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Check out “Year One” retro-mods
SPEED Channel often features them
A “Smoky” Pontiac Trans-Am series has been made
All the body panels, bumpers, interior goodies, trim, suspension and brake updates - rear-coil for MoPars - etc.
It only takes money
A Barrett-Jackson Auction mid-50s T-Bird or late 60s Camaro restoration or retro-mod can (often) be bought for less than a dumb new Toyota Sushi-SS or Honda Uglyville-GT
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Original “colors” are available - but FED Regs make water-based clearcoats the thing now
We built/swapped AC-(Bristol)-Vettes in Florida before Shelby saw and copied them a few years later with smaller slower Ford SB engines)
Thanks for the information.