Clone Cars ---- Make it YOUR way !

[Carlwalski]

Personally PG, I'd flag it   Spend that money on a car that doesn't have to be converted back to original spec.
Like I'd try and look for an add with a selling point of: ""Make an excellent Clone!" Let someone else do a good resto on the challenger and keep it stock and a pefect Mopar to live on for ever and ever and........
Your beast deserves a whole new car that can be "cloned" to your liking   00.02  

[Triple Black hemi]

good restored clones are bringing in big $$$$$$ these day's......

[4Cruizn]

I can see this debate can go either way.  But if a had a choice of 2 car that have the same option/engine and one is # matching and the other not??  For the same price??  I makes sense to buy the matching # car just becaus in the long run, that car will hold its value better than the non matching.  

I too have a # matching e body and also a  convert. clone that I'm building now.  And as soon as I'm done with the clone, I'm going to tear the # matching car apart and make it how I want too.  Of course I will keep the original part so if I ever wanted to put it back to original, I could!   But if I own the car, I'm going to personalize it for me!  I want a hemi cuda but can afford to spend $$$$ for it so I have to build my own and certainly can do it alot cheaper and a # hemi cuda.

[Carlwalski]

True, I forgot about if they were but then again "IF" is the main word, I doubt a cloned body shell ready to take a 440/833 would be the same price as a #'s matching  

But still why not leave that original Mopar to someone who will restore it rather than destroy it for a while.

Clones are all good, people say "but I aint selling it" what about when you pass on, what about the people in the furture who could buy the car? That's why using a non-matching numbers car in my books to make clones is the best thing for our Mopars.
Clones can be classed differently from enigines swapped OR all new interior.

[GreenFish]

Ive always said... build what you like.. its your car. To hell with what eveyone else thinks ,its not their money that is being spent.

[Carlwalski]

Clones are all good if the engine's gone and what not, but people chopping up #'s matching? Doesn't go down to well in this hobby, it might be your car and all, but there WILL be people after you who will get the car, and if it's be distroyed Hmmmmm doesn't sound fair to ma Mopar.

[GreenFish]

ok I agree with that... I guess what i meant was.. if you have a car like mine, which was an original 383 auto car. its been swapped over for a 440. I think the original engine blew or something. Happend before i owned it.
and now the paint is of an AAR clone.

I wouldnt go hacking up an original numbers matching car unless you go from a 383 auto , or some very common combination, to a Hemi or 440. I think that would be ok.. and its not like you cant change it back.

[Carlwalski]

No thats all good I'd do the same, it's really good when people buy bodies of really solid nice Mopars and restore them already knowing that it's not a #'s matching car a chuck a 440 or HEMI, I think that's great if it isn't a #'s matching car there restoring, it's a clone that couldn't have been restored to original spec because of no engine etc  
Either way I guess people are getting them Mopars looking good and out in numbers on the road!!  

[Bart]

Check out my post in the test area today, this was a 1971 Grand Coupe, that was a 318 car, but then had a 340 put in, and is now a Hemi car.