>Why haven't we/they run across them at some point and photod/asked about/duplicated them during concourse restos?<

I cannot answer the question because it requires the operative of someone else’s brain.

As for a concourse resto, I have never seen a concourse restoration because all of them are them are constructed incorrectly. I’m not thinking I know, and I’m not stating my opinion. I’m posting true-test, photo-documentation how these cars were built, so it’s not my fault that a concourse-built car, exactly how the factory built it, doesn’t match someone’s opinion of how they think the car should be built.

Look at the picture I posted at the “where’s the vin #” post, my up-skirt shot. Notice the shims/spacers just above the two spot welds. The car is covered with these shims/spacers, and they vary in thickness depending on application. I pulled a couple more photos and erased arrows to reference the shim locations.

If someone wants to play the concourse-resto game when it comes to getting the paint just so, notice the triangle of orange in the first picture. That’s where the car was was sitting in the jig when they painted the undercarriage, likewise for the other side. Every concourse-resto looks like Johnny’s polystyrene model car. Show me just one car whereby the builder assembled the chassis, exactly the way the factory did.

As for numbers, they’ll let little Johnny take a crayon and scribble something on the car that never came on the car, claiming it’s attention to detail. But they don’t play the number games, when the numbers slap you in the face. There are more, that are obsure, but the trunk and gutter stamps slap you in the face. What about the crimped metal on the quarter where it meets the filler panel?