How about the boot prints from the ground crew that are still on the wing? How often has anyone laid their eyes on something like that?
I was just looking at the Dottie Mae this afternoon and it never fails to make the hair on my neck stand up. It's a time capsule and with it's history and remarkable condition, it is in my opinion, the single most significant fighter restoration in the world today.
It's all very important, the stencils, the markings, the foot prints, the nose art (awesome) and believe me.... the owner, the recovery team and the restoration team all understand this. There were some people out there who would have been perfectly happy getting their hands on it and restoring this airplane back to a stocker with some ordinary markings, but fortunately, these are not those kind of people.
They know what they have and it means way more to them than it does to us observers that are on the sidelines. It's in very good hands!