i can tell you are having the time of your life with that Early A. It's genuine! Before there was ever a Roadkill show, I was roadkill. It's how I enjoyed the hobby. Never has a drag strip been shut down for clean up due to my junk (oops... jinxed myself !). However, I've waited countless times in staging lanes for over an hour due to some expensive machine shop build exploding. Cheap doesn't mean unreliable.