a wise man once told me there's "restorations" and then there's restorations, to fully restore a vehicle means to return it to it's original condition so no cheating on the engine, if you save £25k on the cost of the engine you will lose twice that on the final value due to it's non originality. having said that I personally don't have a problem with re engining a vehicle, it's horses for courses, do you want a show winner or something you can show !
i'm toying with the idea of fitting a mk4b meteor to the Churchill, it would be great to see the old girl overtaking a hellcat around the arena
rick