The Creativity of the Resto Mod Idea

I'm torn on this Singer 9345, but is that the right direction or is it lacking creativity? I've got dozens more if we're bored of it, cue car-ish. And they don't all come to fruition. But how often do you look back and think that one would have sold really well? Why didn't we make it? It might come a few years' time when we say, go through those bins over there. You only ever learn from what doesn't work. What kind of almost works? I'm going to choose in handbags that I look at on a daily basis. What?