I've done the show-car scene for over a decade with a variety of cars, and the "original" tag is over-rated. I knew of one colleague that would show his early Vette (back when I was showing ours) and scoffed at the shiny paintwork on the competitor's cars' and prided himself and keeping his faded, cracked paint because it was "original".
Well, that got the best of him one year and he changed his tune...showed up the next season with a fresh paint job...
The owners with the completely restored cars got the highest awards but silently grumbled about getting a "driver" so that they could at least enjoy driving the car to places other than on and off a flatbed trailer.
And because the laws of entropy are always in force, the value of a restored car is related to the age of the resto...you can restore a car to new specs in 1994, but today, it still has 10-year old seals, rubber, etc.
I have a resto-custom 73 VW that took top awards in 97 prior to moving to Texas. After leaving outside for one season, the deterioration was dramatic! If I want to ressurect the car back to show standards, I would have to do (and spend) nearly half of the outlay it took to do the original resto...and factor inflation, and I'm probably looking at spending probably the same...
Cars are meant to be enjoyed and driven, not placed on a pedestal and admired. And speaking of admire, Jay Leno is an avid car collector that believes in the same mantra...