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Re: K3 Fakes Price of everything - Value of nothing

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Subject: Re: K3 Fakes Price of everything - Value of nothing
From: "Ray" <spook01@home.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:00:13 -0600
Cc: <mg-mmm@autox.team.net>
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Reply-to: "Ray" <spook01@home.com>
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YES!!

Best,
Ray



> So what is the opinion of you all when some takes a say NA four seater and
> puts a two seater body on it?  Is it then a fake....or removes the factory
> supplied body and puts on a pointed tail single seat body as many did in the
> 30's.......??  Does that mean that these cars are now fakes?
>
> In my on case, I bought a TA in 1986 sight unseen in New Orleans and after
> getting it out here to the coast found that it had a spriget engine in
> it......the original having been scrapped many years before I bought it.  I
> rationalize that what I have is part of my cars history, I wanted a driver
so
> I kept the 1275........its a "special" I suppose.
> Pip runs an extremely modified engine in his P type........does that make it
> a fake?
>
> I guess its to each their own.......I think the Register resolved this by
> saying if you have the original chassis, you have the car.  If you don't try
> to pass off a K1 as a K3, you are not in violation.....now I understand that
> someone is producing chassis frames.  In my mind that is where real fakes
> come to life.
>
> Cheers
> Terry

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