I want to thank you all for this lively discussion. Please let it
continue! Fo those of you who don't know it I am the Midwest
editor for Victory Lane Magazine. I'm also doing research for an
article that I'll be writing on the subject in the near future.
I hope you won't mind if I quote some of your comments.
I've been up front about how I feel about the subject but I think
I should clarify my point just a tad. Ill be the first to stand
with you about the "plastic" Cobras. The replicas I refer to are
the recreations of original racers that could possibly baffle
those who know the real things. I refer to the C and D type Jaguars
that are currently coming out of England, or, the phenomenal
Aston Martin DB4 Zagato that Joe Hish had made by Shapecraft in
Britain Based on VEV 2 Jim Clark's old ride. For that matter I'm
also referring to the Ferrari GTO SWB that Joe Marchetti had made
by a panel beater in Wisconsin, using the original plans and
Ferrari running gear, or Lyn Park's Cobra Daytona replica which was
built on the original body bucks to original secifications. If these
cars are getting so rare or expensive, why not let the less expensive
albeit carefully done replica vintage race? Isn't the real fear here
that at some future time these "replicas" get passed off as the real
thing? If everyone knows the car is a replica and there is no attempt
to "defraud the public" who is harmed by allowing a wider variety in
the racing ticket?
Granted vintage racing is for you, the collector... But isn't it also
for me the photographer, and the person who loves the sound, spectacle
and history vintage racing represents?
Thanks again... Please keep the ball rolling!
Greg Petrolati (who WILL be at the VSCDA Vintage Fall Festival...
I wouldn't miss it!)
gpetrola@prairienet.org 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
"That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!"
Greg Petrolati, Champaign, Illinois
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