Preparing Historic Motorized Vehicles for Storage or Exhibit: Conserv-O-Gram 10-03
Source: National Park Service (NPS)
Although vehicles are supposed to be treated with the same care as any other artifact in a historic collection. care of these vehicles traditionally has been regarded as an exception to conservation principles. As a consequence, the pressure to restore rather than conserve vehicles has meant that many original surfaces and materials have been replaced or altered. If you restore a historic vehicle, you are left with a generic example of a vehicle type rather than a vehicle which can be regarded as an unaltered historic document
