Why in the heck would you go through all the expense of restoration, only to completely butcher it like that?
If you want a fountain, why not restore a freaking fountain?
"I have here this lovely 63 Split Window Corvette - frame off restoration, but I decided I really wanted a pickup truck so I welded a pickup body to it."
(ok - a 42t isn't exactly a split-window Stingray... but hopefully you get the point)
