Here's the dilemma....

[Bell72]

I am in the process of restoring my 72 Sierra grande ( it was near perfect when I started ) and I'm stuck between returning it to the original build sheet specs....

or to build it to the style that I like. For example It has all the original parts on it now but I want to put a crome rear bumper instead of the painted step bumper and instead of the towing mirrors I want to put the classy crome rec. mirrors. The air horns in the picture are comming off and the front grill is being recromed as we speak. The truck is being repainted because the previous job was less that perfect and I,m rebeding the box with crome rails and oak boards.

I guess the question is will the trucks value diminish if the final restoration is slightly different than the build sheet?

Mark