Bastardize Junk, not rare collectibles!!

I got in a pretty heated debate with the editor of a national magazine the other day. I told him he should change the name of the publication to "Modern Fuelie Swap Monthly" since every month for as long as I can remember they have featured pages and pages of Vintage GM Iron with Chevy LS motors, Vintage Mopars with 5.7 / 6.1 Hemis, and vintage Fords with 4.6 / 5.4 mod motors. He knew I had this site, and I had contributed articles to his magazine as well as others. He accused me of being a "Just as it left the factory Nazi." I told him he knew better, as he had featured my Hurst/Olds in his magazine, and it definitely isn't stock. My problem, I tried to explain, is that there are apparently too many people out there with more money than brains that butcher rare, classic muscle. I quoted three articles from one issue of his magazine. The cover car was a 69 Chevelle. The article read-"The car was a for-real, numbers-matching 4-speed, SS396 in pristine condition."  Then they tell how he put in the LS motor and six-speed automatic, and aftermarket suspension. Another one showed the same being done to a 1970 GTO Judge!!  The owners of these cars couldn't buy one of the literally millions of beater 2-door GM A-bodies produced between 1968-72-Non SS Chevelles, Pontiac Tempest / LeMans, Non 442 Cutlass, or non GS Buick Skylark or Century and butcher it?  No, it had to be a "Pristine for-real, 4-speed SS396" and a numbers-matching Judge!!  The same mag had a guy who did this to a 1972 Trans-Am that had "Been purchased as a show car several years before."  Again, you can't desecrate one of the millions of 1970-81 beater Camaros or Firebirds out there, it has to be one of 1,286 455HO T/A's left on the planet! This car really perplexed me. What did he do with the rare, Ram Air IV headed, Aluminum Intaked, 455HO engine that came in the car? If he wanted to "Restify" that he could have got 500 or 600 hp out of that for a lot less than the 13 grand his LS Crate motor cost. Secondly, he put DSE front and rear subframes and suspension on it. Why? To improve handling? I don't think so. Stock, '70's T/A's are awesome handlers. In the late '70's Herb Adams had them pulling close to .88 G on the skidpad, with '70's tire technology. For comparison sake, according to Road and Track magazine tests this is about what an SRT8 2010 Challenger, and what a 2010 SS Camaro can do with modern rubber. If he'd put urethane bushings, Koni shocks, and 275/40ZR17 Goodyear Eagles or BFG Comp T/A's on it, he'd probably surpass that figure easily. Other issues of this mag in successive months featured a 1970 Super Bee with a 6.1 Hemi and a GM six-speed automatic conversion, a 1970 Challenger R/T with the same, and a formerly 428 engined 1969 Mach 1 with a 4.6 mod-motor and Tremec six-speed. Again, why not a beater Coronet, or six-cylinder or 302 generic Mustang coupe? I don't begrudge anyone building any kind of car they want, but I don't understand why you wouldn't buy say, a Pontiac LeMans, and put all the modern electronic wizardry on it that you want, and paint it like a Judge, if that's the look you want, rather than destroy a valuable piece of history. I know the modern fuelie motors are the way of the future, just like the small-block Chevy eclipsed the Flathead Ford. But let's feature them in the cars they came in! I'll read about a 2008 Charger with a blown Hemi, or a 2010 Camaro with a 454 inch LS stroker and nitrous, or a new Boss 302 Mustang with a pumped 5.0 Coyote. But I don't want to see that "Coyote" motor in a 1969 Boss 302! To all you rich guys out there, do what you want with junk, but don't destroy priceless muscle because you can afford to. Leave the numbers-matching Judges and Super Bees for those of us that want them the way they are!! Please. Mastermind