I agree that it was there car and they had a right to do whatever they wanted to it but, I think it was too nice to chop up, if it was a tired/ neglected or amature restoration, I could see chopping it up. Think of how it must have made the guy who sold it feel, it was in his faimily for a long time and he probably restored it himself as he owned a restorations & hotrod shop. I also think the model T is overlooked, people don't realize that without the model T coming out in 1912, mass produced vehicles may not have come out until the 30's, it was only because 1 person ( Henrey Ford ) that cars were mass produced in 1912, people don't realize how versatile model T's were, they were designed to be useful as farm vehicles, they could go off road fairly well. I think that Boyd may have done it to P$^# off restorers because I don't think he appreciates restorations. A guy in my town has 1926 Ford Model T that is compleatly restored, it's been in his faimly for ages, his grandfather may have bought it new but I'm not shure, he also has a compleatly restored 1948 Dodge Convertible and he has a 1936 ford hotrod F#$@ up, someone took a compleatly restored 1936 Ford convertible, cut off the body so all that was left was the dash forward, it was going to be turned into some type of bucket, his show/driver is a 1970's linclon, compleatly original/ unrestored. A guy I met at his lawn sale was selling a restored 1931 Model A 3W w/ rumble seat, we looked at it and he said, if you want a hotrod, this isn't it. He invited me into his shop, he had a slightly customized '59 Fairlaine 500 hardtop, he also had a compleatly unrestored 1925 ( I think ) model T pickup, drivable and only a few paint chips on the original paint job, he said it was a guys he knew and he died or somthing and his son was going to turn it into a doodlebug and he stopped him and bought it from him.