Interesting concept.

My friend has an early 1960s Corvette concertible, with lots of chrome, but it's really in need of considerable restoration work. I wonder if I could talk him into chopping it to make it look like... perhaps a modern Japanese car - but with a huge spoiler wing and lots of jazzy neon paint? Yeah, I'll bet that given enough time, effort and expense, we really could make it look very modern and even paint it a candy purple and add a 3,000 watt sound system, and ground effects neon lighting just to be sure that everybody would look at it and "think" that it's actually a highly customized modern Mitsubishi Eclipse... Or, then again, we could just spend much less, buy a "real" generic, expendable, modern Japanese car - just like we'd be aiming at mimicing all along, and not even bother destroying his tattered old sports car.

Perhaps I should ask some vintage car collectors what they think?