I can here the crying now...if Craig said he was going to restore it to be the 1968 version of the car
No crying from me. I just value your opinion. I would rather hear from you on how it should be restored rather than from Craig Jackson. He's a "used car salesman" through and though. Yes he has a passion for Shelby's but he would tell you anything to pump up the value of what is in his possession.
I would rather hear the opinion/truth from an enthusiast first and a salesman second. The enthusiast, who happens to have an excess of knowledge, will tell you as it is. The salesman will just sugar coat it.
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To say that it should be restored to the final version, using how it was found as that criteria doesn't solve the problem definitively either.
Take for example how the Green Hornet was found. It had been stripped of things like the Conelec and the IRS. Is that the final version? Not really but there needs to be a Referee on clarification and we are presuming that in fact we know the last configuration the car was in while "the factory" still had it. IMO it isn't necessarily completely black and white.
I think that is just part of deciding to what KNOWN period the car can be restored to.
There are other non-"Shelby Mustang" cars as of recent this applies to. The 289 Cobra that Steve Juliano restored, Shelby's CSX 3015, the GT40 "Roadster" that started as a coupe, that they just cut the roof off of. So it isn't as black and white as it seems. Someone in authority needs to make a judgement on that.