I prefer the original, but.
You can never tell where something like this ends up. A friend of mine took several Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciali's (Not sure on the spelling.), and cut them up, lowered them, widened them, eventually lengthened them and raced them. He was pretty roundly criticized within the Alfa community for destroying somewhat rare cars, as he tells it.
Eventually, he just started making his own version, the Alfa Romeo SSZ Stradale. He sold them as roller kit cars for both road and track uses. Here's some info on them: Alfa Romeo SSZ
Just this past year, someone started making a knockoff, essentially a kit car of a kit car.
Ya just never know...
Edit: I should add a link to Tom's Motorama museum . He's got tons of cool stuff there: 1 of 2 1952 Alfa Disco Volante prototype cars, an uncut Devin body (maybe the last in the world), and Elvira @ approx. 2100# & 1000 hp (last car on the SSZ link) which Tom describes as 1/2 cool and sexy and 1/2 scary.
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