Everybody wants numbers matching cars. The most important thing to me is when I go out a take a first look at my car do I like it. Color, quality of car, what car it is etc. Numbers to me are after you get through all that. If everything looks correct you have to bend over hard to try to see the numbers. Half the time you don't know if they are re-stamped or original. As long as a 302 is a 302 and carb, and carb linkage, and intake and so forth are correct
then you are close. I feel original to the car is worth more and makes you feel better, but how much? I would rather have a perfect body and high class resto than all matching on a #2-3 car. 90% of the cars that I see are non-numbers cars. Lets junk them?? Where I live you can't buy anything that I would want for less than 25-30 thousand, and those cars are weak. JMO Sam