[danw]

When someone asks "Is it real?", my standard response (using the subjunctive mood for things that cannot be) is "If it were there would be six burly gentlemen about twice your size, with bad attitudes and garlic breath, keeping you about 30 feet away." (I generally don't mention the tank traps and sticky paper...)

And I try to reeducate the masses away from the term "kit car" because it seems to have such a negative connotation. (Always with the negative waves, Moriarty...) I tend to slide right past "replica" and prefer the Barrett-Jackson terminology "tribute car".