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Originally Posted by joyridin'
If the number is simply nonsense, then why bother to remove it at all? Everybody obviously knows it is a fake. No misrepresentation here. The number is known to everyone as not being real.
So let's take a hypothetical. Shelby is tired of buying aluminum cars from Kirkham, so they take a Kirkham body to an outside supplier to see if they can reproduce the body. The outside supplier does a great job, but Shelby doesn't have the money to pay for it or it is just too much work, so the supplier is sitting there with this body and frame. He unloads it to somebody who states they want to assemble the car. Voila! Now we have a car with certain markings sitting in somebody's garage! Very possible scenario. Does anybody own up to it? Heck no!
Nothing being misrepresented in this scenario at all.
Actually, what I find offensive is people making ignorant accusations on a forum about deception like you are doing and telling the owner he/she must remove items on their car because you feel it is offensive. I'll tell you what to do since you do not own the car. If you don't like it, then stop posting on this thread and leave. You know...like changing the channel on the TV when you don't like the program.
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The number "666" is nonsense to me, so I'd remove it. Why remove it at all? Because the car COULD be misrepresented in the future, by any future owner.
And I'm not accusing anyone of deception or misrepresentation. But the car COULD be misrepresented in the future.
Your hypothetical is great, but it's just a hypothetical. We could make up lots of stories to embellish the history of this Cobra. Maybe start with a racing history at Lemans and Sebring, the team number on the car when it was raced was "666" and then the car was disassembled and stored in a barn. That sounds much better.
Obviously, Ned, the actual real Cobra Registrar feels the ID plates and numbers should be removed too, along with all the Cobra replicas out there, because a misrepresentation COULD take place in any number of ways by any future seller. And the seller could be sued, for just riveting a ID plate and stamping numbers in various places.
However, every replica owner can choose to make a more accurate replica with ID plates and stamped ID's, but it's their dime and they can roll the dice by unsuspecting, but vexatious attorney who wants to sue them.
And if you don't like what I have to say about replicas wearing fake AC #'s with fake ID plates then you also can change the channel.