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I'm still thinking that scratch built stripped out racer look doors with sliding windows in alloy frames could be the way to go -
According to people on the Ferrari chat forum this car (a GTO) is a replica and was bought by the same ginger haired chap who owns lots of other Ferraris. They say he bought it with full knowledge it's a replica.
According to people on the Ferrari chat forum this car (a GTO) is a replica and was bought by the same ginger haired chap who owns lots of other Ferraris. They say he bought it with full knowledge it's a replica.
There are replicas and there are replicas
This isn't a datsun underNeath..probably another ferraroi rebodied
Lookalikes are cars that look very similar but are not exact copies.
Replicas are nearly identical to the original. In some cases can be better
than the original.
Forgeries are perfect replicas that are passed off as original. For example
the Favre Ferrri GTO, built on an original GTE but had its chassis
number manipulated.
Although there are many forgeries around, most of them are well known
and are still sold for millions. In many cases they are better finished than
the original.
If you look on the GTOengineering.com web page you will be able to see a newly built 250 sub, I wouldn't like to ask how much it was, but they might sell grilles etc to make the tribute model look more authentic
Sorry for the delay in posting, progress has been in fits and starts due to large volume of kit orders. With the Donnington Show looming it's full steam ahead.
Front end now filled and sanded
Flanged for splash moulds
Horrible gel colours for splash moulds
Panels out, trimmed and placed on our engineless workshop Z3. Just a touch too long!
Not a bad fit with a little trimming around the windscreen
The stripped out base car that the panels are sat on is riding about 2.5" too high, even with an old Rover V8 chucked in the engine bay:
Now we know how the front end is going to fit, in relation to the doors and windscreen, we were happy to properly position the rear end and widen the rear arches to cover the tyres
The roof was also split and widened to match the Z3 windscreen
Picked up some nice old Jag bolt on wires from ebay, should look the part
The lowered picture is only Photoshopped. The red Z3 the panels are currently on is not the car they will be finally fitted to. As these panels are the intermediate buck from which the final mould will be taken, for the Z3 kit, they will not be fitted to Geoff's base car. Geoff will be getting the first production kit. The buck panels will be fitted to this 2.8 which will be my daily driver:
Geoff . 