restoration!!!

[etilit]

i got an email about a 47 ford truck that ford company bought for 800 thousand dollers...it was only one of a very few.. 35 i think...but as im reading through this..i see its been restored...but with modifications...so my question is this? doesnt restoration mean its brought back to its original point?

 

[bigsal]

Looks like a job well done.

 

[Tjerk12]

It depends on what you want to do with it. Imagine I would buy a Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle and I wanted to restore it. I would like to ride it, enjoy the bike. But in that case I would fit a modern shock absorber in the cantilever system, use modern brake material and fit Dunlop TT100 tyres. You can't see the difference, but it is a lot safer to ride with it.
But when someone just want to place it in a museum, than it is logical that he tries to do all things original.

 

[brmstn69]

It was a Hoax. After the story was published on several websites, one of the authors was presented with enough evidence to make him dig a little deeper. Among his discoveries was the fact that the McCullough supercharger was discontinued in 1940, 7 years before the truck was made, so it couldn't have been a factory installed option. He also contacted the Ford museum, who had never heard of this truck...