Quote Originally Posted by adam perth View Post
for sure, when doing a resto, grab the stuff as close as possible to your rebuild, and if a part better suited to your build comes along, grab that too and sell the other one if you have to.
This is exactly how I think now too. After going through 6 years of searching for bits, for a car that (when I started) was half the age & more common than what you guys are playing with, I learnt that if you chase every last date code, you'll never get it done.

If it's close, I've grabbed it. Try finding a VL tailgate with no rust & then tell me you're worried about the date code being 2 months off all the other panels on the car.....

But, anything that came off the car that was already the right code was refurbed/restored, regardless of whether or not I had a better one with the wrong code - as long as the finished result was as good as new.

I'd much prefer to be out there driving it around & enjoying it, rather than worrying about finding another rear door 1/4 glass because the existing one is 1 month different to all the other bits of glass.