Leave it alone or restore it

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]If you had a Challenger that was an RT and didn't get the longitudinal stripe, let's say it was stripe delete, you would have got very similar to where you see this RT, you would have actually got a badge that said RT, a physical bolt-on badge right there. My value system might be a little bit different than some people's. In this case, mostly original paint, but it's not perfect. Original stripe, but it's not perfect. Is it okay to be on a survivor car? Yeah. If the other things, if the peripheral things around it, if the seat inserts were perfect, if the carpet was perfect, then they're not. We've got a headliner sagging down on it. So, we could peacemeal it. We could do the headliner.

[00:00:40]We could fix that. We could put seat inserts in it. We could touch up the paint where it needs to be touched up.

[00:00:45]But, is it a survivor anymore, or has it been worked over? What's the owner of the car seen? In the case of our Daytona, he bought the car brand new.

[00:00:53]He's seen it like that. He knows what it looks like. He's not impressed anymore.

[00:00:57]He wants it to look the way it did when it rolled off the showroom floor.