Part of the issue is that a lot of the (North American) body restoration lingo
originated in the body-on-frame days, and when it's applied to
unit-construction cars then varying interpretations can carry good or bad
connotations depending on where you stand.
These are rhetorical questions, by the way:
- On an Alpine or Tiger, what's a "front clip" or a "rear clip"?
- WTF is a "frame-off restoration"?
- "numbers matching"?
TAC:
TAC only applies to the chassis. Anything that can be unbolted from the
chassis is unimportant in the eye of the TAC inspector. TAC concerns stuff
that the chassis builder (Pressed Steel and Jensen) either added to the
chassis sheetmetal, or stuff that was never installed, to the base bodyshell.
TAC also considers the method by which those various pieces were put together
or changed. One or two missing details does not negate the presence of a bunch
of other details, when those other details are irrefutable evidence of
Jensen's handywork.
Cheers,
Theo
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