This car begs the question, how much of a car do you need to replace before its a different car? Even though the vin, cowl and fender tag say one thing, once you replace most of the sheetmetal is it really "restoring" a car? Or, is it building a car? I've owned a lot of cars over the years and seen some pretty bad cars "restored". This challenger for example, The only original sheetmetal will be the roof,firewall, and inner fenders. Possibly the doors. I have better doors but want to use the originals on principal. Its not that this car in particular is anything special, thats why I am putting it together and not caring about changing the color, putting a 512 in it and giving it to my daughter to drive to high school in. If it were a big block R/T then I would have reservations about even saving it. In my mind once a car gets bad enough, its dead. Restoring it is really just making a "tribute" car that happens to have a desirable vin. The car that it was is gone. The restored cars that were basket cases are still beautiful cars and I appreciate all the hard work, time, and money that went into them. Especially before they were worth so much damn money, those were truly labors of love.
Just my opinion and you know what they say about opinions