Plenty of truth here. I remember once some very cranky old mechanic saying about some schit box,
"this thing has been worked on by everybody and nobody good!" 
I often remember that.
I specialize in restoring old stuff and I can't over emphasize how much value there is on originality, i.e. not having been "improved" by some jackwad over the years. People often wrongly disparage super low mileage vehicles and it's true that they often need a lot of attention but I'd rather have something built by Germans 40-50 years ago than "built" by some pissed-off moron in Arizona or Kansas any day of the week.
I was salivating over Grady's '68 911 and should have bought it for $80k or whatever it went for. Just to have that car that had only been touched by the factory and him...sigh.
