Your attention to detail is amazing. I am torn, because I feel these cars should be driven, and I am not sure a car will be used after this level of restoration.
seems as though recently the path suggested by some is to: restore, then collect the significant awards, and after that start driving (need the "peel out" smilie here)
Some of us really do restore and then drive. I had mine restored to “near” perfection. (I don’t believe there is such a thing as a truly perfect car.) Correct overspray patterns, production line parts, the whole ball of wax. Started driving it the day it came home. I skipped collecting the significant awards because that’s not important to me.
It’s all a matter of priorities, and mine is driving. But I’m happy that not everyone thinks like me. I enjoy looking at the concours winning trailer queens. And I admire the knowledge and skill that goes into a project like that.
BTW, using 50-plus year old, factory, production line electrical parts is not the hot tip of the day for reliability. You can probably figure out how I learned that. Ha, ha!
Steve