[DTurnbull]

Originally Posted by A-Snake

If I missed your point, I apologize. I though I was commenting to your statement;

"It appears, to me anyway, that many people jump into building and/or buying these cars without necessarily much interest to their history or stories in the beginning."

If people are going to "jump" into buying a car that has been built/assembled by someone other than a (what should I call them) major manufacturer of finished vehicles their first concern should be the quality of the build, not whether the car has wheels or rivots that match an original car. (Perhaps I shouldn’t have left the word ‘first’ out.)

Again, if one is building a car and has no interest in the history of the original cars, build it the way you like keeping the quality/safety issue in mind. This would be the same approach as building a resto rod using a repro body/chassis.

Maybe we mis-read each other. Apologies here too. My main point was there ought to be a good reference simply because there isn't one.