Look...it all depends on what you want. According to the Boys from Provo, mine is supposed to be one of the more "original" ones, and the first BNL to be ordered as a BNL (there is a brushed one, maybe two, before mine...KMP 142...but mine became the package proto after I saw Tom Jr's track car...all done by hand and cost more than paint then, but windex has been cheaper than polish). My suspension is the old school, except the adjustable A-arms are the steel prototypes the arruminum ones KMP makes were based on...took 'em right off of Little Davy's car cuz he wanted to run the original arruminum one. My gearshift knob is the prototype arruminum one that was still on the lathe...has 'KK" instead of the shift pattern. It was also meant for Davy's car at the open house a few years ago. I needed it...made all the better that I just flat took it while Sammich pretended not to look. I always made a habit of wearing trail pants with big pockets at the open house...always filled with small stuff that I have no clue WTF they're for...carb linkage, etc. Got a whole box full of stuff...pedal arms with "KK" that I'm going to make into BBQ tongs someday.
But it has a Shelby arruminum block (my ass more than makes up for any weight savings)...despite being all dressed out old school...road draft tube for the breather, big carb, no pvc, the old aircleaner, toploader, etc. Why? am I purist? Not sure what the heck you call it, but I just wanted the car to act as much like one from the 60s as possible for the assperience (seat of the pants) rather than for the achievement of any dubious honor of having done it more "correct" than the next guy. Great on the street and track, but if I wanted a cost-effective track car, as I've said before after first seeing them...I'd have a JBL, or maybe even a Lister ("correctly" fitted with a SBC
).