There's enough junk out there to butcher....Can we please stop doing rare classics?!!

Once again I am mortally offended by a national magazine cover car. This one wins, hands down, the Hustler magazine award-"Asshole of the Month".  Once Again we have a modern  Z06 LS motor and a tremec five speed transplanted into ......A pristine Split-Window 1963 Corvette Sting Ray!!!!  This is so wrong on so many levels. # 1. General Principle. Don't desecrate an ultra-rare, one-year only classic. It would have still have been irritating, but I could understand if he did it to one of the thousands of 64-67 models out there, as long as it wasn't a 427 model. But a split-window??!!  # 2. Cost. The guy had over 100 grand in the car. For that, he could have bought a brand-new 638 hp supercharged ZR1 Corvette that will leave his hot-rodded '63 in the dust in a drag race or the twisties. Ditto for a new ZO6, and he'd still have 30 grand left in his pocket.  # 3. Ruined resale value. I hope he's going to keep the car until he dies, because he's never going to be able to sell it for anywhere near what he's got in it. And even if he is willing to take a substantial financial bath at sale time, he's still going to have a helluva time finding a buyer at any price. Think about it-if you were going to spend $50-100K on a 1963 Corvette you'd want it to be fuel-injected model,or at least a 300 or 340 hp model in perfect condition with the knock-off wheels and everything, not some hot rod with aftermarket guages, seats, wheels, suspension, and a modern LS motor!!  The cost to put it back the way it should be would be so prohibitive, that anyone with common sense will take their 50-100K and buy an already properly restored one, or buy one that needs a complete restoration for15-25K and spend the rest fixing it up. The car is sale-proof in my opinion any way you look at it.  Like I said in the title-there's still enough junk out there to play with. I have to commend another magazine for featuring the exact opposite. They featured a '66 Chevelle that someone had done up like a '60's gasser drag car. Radiused rear fenderwells, straight tube front axle, tunnel-rammed small-block, fiberglass bucket seats, the whole nine yards. I thought it was totally badass, and the guy built it for under 25K. That's because he started with a beater 2dr 1966 Malibu, that originally had a 327 and a Powerglide, of which Chevrolet sold about 400,000 of.  Now if he'd done the same to a numbers-matching four-speed SS396, we'd be storming his house with torches.  That's what I'm saying. If you want to cut up an old car and hot rod it any way you please, go do it. No one's saying you can't do what you want with your own car. But another Popular Hot Rodding cover car begged the same question. It was a 1972 Trans-Am with an LS motor, a 9 inch Ford rear, and an extensively modified interior and body. It said in the article the car was originally purchased as a "show car."  You want to pretend your Boyd Coddington or Chip Foose, fine.  You have to cut up one of the few remaining 1,286 1972 T/A's ever built??!!  You couldn't go buy one of  the about 4 million beater 1970-81 Camaros or Firebirds out there and F#$k that up?  That's all us "old-school" guys are saying. Put an SRT8 injected Hemi and five-speed german automatic in any beater 318 Challenger that you can find and enjoy it to your hearts content. But don't take a 440, 4-speed R/T model and do it, ok?  Leave the ultra-classic vintage iron for those that appreciate it. Mastermind