Thanks for your feedback sir. I will try my best to answer your query.
You see one can always choose to go all the way and restore a vintage, bringing in all the parts, investing money/time and putting everything in line to give her a new look, just the way she came off the assembly lines.
But once a vintage is restored, what one can not do is, to undo a restoration, to bring her to her original vintage character after all the years she has lived. One may have to wait for a few decades after restoration on her that she is back in her "character" once again but that too wont be the true character to match the one which she might have been in if had been left un-restored.
I see you have got a point but the point that I am trying to make is that you can always go ahead and restore a car this original to its factory specs anytime you want but to keep it weathered and blemished is the character that I want to retain on her for now until its time when I feel that the car should be restored (that I may not feel ever at all - may be my son does, for whom I've bought her off, a couple of decades down the road).
I have seen way too many vintages restored and it kind of makes me think why just cant ppl bear the cars with their original character instead of going for a restoration on them. I just want to retain the character on a bug than the shiny whiny show car.
Unlike many (my family included), I am not shy to proudly drive her around with all the rusty outlook/missing chunks steering wheel/beaten fenders/torn apart seats and door panel boards/with very less or no paint at all. Trust me I drive her around with a satisfaction within and I am not even a bit embarassed when ppl mock her for her general outlook or laugh at the way she is hauling the roads among the latest cars (even my family just dont want to ride her because of the mocking gazes she receives wherever she goes). But have I bought her to please others or to derive personal satisfaction out of owning her? Why she gets to get parked inside the porch while our cities and cultuses and land cruisers are parked outside the house, in streets because of space limitations? Just because she is more value to me than any others even in her current state.
As far as @mohsinikram's 1952 Split Window Beetle is concerned, have had I been in his shoes I would have chosen for a full resto too because she is the only yet known Split Window Beetle and it belongs to our VW Heritage at large, and it must be preserved for our generations to come. If she doesn't get restored, our younger generations may not be able to see a living Split Window Beetle here in Pakistan ever which is surely not the case with a 1965 Beetle.
I am sourcing every single bit to make it possible to restore her whenever required/decided but first I wanted to make an attempt to keep her as is, at least until I have her possession before she passes into the hands of my son.
I hope I could make my point to you. Please keep visiting the thread for your feedback.
