Hi PB,
By the way, I also feel the same way about antique cars. This is especially true for antique high performance Mustangs, which are my favorite cars. Too many people modify them and turn them into "resto mods". In my opinion, they "ruin" them when they do that. I wish that people would leave them alone and keep them as original as possible.
About the only exception to that would be antique high performance Mustangs built during the "gas crisis years" (1979-1981). Now that those cars are antiques, I understand the need to modify them because they
had horrific engines. Those Mustangs came from the factory with either a "sleeved down" 5.0 liter V8 engine (a 4.2 liter engine in a 5.0 liter engine block) that produced only 115 horsepower, or a 2.3 liter 4 cylinder Pinto engine with a turbocharger that was extremely unreliable and
had a tendency to "self destruct" when it
had very low mileage. Because of world events that were beyond their control, Ford was forced to "ruin" (or "neuter") those cars at the factory when they were brand new. In my opinion, this is the equivalent of
bronze disease on an ancient coin.
Meepzorp