Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Fake Ferrari's

[Charles Perry (charles]

There was a 250GTO reproduction around here for a while built on a modified Ford Mustang platform with Mustang 5.0 power.

 

Proportionally and visually it was an outstanding copy. Until it started up you wouldn't have guessed...

 

One of the better repros I've seen.

 

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From: E M [mailto:pokiebaron [at] gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:54 PM
To: Charles Perry
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Fake Ferrari's

There was a company some years back, can't remember if they were 
Swiss based, or Italian.  They were making "reproduction" cars of the first 
GTOs and such.  Some had 400i V12, and other sourced bits if I 
remember.  They were a little bit too good, and Ferrari had them shut 
down.  As I remember, they were pretty much clone cars, down to the hand 
beaten panels.  They even fooled some well seasoned Ferrari fans.  I'm 
sure the ones made are still kicking around 
somewhere.

Ed
911SC

On 13 July 2010 12:50, LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net> wrote:

The new Autoweek arrived today and there was a odd article.  Seems a wealthy
family in Italy has been modifying wrecked Ferrari's & engines to make them
look like more valuable ones.  I figured someone was turning a 308 into a
288GTO or something similar.  People can do amazing stuff with FRP.

Then they lost me - they said the American connection was Pontiac Fiero's
were the base /donor car for some of their creations.  Creations?  More like
abortions.

Seems some Fiero's were rebodied to look like a 308GTB.  I guess until
Ferrari issued a court order stopping that here (I think) - but even so,
doesn't seem like there'd be much profit in that kind of reproduction?

I can scan the article if others want to read it.

LarryT

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