Dilema

I'm with these guys.
It's your car, put it together how you would have ordered it for yourself if you could have when it was brand new.

I'm tired of all this emphasis on numbers-matching, date-coded restorations.
To me, all that means is the car is never going to be driven.

I'd much rather see an incorrect mopar cruising down the street then a perfect resto sitting on rare NOS Goodyear redlines at a car show.

That's why I say build the car to enjoy, not as an investment.

That's why I bought my Duster. I wanted something fun to drive with that old car smell and V-8 rumble, and it had to be a mopar simply because all the cool factory color schemes I could possibly repaint it into.

I went to school for car design, and my instructor Junior year was the man who headed up the design for the 1st and 2nd gen Barracuda, and the Duster.
I also knew the guy who designed the Belvedere that the Roadrunner and GTX were based off of.
They both thought the attention paid to keeping numbers matching while restoring old mopars was utterly ridiculous. They basically said that the cars were meant to be driven and enjoyed by their owners as inexpensive fun cars to cruise and race around in, and not meant for something as boring as sitting in front of judges, being rated on whether or not the paint on the engine grounding strap is correct or not.