How do you guys feel about clones?

[528 Hemi Cuda]

Super Blue,
I know you were joking. I appreciate the humor. I hope you enjoy your weekend.
1BadFish,
The picture of the Challenger at the bottom of your post is that the Challenger you are talking about?  Is it a real T/A?  The T/A's are one of our favorites. We had a Yellow T/A years ago and loved it.  I wish we were looking for a trade but we have too many cars now. Thanks for the offer. 
Pink Ice

[Super Blue 72]

May you and everyone else have a great weekend as well! 

[challengermaniac]

AARuFAST
////////////  CUDA AAR
In most states it is against the law to change vin numbers from one car to another.  Those who build clones mostly change the engine that is not what I consider a clone. Like changing a 6 cyl or 318 to a larger fuel efficient or performance engine. But taking a car example Barracuda cloning it into an AAR and selling for an atrocious price. First the seller has raped the buyer and the buyer is a FOOL.  These people that are sticking Hemi's in every MOPAR model believe they should get 10 times what its worth and the FOOLS want them. Adding mirrors, rubber bumpers, changing hood style I don't conside part of cloning. These were options. Putting a 6.1 crate engine in a Barracuda and not
beefing up the suspension calling it a HEMI CUDA is a piece of crap....The Camaro of the 60's are dime a dozen and there are FOOLS out there that will pay up the butt just for a car that everyone and thier mother own.  Yenko, COPO, cloned from a cheap model Camaro and the FOOLS pay up the yingyang. FOOLS.....The only car that I don't see getting clones much is the 50 to 60's Mustang.  They don't need cloned they are a class of their own....... Thanks to Barrett JACKu and Hagerty your 10 to 20 thousand car is now
a 60th  to 1 million $ car. The auction FOOLS jacked the price up and Hagerty is laughing all the way to the bank because your insurance is higher. If you like your ride u better have it covered or u wreck it and the insurance totals it.  They take the car and rebuild it and sell it for a profit and u get what u insured it for.....So if you have your ride insured for 10 grand and its listed at 60 +grand u get 10 grand, insurance co.
gets your car and they  rebuild it and sell it for 60 grand.
 I purchased my GC it came with a spoiler and hockey stick stripe, it should have a Luggage Rack which I am in the process of restoring. Trunk is in paint shop. Don't know if I will like it  Spoiler looks beefier. To the know it alls. I know
GC's never had spoilers or hockey sticks.  So is this a clone GC trying to be a CUDA.  It has a lot of MUSCLE 383 4 bl Edelbrock carb. maniford.
So, buy a cheap car and make it into a cloned whatever and sell it for big bucks to some FOOL 

I hope you are feeling better now that you got all of that out!

[Matt70]

 

I hope you are feeling better now that you got all of that out!

    

[the_engineers]

There was a 50's Mustang???

[AARuFAST]

There was a 50's Mustang???

Wow u guys are rough...   

[Cooter]

So everybody that buys a "Clone/Tribute" car for the huge bucks, when it clearly took huge bucks to "Reproduce" that AAR Cuda, or Hemi Challenger R/T SE, are fools?

Hmmmm.....So if it doesn't come with a pedigree and loaded on a trailer everywhere it goes,  it clearly isn't worth the big bucks it took to build such a car....I got it now....

[Super Blue 72]

So everybody that buys a "Clone/Tribute" car for the huge bucks, when it clearly took huge bucks to "Reproduce" that AAR Cuda, or Hemi Challenger R/T SE, are fools?

They're rich fools keep in mind.... different than the regular poor old fool...   


Mr. T says, "I pity the fool that buys a clone for huge bucks!"

[Challenger III]

A 1940's Mustang:

[Scat Pack Fever]

I took a basket case 1974 challenger and cloned it to a 1970 with t/a stripes, hood and duck tail all for under $8,000.00. it has a 360 in it. The vin is still on the dash that says it's a 1974. I cloned this car to look like a 1970 because I didn't have the money to buy the real t/a although it looks like one until you opened the hood or looked at the vin. Does this make me a fool? Check out the pic. it only looks expensive, but wouldn't sell for a ton of money. I do agree that "re-bodying" is wrong. Passing off an "original" hemi to someone that was an original 318 car is not being honest. At least with a clone, somone knows what their buying. It's just a matter of how much they are willing to pay.

[GranCuda1970]

I took a basket case 1974 challenger and cloned it to a 1970 with t/a stripes, hood and duck tail all for under $8,000.00. it has a 360 in it. The vin is still on the dash that says it's a 1974. I cloned this car to look like a 1970 because I didn't have the money to buy the real t/a although it looks like one until you opened the hood or looked at the vin. Does this make me a fool? Check out the pic. it only looks expensive, but wouldn't sell for a ton of money. I do agree that "re-bodying" is wrong. Passing off an "original" hemi to someone that was an original 318 car is not being honest. At least with a clone, somone knows what their buying. It's just a matter of how much they are willing to pay.

 Well you did a fantastic job and she looks great !!!Anyone would have to be nuts to not want to play with it.

[Scat Pack Fever]

Thanks! I plan on driving it and having lots of fun doing it.

[Super Blue 72]

Was thinking of your car when i saw a craigslist ad for Mickey thompson N50 tires on 14x10 Cragar S/S rims.    Looked VERY tempting! 

[Matt70]

"Mr. T says, "I pity the fool that buys a clone for huge bucks!"


Nice Super Blue 72    

[AARuFAST]

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