| Re: FIA announcement
Chris, I've heard this as well but I have been unable to verify it. I think it comes about because they cannot police what is real (original) and what purports to be real(faithful copies). Before anybody joins in and disputes that let me illustrate a point. A friend of mine who is a brilliant fabricator made an AC Cobra chassis (the "ladder" frame, suspension etc) but also made it considerably stronger with racing in mind , and it was then "bodied" by a well known bodyworks here in the UK. Once it was finished the original plates/vin etc were transferred across to it and the "real" car now sits in a lock up (sans plates etc) while the "new" one races as an original Cobra.
Everybodies doing it, and how could the FIA dispute it when it is done so cleverly. I know of probably another 3 or 4 other cars that have had the same treatment.
Dave M |