[Hal Copple]

Bob Olthoff has told me at the AutoFairs and the like, where he exhibits his SPF cars, his interesting observation. He can be sited right next to a big new car exhibit, where people crawl all over and into the cars on display, but people at his SPF display simply don't touch the cars. Dads keep their kids right by their sides.

I think the shape and heritage of the Replicas are just so intimidating, so awe inspiriing, so seldom seen up close, that people just won't touch them. I greatly enjoy parking my car on the curb in Charleston, in the trendy area, and sitting in a chair with my Diet Coke, and watching and listening to the constant crowd of people standing around my SPF. I don't think i have ever seen anyone actually touch my car.

There are many adjectives that describe cars: handsome, svelte, sleek, stylish, feline, exotic and so forth.

But i don't think there is any car outthere, excepting our Replicas, that would be described best by the description as "brutal."

These cars have all the refinement of a Medieval Battle Ax, and i believe are profoundly intimidating to folks. So they don't tend to touch them.

It's how I see it.