Show versus Project cars..who has more fun?

Some cars are just too difficult to bring back to show standards. In a way, this relieves a lot of pressure on the owner. We have long ago lost the innocent era where good driving big blocks were ten thousand dollar cars and an excellent one touched $22,000, tops. Intense pressure is forced upon hobbyists to put a car back to original as close as possible. Trouble is, some cars are never going to able to meet that. A good case in point is Hemmings Muscle Machines' March 2008 cover car. Here is a meticulously restored 1970 Hemi Charger with enough documentation to justify the current national debt. Fabulous colors, great options, build sheet, dealer invoices, the list goes on. Small problem though, the original engine grenaded on an interstate highway in 1976. Steve Segal got really lucky finding what turned out to be the very next hemi engine on the assembly line. It's about as close as it'll ever get to numbers matching. Steve enjoys his car and doesn't worry about getting it a little sideways once in awhile. He's a lucky man, the stress is off. My way of viewing the hobby is a little different from most people. We are never going to see an age like the 1960s again for performance. The really good ones that are solid, numbers matching desirable cars are eventually going to be too risky to drive like we used to. I see cars with missing drivelines as opportunities to go back 20 years and build a car up the way tou want it to be without stress, guilt and expense where you didn't want to spend money in the first place. I don't hate clones, they have a place in our hobby. I hate people who deliberately mis represent their cars for profit, but not the cars. The cars are victims.Now, just look at this little beauty for example. A 1972 GTO 455HO car in Lucerne Blue with buckets. It has no engine or transmission and the front end is rough, rough, rough. Looks like a great place to start a driver project doesn't it? You could weld up the frame rails and make it a boxed chassis for strength and then drop in a nice 468 and built TH400. The possibilities are endless.