There is no subterfuge going on here! I just came from Tom Rocke's shop and
was told there is a plate that will be put on the car for auction
specifically stating the car is a replica. Tom has never misrepresented any
car he has ever sent to auction. He stands behind his work and makes sure
the auction winner is satisfied with his car and has traveled as far as
Florida to help a new owner with a mechanical problem with an auction
purchase. A lot more than most of the other sellers a BJ, RM or Russo and
Steele are willing to do. There are a lot of expensive "one off" period
parts on this car. For the average back yard restorer, this would be a very
costly reproduction of a very famous car. Since I am sure many of you would
not part with $212K for the real thing, this car would absolutely give you
the feel of the real deal for substantially less. Aparently, if you saw
subterfuge the way the auction description is written, you probably think
the rest of us are blithering idiots and not quite as intelligent as you to
spot such obvious fraud.
Mike MacLean
56 BN2
60 AN5
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:31 PM, E.A. Driver <edriver@sasktel.net> wrote:
Hi Scott
The operative wording is "to model" which appears in at least two places,
thus truly a knock off: the quote reads:
"An extensive body-off restoration was completed on this car to model the
1960
works car #20 UJB-142"
It is just another way of jacking up the price to the unsuspecting bidder of
which
there are lots. It is a shame to use such subterfuge BUT as a friend here
trained
by Jaguar states " there are many more questionable people in the British
car
scene than in the rest of the car scene".
Kind regards
Ed
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