| People these days will go to horrible lengths to build | | | | will make 100% sure that the person buying the car |
| an exact replica of a muscle car, I still haven't decided | | | | knows that it's a clone, I won't sell it as a restored |
| if this is a good thing, or a bad thing, on one hand | | | | original, or a factory un-restored true survivor, I love |
| people are giving it their best not to let these cars | | | | those cars way to much for that, I love L88 |
| just disappear from the planet, and on the other | | | | corvette's, and I love ZL1 corvette's, and nothing will |
| hand they are using their knowledge and muscle car | | | | ever change that, but nothing will ever change the |
| prowess to rip unsuspecting people off, and that is | | | | fact that I can't afford one of them either. |
| by no means a good thing. | | | | People with the knowledge of how these cars were |
| I live for these old cars, and I love them to the core, | | | | built can make an almost exact copy of one, in all but |
| a person, or shop should never use their knowledge | | | | two respects, original engines are very hard to find, |
| to rip another person off, it makes them, and the | | | | and to build a numbers matching clone is almost |
| entire industry look bad, you know how it goes, you | | | | impossible for the ordinary shop, it may take years |
| may never hear one thing about a shop, until god | | | | to find some of the parts to do the job, although |
| forbid they do something wrong, and it's wrong to rip | | | | anything is possible if you have the time. |
| people off, it doesn't help anybody, not the cars, not | | | | People also go to great time and expense to build |
| the people, and most of all, not the shops. | | | | clones of the mopar hemi cars also, and there getting |
| Over the time I've been in the industry I've seen a | | | | truly hard to find, some fetching over $2,000,000 on |
| lot of things, and the most disturbing of all is the | | | | the market, obviously not in most people's price |
| cloning of muscle cars for fraudulent purposes, with | | | | range, I see clones going for very high prices also, so |
| intent to do an other person harm, it's just fine to | | | | look hard, get as much information on the car that |
| clone them for posterity, and to keep the memory | | | | you want as you can, if the person selling the car is |
| alive, or just because a person wants a car that is | | | | unable to give you the information that you need, be |
| impossible for them to find, or afford if they did. | | | | very leery about the purchasing of the car. |
| As you know, if you read my articles on the web | | | | Classic car can be a risky venture, unless you study |
| with regularity, I will try to help people all I can when | | | | and learn all you can about the particular car that you |
| it comes to muscle cars, or classic American cars, | | | | want to buy, it's hard for the person selling the car |
| because without people there are no cars, and | | | | to argue with true knowledge, it's hard for them to |
| without muscle cars, I might as well be dead, I would | | | | fool a person who really knows the about the car |
| love to have a 1969 ZL1 camaro, but with out a | | | | that they want to buy, know what engines were |
| doubt I can't afford to buy a real one, even if I could | | | | available in that car, know what transmissions were |
| find it, the last I seen sold for $880.000 at auction. | | | | available, know how to identify all the things that are |
| I will probably clone one some day, but if I sell it, I | | | | important when buying a classic car. |