If you found one of these race cars today how would your restore it?
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Restore the car stock
Restore the car to as raced Let’s assume they are all dealer owned cars raced by the dealer themselves . Not privateers Only because ( for some ) it narrows the complications to some extent. |
I know it’s not an option and doesn’t answer your question but if I found one then I would leave the sucker as is. Old, lettered up race cars peg out the cool meter in my book. Especially if they have original paint and lettering!
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Really loaded question. To me, if it has a pedigree, keep it as raced. Otherwise feel free to do whatever your preference is.
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I’m just trying to gauge which way people prefer these old race cars stock or race. It’s kind of an ongoing ( friendly) argument between two friends. But let’s also assume it’s not totally hypothetical because we are trying to decide if people actually had to put their hard earned $$ up for an actual resto which way they’d go. |
For me it would depend. If we were talking a super rare Camaro for instance, like a ZL1, the car is worth a ton restored.
If we are talking a somewhat rare car but it spent it's whole life as a race car, a '69 Z/28, I'd probably restore it as a race car if it was all cut up already and had ladder bars, tubs etc. I think when the car has the potential to be worth 6 figures most folks would restore to stock. |
Ok well most of those cars pictured are 6 figure + cars
I don’t want to interject what I think at this time because I don’t want to sway things . |
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Didn’t want to leave the olds guys out.
And since this is probably gonna get ugly w out some parameters let’s assume it’s a stock eliminator car appropriate for the year of the car, pretty much in its stock class form not all caged, tubbed and changed From It’s regular form . It’s basically stock w bolt ons and blueprinted, headers, slapper bars or bolt on ladder bars, basically a day 2 race car . Sorry guys thought this would be easier . |
It would always be a race car to me.
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I say there’s plenty of fully restored cars out there and limited old warriors I’d leave them in race car apparel!
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I would lean toward restoring as delivered, unless it was a significant race car with great history.
If it was just tired looking race car I'd leave it alone and preserve. Nothing wrong with a little patina and preserving history. |
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