Quote Originally Posted by Wally View Post
This might help - I am a carpenter and so was my dad and I have in my possession a 650 year old hammer that has handed down through the family for all those years as a family heirloom. Here's the thing - it has had 45 new heads and 238 new handles but is 650 years old . We have really kept it in good condition!!! You were saying?
This is a very poor example for an argument against..... In this case a car would have to have had a body and engine swap... And then later had a chassis swap..... In which case it is no longer an original Sandman.....

the ID of a car is in the tags and chassis.

i sold my HX Monaro before restoring it as the front chassis rail with the chassis number had been replaced with a HQ one after an accident. I considered it to have lost it's identity and not worth the money to restore it as it would never be accepted as an original Monaro. Other have a different opinion on this also.