which is best- c.e. or date correct motor?

[Verne_Frantz]

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One that would get full points in NCRS-type judging - dated, numbered, broach marks etc.

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Zedder, I respectfully disagree with your answer to JoeG. Just because an engine can win the most points at an NCRS event does NOT mean it's a properly done "restoration" motor. A car that scores a PERFECT score at an NCRS national event is not necessarilly the most historically ACCURATE restoration of that car. It only means that the car was done to NCRS guidlines.

I guess my overall point is that any car deserves to be restored to it's former original condition, just for it's own sake, and to preserve a piece of history for other people to learn from long after we're all long gone. As time passes and we learn more, I hope more people realize that a "restoration" should be a depiction of a car just as it was originally built. If changes are made to a car during restoration that deviate from the way it was delivered new, just because someone wrote a guideline about how it "should" be done, then the purpose of the restoration was to win a $10. trophy (or claim the status from the award to gain more money) rather than to accurately preserve the history of the car.

The CAR is the MOST important thing. The most important thing is NOT winning an award or increasing the car's value. I guess I'm just living in a idealistic world......I can't help my views. No offense meant.
I would rather leave off a $10. item from a car I restored exactly as original and sacrifice the peddigre of a national award and the $10K+ more it would be worth if restored to someone's guideline for the sake of restoring it exactly as original.

I guess preserving history happens to be more important to me than changing something for the sake of a short term personal gain during our little speck in history.

Verne