survey.
You purchased it when it was 4 years old and odds are you know more about what is correct than the JG does.
Unfortunately, so many people do just this that cars that have original sections are extrememly important to know what is correct and expand the survey, yet they get lost because of "the game".
NCRS is a game. Rules in games change. But the cars are truth, and truth never changes. Restore the car to match the car, not the rules.
I have a roller gas cover on my '63. The "rules" say it should be the later one, because it is over 100 after Noland Adams' last one in his survey. I know the history of this car back to 1970. You know which one I'm using, don't you?
My mistake was in trying to make the car adhere to the Judging Manual when in fact, in some cases the book may have been wrong because the guy on the assembly line in 68 didn't think along NCRS or restoration lines and used what he had to work with , even if it had incorrect head markings or whatever.
This is without a doubt the biggest mistake people make. Items that they are sure have been replace can be wrong, but items that they are sure have not been replace may well be the real way. The JG only reflects what a survey says is right. The survey may be 50 cars or it may be 10,000 cars, but it is only a survey.
You purchased it when it was 4 years old and odds are you know more about what is correct than the JG does.
Unfortunately, so many people do just this that cars that have original sections are extrememly important to know what is correct and expand the survey, yet they get lost because of "the game".
NCRS is a game. Rules in games change. But the cars are truth, and truth never changes. Restore the car to match the car, not the rules.
I have a roller gas cover on my '63. The "rules" say it should be the later one, because it is over 100 after Noland Adams' last one in his survey. I know the history of this car back to 1970. You know which one I'm using, don't you?
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