Anybody remember a story that was in Road and Track (I believe that's where
I read it) about the owners of an MGA that they put a piece of high density
foam on the front of his car and shaped it to appear somewhat like an early
Ferrari Barchetta.. Then drove it up to Pebble Beach and somehow convinced the
Credentials Dept to allow him to take part in the Concours Italiano!
Where the car was allowed to go along with all of the real Ferraris up 17
mile drive to the site of that years Concours Italiano gathering where people
remarked how wonderful it was that the owner had left the early "Ferrari
racer" (or the MGA with it's sculptured foam front end) "intact" with all it's
dents, dings and damage suffered by the front end over its "long and
illustrious
racing career" The owner of the MGA and his coworkers had managed to spray
the entire car with spay cans of bright Red enamel to further the Ferrari
ruse. Although they claimed that their initial intention wasn't to make
fraudulent claims that the car was a Ferrari but to see how far into the
Ferrari
gathering they could get before being discovered as a being nothing more than
a
very crude knock off and the patina and provenance was as a result of a lack
of
having the proper tools to shape to high density foam properly. Still they
managed to pull off the ruse.
Albert Escalante CCBCC - Left Coast
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