ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the readers to some of the built heritage conservation charters and relates them to the practice of automobile restoration, especially by comparing these charters to the only example of an automobile conservation charter: Turin Charter. It explores Turin Charter in context with built heritage conservation charters and compares their differences, especially in relation to innate characteristics of immovable and moving heritage. The major contribution of the Venice Charter to conservation practice was its emphasis on an objective, scientific approach to conserving the authentic state of a monument by focusing on the documentary quality of “original material”. The participants were primarily conservation architects whose major interest was historical monuments, or buildings and structures of significant aesthetic value. The Nara Document allows for authenticity to be defined independently of fabric. In this sense, meanings are, in and of themselves, “authentic.”
