Safir and Holman-Moody http://www.holmanmoody.com/
I have spoken to the guys and HM. If I remember correctly, they were
only building track cars and were following the original serial
numbers. Cars were pricy, but still way less than the originals.
Rick
On 7/13/2010 11:08 PM, LS wrote:
You
prob mean Safir...
From:
LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
To: LS
<lashdeep [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: The FerrariList
<ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Tue, July 13,
2010 11:57:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari]
Fake Ferrari's
This may be the company you're
remembering. They also did a Cobra Daytona Coupe using Pete Brock to
do some design work.
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LarryT
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Fake Ferrari's
The Ford GT 40, not the new one -
the real ones - have a company who made the real first ones replicating
them and selling them as replications. In fact, the parts are SOOOO
good, the real 1960's GT 40's use the redo parts. There is a whole
verification of parts to see if said GT 40 was ever in an accident and
the crunched parts were replaced with wonderful new (as in brand new)
parts. I witnessed a GT40 crash at practice on turn 1 at Riverside -
subsequently the car comes up for sale againÂand the then new new new
(what ever) owner said - oh, no no no - never munched. Ah well.
DOUGÂ
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Sent:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 11:53 AM
Subject:
Re: [Ferrari] Fake Ferrari's
The ones I mentioned were built from the ground up, with a tubular
chassis, hand beaten panels, all the bits and pieces being authentic
Ferrari. You can see how Ferrari was a bit upset with a factory
knocking such cars out.
Having said that, where do you draw the line. Since the prices of many
of these old cars have gone through the roof, at times, simply having
an engine, or gearbox, is enough to claim you have a car, even if you
have to manufacture a whole new car around the one bit with a serial
number on it. I keep thinking of the old saying, "there are now 3
times the number of Bugattis on the road, that ever left the factory".
lol. Break up one Bugatti into engine, gearbox, rear axle, etc, and
you have yourself enough to make 5 whole cars, and claim each is real.Â
That's how it was in the crazy 80s anyway. I think things have changed
a bit. Bentley's were often the same, and I think still are to a
degree today.
Ed
911SC
On 13 July 2010 14:46, Charles Perry <charles [at] carolina-sound.com>
wrote:
There was a 250GTO reproduction around here for a while
built on a modified Ford Mustang platform with Mustang 5.0 power.
Â
Proportionally and visually it was an outstanding copy.
Until it started up you wouldn't have guessed...
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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. ÂSeems a wealthy
family in Italy has been modifying wrecked Ferrari's & engines to
make them
look like more valuable ones. ÂI figured someone was turning a 308 into
a
288GTO or something similar. ÂPeople 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. ÂCreations? ÂMore
like
abortions.
Seems some Fiero's were rebodied to look like a 308GTB. ÂI 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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