"Period Correct" modifications are cool......Putting a new car under an old body isn't!!

I'm not one of those "Just as it left the factory" nuts. If I bought a 2013 Camaro SS right now I seriously doubt if I would leave it bone-stock for the next 20 years or however long I owned it. Chances are I'd add a K&N air cleaner assembly, a cat-back exhaust, a Hypertech power chip, and maybe even a cam. I might add some aftermarket wheels or a Hurst Shifter. Well, the same was true 40 or 50 years ago. A 1968 SS396 Chevelle with a Hurst Comptition Plus shifted Muncie 4-speed, a set of headers, Cragar S/S mags, and a 780 Holley sitting sideways on an original Edelbrock Torker intake is just as cool now as it was in 1970. A '68 Camaro with a modern LS motor, six-speed automatic, a DSE front subframe and rack and pinion steering and 20 inch Center Lines is not cool. A '55 Chevy with a snarling, solid-lifter 327, a 4-speed, with bucket seats out of a '64 Impala, a stright front axle, and a 4.88:1 geared '63 Pontiac rear end and Chrome reverse rims is just as badass as it was in 1965. A '55 Chevy with a Z06 'Vette motor, a Tremec five-speed, a fully independent suspension with 19" steamroller tires and Recaro seats is not cool, even if it's faster and better handling than the "Old School" one. You buy an old car because iut's totally different from what's new. The viscereal driving experience is what your buying. If you were a motorcycle enthusiast would you buy a 1973 Kawasaki Z1 and try to make it run and handle like a 2010 ZX-12 Ninja? would you swap the Ninja powerplant into the old frame? Probably not. If you were an airplane collector-would you buy a WWII vintage P51 and try to make it like a Modern Cessna?  If you were a gun collector would you buy an 1873 Henry rifle and put a scope on it? Would you buy a WWII vintage Colt .45 and put laser sights on it?  Mopar Action magazin just featured a '69 Road Runner that not only had a 2011 SRT8 Hemi Charger powertrain, it had the suspension and the interior grafted in! Now, this person had to spend at least 20 grand for a good condition '69 Road Runner, and then another 45 grand for a 2011 SRT8 Charger, so he could butcher them both!! So this guy has a least 65K in this abomination. If he loved the Charger's performance and seats and guages, etc-why didn't he just drive that? I'd like to have a '69 Road Runner, but I'd buy a restorable 383 model and stuff a Mopar Performance 426 crate Hemi in it, not a modern fuelie setup! These people are like cockroaches-they just keep multiplying. But I still don't get it, and I never will. Mastermind