Originality-does it matter?

You gotta remember that my Dad grew up in rural Kentucky during the Depressions. In the twenties and thirties, his family didn't even have a car half the time. Never had a new one. Did whatever needed to be done to keep them running. If it gave them problems, trade it for a cow or a horse. From the beginning of the Depression until he moved to Ohio in 1939, Grandpa didn't even have a job. They rented farms for practically nothing, grew their own crops, hunted for dinner, etc. From the forties on, Grandpa always had a car, but never a new one. For a dozen years, Dad drove older flathead Fords. Finally got his first Mopar in 1953, and it was a used car. But neither he nor anyone else was interested in keeping them perfectly original, and his Model T/bailing wire mentality never really left him, even as some of his stuff was beginning to become collectible by the time he passed away in 1984.