This has been thrashed over already ad infinitum on a thread called The Race Replica Debate., or at least until about page 5 when the thread was hijacked by some clown. There is ample provision for the creation of replicas and recreations, tribute cars for the most part, frankly are a crock of s@#t.

Nobody who knows what they are doing is seriously suggesting ALL the original components MUST be used and modern safety standards need to be included if the car is to be used in competition. However, absolutely, if verifiable knowledge of say the rivet pattern used is available why would you not replicate that.

It seems to me that the debate about how accurately a car should be rebuilt or replicated is driven by those too lazy or unskilled to do the job properly.