Keep an Evo service when it should be and with the right stuff (oils etc etc) and you will have happy motoring
I did get mine recovered one time (snapped cambelt, different story lol) and the guy said that it wasn't common at all to see the likes of an evo on the back of a truck and mine was the first one he had been called to (still didn't feel privileged though haha)
To be fair, if you prefer the old shape over the new one, I would look at the VI's many will already have stage 1 mods, but with the VI onwards engine, you can do a rod change (rod job) without taking all the engine out and apart, making it capable of roundabout 550bhp with supporting mods (safely)