Keep it stock, or make it your own?

My ‘65 is a basket case. I will not be returing it to original,as it isnt worth the time or money. Had i not grabbed it, it would be soup cans by now.
It is going to be driven,and good from far/far from good and i really dont care what a purist thinks.
Take a factory original car,turn one bolt. It is no longer factory original. So purist all you want,
I support the hobby and really appreciate what an imaginative mind can do,moreso if its done with their own two hands.

Its an art form in thy own eyes.