Barn find! 1971 Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III to fetch in excess of $300,000

[Crazy Dazz]

So what exactly is so special about this shell?
Whatever it was, its been bastardised, then raped and pillaged.

It might be a solid body, a good basis for an XY project, but that doesn't make it worth $300k.
If the post above is to be believed then it's had the tags removed, which makes the car unregisterable.

If, based on the shock tower, you can confirm that it was originally a HO, so what. It's not one now.
If you buy that car, and then acquire all the parts to rebuild it as a HO.
And I take a nondescript XY and add exactly the same parts and work, then what's the difference.

Don't get we wrong, I understand the rarity and iconic nature of a genuine HO. My point is that it isn't any more. Some idiot destroyed it.