Reply to "I got a question for the numbers buff."

I should maybe explain better. I have fantasies in my mind about what all I want to do with the car. Some of them get pretty wild with turboes and actualy changing air flow and wicked racing crap.
But I think I have a somewhat rare car and I shouldn't cut it up and weld on a bunch of crap that wasn't supposed to be there. I mean I have always liked the wide bodys and I think a wide body on a Pantera, especialy clones, is way cool. I think theclones are probably better than the originals cause there are things about the original wide bodys that were problematic.
But anyway, I think I should try and keep my car original looking as much as possible. Try ame make it look for the most part like what it was. Like for instance, it came with a holley 4 barrel. I always thought it was aftermarket until I did some research. It has the carb that came on the car. How cool is tHat?? Now I know it will never be a number matching show winner, in fact I don't even want a car like that. I don't like car shows anymore cause they are too much work and worry.
Here is what I want to do. Someday after I have saved up enough money, I want to take the car completely apart. I want to take off all the paint and get it down to bare metal, just like the big boys do. I want to weld up every seam that is just tack welded, get rid of all the lead, maybe add some hidden re-enforcement and smooth out the underside somewhat, and then put it all back together and re-paint it the samecolor it was from the factory. And I like the lettering on the side, I know some don't but I like it, so it stays. :P
And I am going to like, hide the improvements. Like the engine will look on the outside stone GTS stock, but inside it will have a hydraulic roller cam and titanium valves and a dry sump oil system, only it will allbe hidden away. And like gauges will have the original faces even if the internals are all new. Stuff like that. Now I know all this costs nmore, but I got another twenty years or so to get it all done. I think I got that long anyway, but none of us know for sure how long we got.
Anyway, that was why I was asking. Thanks for all your help.