[DeTomaso] Authentic versus non-authentic

[Torbjørn Harlem]

if you pick up Elvis`s hair at the barber shop and make you a wig.
are you then suppose to be a Elvis clone.


TH
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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>
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> 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 h!
> e 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 c!
> an't even afford one.? I'd be stuck with the old?   fashioned volkswag
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> 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 
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