Fake '68 Formula-S on Ebay!!!
Good that you are making this known to people.
That appears to be the purpose of your post.
I know if I was buying something (anything) I would not want the seller to misrepresent it.
However with old cars it is what it is.
If someone is into this for an investment, caveat emptor.
I wont question this sellers motives or the accuracy of his statements.
Im not well qualified for either.
Clones and fakes.
Seems to me its all in ones perspective.
Perhaps a person more concerned that his Hemi whatever will be worth less because there are more of them? Or is it preferable to have more Max Wedge cars at the drive in instead of SS Chevelles?
(Remember the kid in the parking lot?)
It almost like people are trying to keep the bloodlines pure.
For who? For generations yet un-born?
GG says it is only original once.
And by my logic no matter how much one spends to restore a basket case, Chrysler didnt build it.
Someone else did.
Follow this:
(Years ago I actually saw something very close to the following statement about metal in one of the Mopar publications. It was about a rare E Body Cuda that was saved.
Right then I knew
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Someone cuts up a perfectly good Satellite and grafts that metal onto a Road Runner carcass. The only thing that is saved from the Road Runner is the cowl, radiator support, trunk and roof.
I think that gets about all the body VIN numbers?
All the other metal came from the poor donor car.
This is call restoration and it is acceptable.
Yet we now have a whole body that Chrysler DID NOT put together.
But if someone takes the documentation from a hopeless Road Runner and puts that documentation on a nice Satellite body, we now have car with a body that Chrysler actually DID put together.
This is viewed as wrong by many authorities. It is a re-numbered body.
Which car would you want?
For better or worse, that is the way it is.