Common Sense vs Originality......Common sense loses!

Here's some more stupidity of the "Just as it left the factory" crowd.  Idiot #1. I sold a 1966 Mustang GT a few years ago. This car had the 225 hp 289, Rally-Pac guages, factory a/c, the pony interior, and the original "California Megaphone" exhaust system with date-coded mufflers intact. It also ran terrible becuase the original Holley carb had warped throttle shafts and was bleeding over badly and the distributor had so much slop in it, that you couldn't set the points or the timing for more than five minutes. After installing an Accel aftermarket distributor and a 500 cfm Edelbrock carb with an electric choke, it started easily, and would literally spin the tires as long as you wanted to stay on the throttle. I also took off the ugly black without hubcap steel wheels and skinny tires and put on some 14X7 Chrome Reverse wheels and "Baby Moon" hubcaps and white-letter 205/70/14 tires. The guy I sold it to removed the vinyl top and painted it a gorgeous Bright Blue metallic. He sold it for an exorbitant amount of money (even for a great numbers-matching car, it was exorbitant ). The guy who bought it proceeded to chase me down, buy the original carb and distributor back, spent nearly 2 grand getting them refurbished and removed the Edelbrock carb and accel distributor and re-installed the old parts. He also stripped the gorgeous blue paint job, put another vinyl top on it, painted it the uglier, lighter original blue, and took off the cool chrome wheels and fat ties put on skinny whitewalls with hubcaps. People literally asked him what he did with the "Cool Blue Mustang". When he said that was it, and that he'd "Made it Right" they shook their head in disbelief. He could have bought a beater '65-66 Mustang for a helluva lot less and done a complete resto on that and still had less money in it, than he had in mine, but It "Wouldn't be Original".  Like the Valley girls used to say- "Gag me with a spoon."  Idiot # 2. Bought a 1969 SS396 Chevelle. This one was "Period Correct"-it had Cragar Mags on it and a set of headers, an Isky cam of undetermined specs, and an original Edelbrock Torker intake-( The one where the carb sat at an angle ) and a 780 Holley. This thing ran like the proverbial scalded cat, and just sounded badass. If you wanted to record what a musclecar idle should sound like, this was it. He removed the headers and Edelbrock intake / Holley combo and put on stock exhaust manifolds, an iron intake and a quadrajet, and pulled the Isky cam and installed a factory L34 cam to make it "Completely Original".  Then he bitched and moaned that the car wasn't nearly as fast as it was before, and didn't sound as good!!  Gee, You think?!!  Idiot # 3 Didn't buy a way underpriced 1979 Trans-Am that was not only immaculately painted like a "Macho T/A" ( although it wasn't an original DKM Macho ) that also had a killer Traco-built 500 hp 350 Chevy, a Doug Nash 5-speed, and Recaro seats, because the serial numbers said it was orignally a 301 / 4-speed car, "And it would cost too much to put it back to original".  Huh? Why would you want a non-Turbo 301 T/A at all unless you could buy it dirt-cheap and were planning to swap in a 400 / 455 Pontiac or a small or big-block Chevy for an instant, massive power infusion? If you want a 77-81 301 Firebird there's plenty of those slugs around for low prices because no one wants them. This one really puzzled me, and if I'd had the money at the time I'd have bought this car. Like Comedian Ron White says- "You can't fix stupid."  Mastermind