Any designer worth their salt would insist on getting it right. God is in the details. And God would never be in the Home Depot looking for air cleaner bolts.
LOL, of course God would never be in Home Depot looking for air cleaner bolts. First, he's omniscient so he knows exactly where they are without looking, and second, it would be trivial for him to just bring NOS bolts into existance, already in the air cleaner and properly torqued without any wrench marks.
But my point was, if you were Harley Earl, would you drive the car or put it on a pedestal? Articles on his '63 Corvette indicate that it was a driver and often seen on the streets of West Palm Beach. He sold it to a retired Maryland Army veteran, who drove the car to California and back.