Brent and Jeff, Who is Ray?
Point taken...and I intended no offense...a "professional" by definition is one who is paid, and at that point...conversation leads to "choices" either by the paid professional restorer and/or the owner. There are shops, like yours for instance, that will use OEM parts when available and feasible. Restoring a model A to an OEM status is challenging to the professional, and to the Owner, if they are not one in the same, a lot of money, and potentially, frustration. To some, like me, there is an intellectual challenge which lies there and burns, is unexplainable and often intangible. I have been restoring things; cars, building, stuff...all my life because I believe the older things were designed and constructed with a frame of mine toward maintenance and continuance. I also have a deep aversion to "change for the sake of change" which is an embedded stigma in today's culture. The good things I see are that, as you say, the car is not "pimped" out with white sidewalls, and that it will hopefully make it into the body of the Believers; someone who will hopefully continue to keep it running and in the slightly growing body of cars what will be continued in use and interpretation.
