Have you ever torn apart an all-original car to build what you wanted?

I bought the car in 1979 and like a MORON I started drag racing it. As it got quicker and faster I added a roll bar (just dumb) and it went downhill from there.

Then I bought a 64 Barracuda and sold that car in 1985. Just sickening.
Nothing wrong with that. I hate it got scrapped. There was a time in the late 90’s where everyone around here was scrapping to make supplemental income. All the salvage yards dried up as well and we lost a fair amount of solid cars. Stock or altered is always better than crushed.