Are number matching or original components a big deal?

Ya it's up to you
My 2 bbl 65 cuda is 99% stock other than general maintenance. Still wouldn't restore it to stock too much money and not what I'm into.

Even if you had something rare and worth big bucks it's probably better to sale it to someone who's into that. And for A Bodies restoring anything less than big block is probably throwing away money. Even then it questionable.

I'm not one of them, but there are a lot of guys where money is no object>In some ways that's a good thing because they bring back vehicles we might not otherwise see.