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I thought the same - In fact my first thought was "tell the boys at Tribute that someone's taken moulds off their car!", then reading further down they say 'photos with permission' etc. If it's true (no reason to believe it's not?) then it looks like Tribute have an Essex Distributor.
Can't help being a little amused though. We are all spending lots of time
and money copying Jaguars, Ferraris, alphas, lancias etc. But the minute a stranger we don't know copies a copy of a copy of a copy, it causes outrage! You have to see the funny side of it :-)
Can't help being a little amused though. We are all spending lots of time
and money copying Jaguars, Ferraris, alphas, lancias etc. But the minute a stranger we don't know copies a copy of a copy of a copy, it causes outrage! You have to see the funny side of it :-)
Just pop over to the Ribble/Miglia thread and see.........
Can't help being a little amused though. We are all spending lots of time
and money copying Jaguars, Ferraris, alphas, lancias etc. But the minute a stranger we don't know copies a copy of a copy of a copy, it causes outrage! You have to see the funny side of it :-)
Ah - but there's a copy and there's taking moulds off, and there's passing off as.
3 different scenarios, and (unless someone knows more) different legalities.
The tribute isn't a direct copy of, and (unless you put on certain badges) isn't pretending (directly) to be, and no moulds were taken off an original. If you took moulds off a Tribute and started selling it as your own product that would surely be illegal?
Right, back home, uploaded Geoff's progress pictures for him.......
Dan from Tempesta came to visit us at the end of last year to order an MX250 hardtop kit. He explained his car building history and his business plans. He asked if it would be OK with us if he purchased kits and offered them for sale, at a profit, and/or build part finished/finished cars.
I have no problem with anyone trying to turn a profit from a kit purchased from us, that's business, as long as we are selling kits. Still a few details to sort out with Dan at Tempasta, but that's it.......
Now that all is in the open, perhaps Dan's chances of making any profit are slipping away as anyone reading this forum would just buy from Trib and save cash.
Im hooked on Fast n loud, whenever they announce their plan for a build I always think that it will look awful then some how when its done I wish that I was stood there with a pocket full of cash to give them. Aaron is a genius!
Couldn't agree more Gaz, really love what they do and just as importantly how they do it, no theme cars thank god, loved American Chopper when it started but the Theme Bike thing soon wore very thin for me.
that explains why someone on our industrial estate asked me if i'd bought my MX250 kit from a guy in rainham????
i could have driven 15 miles to elm park, instead of the four hour drive to Dorset! to collect my kit...... but then i wouldn't have had the complimentary cuppa and chin wag with chris,