"The supply of exceptional unrestored cars is necessarily much smaller than the supply of restorable cars, and as collectors move in and begin restoring, the best preserved cars become rarer than perfect restorations".
The bulk of the stela contains the text of the code, partly erased on the obverse but restorable in some measure from clay-tablet versions of the same laws.
The newly found haul of recordings has been repaired in part, but Mr Damazer said: "Not all of it was restorable".
"It is hidden, but it is still in the country and still restorable".
With its intact windshield and a body that appears to be fairly complete, it should be restorable, Mr. Strohl said.
The Last Supper is now "absolutely restorable", said Frosinini.
But that action first requires an inspection to assure that the mural is still restorable.
"It is not restorable to what it was, but it is restorable in some ways".
Mr. Holzer said that large pieces, including the archangel's face, were intact, and that, late in the day, the conclusion was that the piece was "eminently restorable".
Mr. Govier cites a case in which an enterprising Midwesterner produced 10 to 12 vehicle identification plates with authentic Hemi 'Cuda numbers and attached them to restorable cars.
In Britain after World War II, for instance, restorable bomb-damaged buildings made way for modernist schemes later revealed as shoddy and cheap; at the same time, in Continental Europe, classical composers treated 1945 as "year zero", rejecting all tradition.
