I've owned my 1950 Morris Minor since 1972 and it's always been modified in my ownership, going through a number of updates over the years to what it is now. The most frequent comment I've heard attending dozens of shows over the early years is "It should have been left in stock form", and the usual - "is it a VW Beetle".
Last year at a rally, I happened to be filming on my phone and caught a guy decrying what I'd done to the car - "should have left it stock etc etc". Over the years, folk seem to have been more accepting of modified vehicles and i thought I'd heard the last of these negatives, but no. I explained to him that as I'd owned it for over 50 years, it would have been unlikely to have still existed had I not owned it, and I asked to see his vehicle. This comment usually shuts them up and he went away. Morris Minors are not a rare species, ok, the early ones are relatively scarce, but there are still a good few left in standard form. In years to come I'll expect to hear - what a waste of an LS engine.
Pete