I think it's cool what you're doing. Heck, if you like it well enough you could refurbish them and sell them to lazy people who won't do the work on their own ;-)
Actually (and this is just between you and me) I'd like to show it! Not to win anything (but that would be nice)...but just to show people our handiwork! It's why we want to put it back to almost just the way it was...not custom at all! It's called "stock". It's gonna be hard...and I don't know if we can even do it. But we're going to try. (And a lot of shows allow for some non-stock repairs if stock is no longer available...but only "some"...the closer to stock, the better.)
Plus (and again, just between you and me) I think it would be fun to drive it in a parade with the jedis!
Now I'm really nervous, because like I say...we don't live in the best neighborhood. I don't want to have to hide what we're doing though, because everyone is so tickled and they wave and such when they drive by! But you never can tell what someone is thinking.
Don't they make some pretty cheap alarms? That would just bolt onto the windows and doors of the shop? I'd been wanting to get something like that for the jedi's windows anyways...might at least scare them off...