Nah I am not missing the point, a survivor car is just that. It has survived, not been made to look like one through buying NOS parts and bolting them on.
If those falcons are not survivor cars then stuff the "experts". They are the cars people want to see. Warts and all cars in the condition that they were intended to be used in.
Seems to me that the people who determine what a survivor car is may well be the same weird people who buy brand new cars and lock them in garages and never drive them, hoping they will have the ultimate survivor car in years to come.
I hereby state that the official description of a survivor car is a load of crap. A true survivor car should be judged by spectators at a car show. They probably appreciate them more than the so called expert judges.