Tickford Parts - $$$

Ok, So if you don't know much about the Ford Falcon, there was a performance arm from 1992 - 2003 called "Tickford". Tickford was like AMG to Mercedes or HSV to Holden. As i am looking at restoring/repairing the car i am faced with the issue, Original, or Modified. The costs of Tickford specific parts are becoming harder to find and more expensive by the day.

The first example is a little sticker that sits on the auto shifter consol. This sticker says "Adaptive shift" I was in a bidding war on ebay for one of these, i stopped bidding at $170 dollars, and it went up to over 250 bucks !! for a damn sticker !!. I ended up getting lucky, a guy sold the whole surround for 50 bucks, and it had the sticker still with the unit. the poor bloke didn't really know what he had.

Sticker in question

Further to this, the standard CD player in the car i removed years ago for an aftermarket stereo. I have since thought about putting one back in, and getting an aftermarket head unit in the glove box (going for the stealth look) So the original CD player was destroyed in a flood at my mothers house. Back to ebay, 350 bucks starting price for the XR6 CD player !!!

Another example 250 bucks for an EL XR6 Tickford left handed indicator !!

The moral of this story is if you have tickford parts, or you know someone who has some old parts in the shed, Hold on to them, or sell them on ebay, they have some value.

Its crazy to think that i would get less than 1500 bucks for my car to trade in. but i can probably get around 3 grand stripping the tickford parts and selling/giving the rest to a wrecker.

So the question i have, do i look for all original tickford parts to sink into this car to keep it original? or do i do aftermarket parts / lowered  etc

Cheers

Mike