[DeTomaso] Authentic versus non-authentic
Jan Krakevik
jcf at ragai.com
Fri Oct 9 14:47:43 EDT 2009
..well ...it would be a good start..:))
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Jan Einar Krakevik
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From: "Torbjørn Harlem" <torbharl at online.no>
To: <kenn_green at yahoo.com>; <detomaso at realbig.com>; <asajay at asajay.com>;
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Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Authentic versus non-authentic
> 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.
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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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>> To: detomaso at realbig.com; asajay at asajay.com
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>> Sent: Fri, Oct 9, 2009 12:07 pm
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>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Authentic versus non-authentic
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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
>>
>>
>> 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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