[Barney59]

How about a coat of paint and a few patches on the 3 S5's in Huntsville, Cape C and Houston?

A little LOx anyone?

I hear they were Moon ready when they pulled the plug on Apollo 18...

[chimera]

The one lawn ornament at JSC is (was) a flight-ready vehicle. The one at KSC is a test article. I don't know about the other.

If we're serious about getting really heavy-lift capability back, then we need to start where the Saturn V left off. The Delta 4, and even the shuttle, are just wannabes compared to the Saturn.

[MediaMole]

Of course, after 30 years of open storage they aren't much more than interesting piles of metal fatigue and corrosion.

[r9etb]

How about a coat of paint and a few patches on the 3 S5's in Huntsville, Cape C and Houston?

It'd be far cheaper to build from scratch. NONE of the Saturn V support infrastructure exists anymore, and NONE of the electronics on the boosters themselves has been manufactured for decades.