By what I've just seen (been busy the last few days) I'm amazed you're still pondering about this.
I don't know whether to hate you or love you (well your work and vision anyway). On the one hand I'm thinking "how dare you do this to cars and utes that were the things of my dreams" when, as a youth in NZ back in the 50's, drooling over the pages of various hot rod magazines and after much saving, the owner (at 19 or 20), of a 1937 Ford business man's coupe'. (paid 360NZ pounds, about US$1450 at the time) when a '40 Ford coupe' (the ultimate dream, apart from a 46-48 club) was selling in US caryards for $75.
Although there is some common ground. The aforesaid '37, I put on it's roof and bent it quite badly (if it had been a modern car with it's safety? crumple zones or as I call them "self wrapping coffins"), I probably wouldn't be here to tell the tale, so i guess I'm in the 'prototype wrecker' business. At least I still have the scar in my scalp as a keepsake.
No reason you and I should be at odds --- other than that I actually GOT the 40 Ford Coupe and for 175 US Dollars at that when I was 20.
Put a 324 inch bored out 50 Olds motor in it.
I was a hotrodder from an early age --my First car was a 47 Chev. convt--with a bored out GMC 6 cyl. ( another 324 incher!) got that when I was 14--- cost me 112.50 $ --- no driver lic. needed in my state at that time -- lic. law was not passed till 1960 or so.
I wanted to get a 40 Ford Convt. with a full race Flathead (296 inch) for 150 $ but I made the mistake of telling my dad when he asked " sounds like a nice car , hows the motor" . I stupidly told him "thats the best part , Its a full race flat head !
You ain't buying no hot rod Ford boy" and he stuck to it! When I found the Chevy , and asked the same question , I told him only that it was a 6 cylinder!
I always wanted to build a 27 T roadster , on a deuce frame, and haunted Junk yards looking for a 10 dollar or so roadster body , but even in the 60's 27 bodies were scarce, I was part of a 3 way partnership that ran
a 27 roadster in C Fuel class , but wanted one of my own for street. Never found one but did see a lot of junkyards , saw some cars then for next to nothing that I still can't believe I did not jump on! One Yard in Salt Lake City had, about 1961, 2 Chevy convts , a 40 and a 41 that were complete except a fender or other small items , not wrecked , just plain run out and tired. They could have been had for 25 bucks, of course at the time I was only making 175 bucks a month and had just got married , a bit different now than when I was single, living at home and bought the other hot rods.
Perhaps that explains why I like junk yards enough to build one, my kids all understand , they grew up being hauled to junk yards all over the place and remember it fondly even my daughter. Lucky guy , I am!
Dave
....Don't get you started....
......just kidding....keep 'em coming.... I really like the watch parts for timing gears. 
Any way Carols Cobra had torn up many more tires than expected and he was out of tires -- he sent me over to another racer to buy a couple from him -- the guy wanted about 5 times what they should have cost 
, so I went back and told him that --- thats when he gave me that little gem that has stayed with me ever since , AND I went back and got the tires , A Shelby Cobra won that DAY! I have no idea how the italics got turned on and I can't seem to shut them off! 
