State of Hobby

[JBB]

Gentlemen and ladies. I don't own a C.O.P.O. or a Yenko or Baldwin Motion car, just a L-78/Th400 factory car, and I saw something that disturbed me, and I hope owners of the cars that have this website's namesake are very disturbed. On page 1679 of the 2002 Mar.Hemming's motor news is a dealer or like selling "technically correct" C.O.P.O. clones!!!???!! I think reproducing a limited number of past model's cheapens the real one's, as with fraudulent reproduction of documents, tags, motor #'s, ect., who is to say what is real and what is not??? What is the point of owning a 69 C.O.P.O of which less than 1200 were made, and there are 5000
cruising around!!! This is a problem for the Auburn Boattail Speedster owner, The 69 KR500 owner, the 33 Deuce Coupe owner, the Charger Datona owner, and on and on. This is a problem for ALL Antique vehicle owners.Joel ILL. Camaro Club

[69L89396]

I don't see a problem in someone building a clone and selling it as a clone but when they advertise a clone as an orginal car, then that is when I have a problem with it.
I think the biggest problem is that some people are able to get paper work for a clone and that is what messes things up.

[Belair62]

I just saw this ad in Hemmings too ! He is taking orders !?

[Edited by Belair62 (03-04-2002 at 10:16 AM).]

[DjD]

Just using the AC Cobra as an example. There must be 30 companys that offer kits to reproduce a Cobra. I wouldn't know a replica from a real one but from talking with an owner once at a show, he wasn't bothered and actually has a replica to drive and shows the real one. If there is a way to identify the real from the replica it's no big deal.

Dennis

[69L89396]

I'm going to change my option on this subject. What I did not think about is what happens to the "cloned" cars years from now when someone sells one to an unspecting, uneducated buyer for alot of money thinking they are getting the real thing, then finding out later it is a fake or clone. This kind of thing could have a drastic effect on this hobby generations from now.
The big question is how do we protect the hobby from this kind of thing. I really don't see a solution to policing the sell of cars and even the parts that are sold.
If you think about 50 or 100 years from now what will this hobby look like?

[Tom Hendricks]

I think you protect yourself in the car hobby, just like you protect yourself in life. Education and experience. The smarter you are, the less chance of getting burned. It doesn't hurt to have smart friends too !