[morzh]

Chris, as you might've noticed, we here do not turn up our noses to whatever way of reviving old chassis' as long as it is done in a safe and reliable manner; the degree of the authenticity is totally up to you. If it works, it works, and very few of us many years from the day of the final assembly will take it apart again to show our grandkids and say: see, these are the resistors and caps they used those days. But....just in case some are indeed this way, they do it.
The very fact that another radio gets to live and perform for another century or so is a beautiful thing, the caps being yellow or restuffed, and the resistor being dogbones or today's type.