Jim,
I hate to disagree, but, the car had the original chrome valve covers and a Cal Custom-style air cleaner when it was parked in the barn in the early-1980's. Sometime in the 20+ years of storage somebody stole the valve covers, air cleaner, horn button, and radiator fan. So when I bought the car the seller had thrown on a nasty set of old M/T covers that post-dated the original Day Two build by at least a couple of decades. The engine was never run with the M/T covers, let alone was the car driven. To me, they didn't belong and I took them off. I also tossed out the two utility trailer tires somebody had put on in the last decade to roll the car around on, they had nothing to do with the original build either
Regardless, if you send $25k you can have your choice of valve covers - the M/T ones are here on the shelf collecting dust
I'm happy to swap them out.
Best regards,
Colin