[DeTomaso] Authentic versus non-authentic

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I too have run into some strange situations with guys presenting replicas in potentially misleading ways.That's why I will never place any kind of Ford badge or graphic on my GT40. I have a Superformance decal on the windscreen that hopefully helps avoid confusion. When I get the "what is it?" question, I never call it a Ford GT40, and follow with the "duplicate" explanation. On those occasions when it is obvious that the person is still not quite understanding,?I tell them it's a 2008 car built in a factory in South Africa using blueprints from 1965. That seems to work.


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From: Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com>

To: detomaso at realbig.com; asajay at asajay.com

Sent: Fri, Oct 9, 2009 12:07 pm

Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Authentic versus non-authentic





What I saw that bothers me are people advertising "65 Cobras" and making it   appear that it is a 65, and thus not a replica, and it really is just a quirk in   the law that let them register it as a 65.? I think they are trying to con the   unsuspecting.  ?  Ken    --- On Fri, 10/9/09, asajay at asajay.com <asajay at asajay.com> wrote:      From: asajay at asajay.com <asajay at asajay.com>  Subject: [DeTomaso] Authentic versus non-authentic  To: detomaso at realbig.com  Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 8:24 AM      I think Mike Drew owns a great example.? He owns an original Pantera?   that has been someone restored -and- modified but is an authentic?   Pantera.? He also owns a Mustang that is a clone of (I think) a GT350.?   ? He makes no bones about it being a clone and not an authentic, even?   though it probably far exceeds the performance of an original.    In contrast, there used to be a guy here in Spokane that owned an AC?   Cobra replicar.? It was very nicely done but he continually passed it?   off as an authentic original.? When challenged on that by folks who?   knew better, and after looking at the VIN tags, this guy would usually?   just -leave- the car show in a huff.? It was too bad really, he had a?   nice car and probably could have won some awards even though it was?   not an original Cobra.    In the kit car world there are those that are fantastic, and those?   that are not.? The kit Pantera (or Fake Pantera as some have called?   it) is an example of a poorly engineered project.? It would take a lot?   of work to make it look right even if it wasn't an authentic Pantera.???  At least it's not being passed off as an authentic Pantera.? Though we?   have a hard enough time sometimes reminding people the Pantera in it's?   original was not and is not a -kit-.    On the other end of the spectrum we have things like the Kirham Cobra?   or the Factory Five GT40s.? These ares such finely engineered replicas?   that someone like me can't even afford one.? I'd be stuck with the old?   fashioned volkswag


on chassis with a fiberglass shell kit.? I would?   dearly love to get into a replica GT40 and maybe someday I'll be able?   to afford one, but I'm certainly not going to pass it off as an?   original, unless it really is.    And in fact I think Bob makes my overall point, because I don't think?   I could own that much of an original car that I couldn't touch it.???  The Pantera is different, thankfully, but an original GT40 or an?   original AC Cobra?? I don't know I could enjoy it.    Anyway.... just thought I'd pop in here for a minute.  Asa Jay  _______________________________________________    Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA    Archive Search Engine Now Available at http://www.realbig.com/detomaso/    DeTomaso mailing list  DeTomaso at list.realbig.com  http://list.realbig.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso  _______________________________________________    Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA    Archive Search Engine Now Available at http://www.realbig.com/detomaso/    DeTomaso mailing list  DeTomaso at list.realbig.com  http://list.realbig.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso