[4pipes]

Alright, I'll go out on a limb here. If you don't want the real deal built in the '60's, for what ever reasons, the next best thing would be one that looked exactly the same and was dimensionally perfect.

This would provide you with a perfect replica that you could drive everywhere and not be concerned with damage, theft, or accumulated miles.

If that were the case, why wouldn't you want all the parts to have benefitted from 50 years of learning in casting, forging, metallurgy, switch craft, manufacturing processes?

IOW, why would you want all that old unreliable crap!