[computerworks]

What a delight, Turk...civil conversation on a "What is the best..." thread!

Let me kick in a few bits here...

First, originals were not as all distorted from car to car as one would believe from legend. A lot of the "fun house mirror effects" are from those magnificent "restorations" and re-body jobs.

...but, it was a hand made car...so variances did exist.
The accurate splashing by Contemporary of an early 30xx car resulted in a nice 'glas replica with one droopy headlight. :-)

As is with the Kirkhams. Many folks quote the "digitizing" and the mirror image stuff about the KMP, claiming perfect symmetry.

Not so. The source 'drawings' of the KMP were from CAD, and that was used to make the forms, etc.

...but, Kirkhams are not popped out of a big stamping press... they are hand formed and pounded and welded just like they do ( and did) on all limited production aluminum cars.

The Kirkham body has about 17 discrete panels that are combined to create the car, pounded, welded and filed.

You will see difference on KMPs as well.