How do you guys feel about clones?

[mopardave]

sweet rendering, AWESOME color, I have a 73 triple F8 chally. Clones are a simple mans buildable budget car. He/she builds it the way he /she thinks it should look, sounds and drive. People that are against clones are the ones that pay someone to build their cars or just buy the car that they want. still nothing wrong with that. IT basically comes down to the all mighty dollar. We all have a dream car.

[wagesofsin]

you build what you want...period!! its your car afterall!

theres a shoe for every foot!

the only thing i dislike about clones is they reaped benefit in a market that technically wasnt. i read all the current car trader rags, and am frankly tired of seeing ads that claim clone/reproduction/tribute. what makes them worth money? i cant figure it. ok, the guy spent 80 bazillion dollars to make a car he never had?  sux to be him. dont mean we need to pay for it. not saying they arent cool, but for crimeny petes sake, get real.

now, they are being rethought pricewise, and adjusted to where they need to be. sure its cool to take a 318 or 6 car and hemi it, but its not helping the market in the whole sense.

but anyhoooo... i digress, i like what ya wanna do .

[challengermaniac]

Here is yet another vote for clones.  I'm building a 70 Challenger TA that will have the 340, 727 & Suregrip, but at a fraction of the cost of a real TA which means I won't be crazy scared to drive it----- which is exactly what I intend to do.  If I were blessed with the real thing, I would be lucky to drive it 100 miles a year.  Clones are great as long as they are not mis-represented.

Charlie
70 Challenger TA (CLONE)
69 Camaro RS (Real Deal)

[426HEMI]

I would again say if that is what they are wanting for there car then build it.  I can not see building them just to build them to sell.  But you never know someone would rather have it already built for them and that could be there dream car.  My car will never be sold and will be passed on to my kids.  They both really like how I have put it forward to build it.  Only difference they would want is the wheels.  They want the wheels I had on my challenger. 

[Scat Pack Fever]

I am actually making my challenger a double clone. It started out as a 1974 318 car, but now it looks like a 1970 and will have the t/a components. The original vin will still be on the dash showing it is a 1974. The car was completely rusted out in the rear. At least the car was saved and not junked out.

By the way...I have always liked the 69 and 70 mustang fastbacks!

[Moparal]

I am actually making my challenger a double clone. It started out as a 1974 318 car, but now it looks like a 1970 and will have the t/a components. The original vin will still be on the dash showing it is a 1974. The car was completely rusted out in the rear. At least the car was saved and not junked out.

By the way...I have always liked the 69 and 70 mustang fastbacks!

Bet that's a cool car.

By the way. Nothing wrong with clones or making a tribute. Numbers swapping is wrong.
I'd have no problems cloning a 69 fastback mustang into a 69 fastback hemi cuda

[Belgium Cuda]

I'm gonna build a 426 Hemi Challenger convertible from my -70 318 because it was my dreamcar 30 years
ago and I am rather certain I will never be able to buy a "real" one.

I've had several matching numbers cars but it's what you feel about the car that counts, not how it's
built from the factory. 

[moparcardave]

Having had the orginal cars back when they were new the only difference were the way the were ordered. The best part was you could order a car any way you wanted it.

Done original matching number cars done clones they all drive the same.  The best part is no matter what it is a Mopar and no matter what Mopar it is, any are rarer the Chevys and Fords.

To put it in perspective how many SS Chevys were built?   How come every Chevy is a SS?  moparcardave.

[EB3-GranCoupe]

boyds,

Love those wheels!   

[QuartermileCuda]

Im against clones when they are trying to be passed of as the real thing. When restoring my car I bounced many ideas around of if should be taken back to original or not.  But not having a build sheet or the original engine with very few options lead me to cloning... even thought there was no such thing as a 71 AAR cuda.

[boydsdodge]

boyds,

Love those wheels!   

Thanks, Who's wheel is that in your avitar?

[boydsdodge]

Here is the new and final look for my Challenger.

[brads70]

Jackson,they Look good in black! Boydsdodge set me up with my rims ! I love them!!! I have the T/A stripe to put on mine too (with  T/A deleted)
My car was a 6 cyl originally, now a 440.

[boydsdodge]

Brad your car is looking great, I am in the shop now redoing my front end with the new Magnum force drop spindles and Hotchkis tie rod ends.
I am still not sold on these heim joints for a street track car.
Speaking of suspensions, when are you going to lower yours Brad?

[brads70]

Brad your car is looking great, I am in the shop now redoing my front end with the new Magnum force drop spindles and Hotchkis tie rod ends.
I am still not sold on these heim joints for a street track car.
Speaking of suspensions, when are you going to lower yours Brad?

HA!!! I'd be happy just to get the thing running before I fine tune it. I've had a few members tell me to run it like this for a couple of months so things settle.
I have used heim joints in street suspensions before but I use aircraft quality teflon lined . If you don't use the teflon lined quality ones they click/rattle on the street with the bumps and drive ya nuts.
I might step up to the magnum force spindles some day too, as my adjusters are hanging out pretty far as it is, never mind going lower.
It seems I'm going to have to force myself to stop improving things or I'm never going to get this thing on the road!! I just get one thing installed and then the part next to it looks like crap....it never stops! Installing homemade subframe connectors at the moment