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Originally Posted by 4pipes
Alright, I'll go out on a limb here. If you don't want the real deal built in the '60's, for what ever reasons, the next best thing would be one that looked exactly the same and was dimensionally perfect.
This would provide you with a perfect replica that you could drive everywhere and not be concerned with damage, theft, or accumulated miles.
If that were the case, why wouldn't you want all the parts to have benefitted from 50 years of learning in casting, forging, metallurgy, switch craft, manufacturing processes?
IOW, why would you want all that old unreliable crap!
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I happen to agree. I read the list of parts including the original side oiler, Lucas switches, Smiths gauges, etc. and thought "meh." But that's me.
The only issue with this "perfect replica" is that you cannot drive it on a public road. To me, for the amount of money a person will spend on this car, and can only be operated on a race track, I can think of a very long list of track cars that I'd rather have and be much safer in while on a track. And then get to drive it to my local oyster bar.
What is an interesting question to me is how these cars will fit on the replica hierarchy. Personally, if I were picking a CSX to buy, I'd probably pick one those fourteen-ish CSX1000's, if I had to have a CSX, which in reality, I could care less about.