[Mike51Merc]

Clones are never valued as highly as "authentic" models.
If you represent it as a true Deluxe, you're committing a fraud on the buyer.

I say do what you want to do to please yourself, but be honest with a buyer when selling.

Regardless of whether you "style it" as a standard or deluxe, resale prices almost never exceed restoration costs, so most of us have no right calling these cars "investments" in the first place. They're more like indulgences than investments.