MR2 to 355

This guy should be shot. I dont know if this is a repost but he should still be shot.

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/curld7/myhomepage/auto.html

 

Actually I have imense respect for people who actually make good replicas.
Hold on Hold on, I know what you thinking. But think about it, it is far harder to make try to make somthing look exactly like somthing else than it is to just create your own design. However Im not a fan of replicars I do have respect for their workmanship.

 

I am with Saleenfan... this is a fakey-doo... a nice looking one, yes, but still a fakey-doo.

Normally, these conversions look out of proportion when the wheelbase and track isn't quite right. And then there are the body gaps.

I saw a later MR2 Spyder converted to Ferrari 360 in SCM a month or so ago.
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Proportions are all way off on these - all the nuance of the Pininfarina designs is gone. So I'm not impressed with the craftsmanship.

And... they don't sound like a Ferrari. As has posted here six thousand times, these things are a pointless disgrace.

I guess as long as the car gets sold as a replica then no laws are being broken. But driving a fake Ferrari is pretty much the same shallow mentality as wearing a fake Rolex - pretending to be rich to impress people.

 

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So Bullfighter, your post would imply that those of us that do own the real McCoys, are trying to give the same impression!

I'm not; are you??

 

Hey Skip

I agree, I don't think everyone is trying to pretend they have $$$. If someone wants to spend their own money on it, so be it. I just checked out the site and it did look pretty good. One thing though, I think if you are going to do a replica, it should be left unbadged. Even if someone were to do a 308 to 288 conversion, I'd leave the 288 GTO insignia off. Just my $.02

 

How's this for a replica? It was a Fiero.
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Why can't we make women like this as well?

 

Oh I think we do already

 

Ya +1 hahaha... Haven't you seen that Beverly Hills plastic surgeon show....

 

Yes, exactly on the shallow mentality. Even if the craftsmanship was 100% perfect it is still a replica.

 

It still is.

 

No.

My post says that there's the real thing - whether it's the Mona Lisa, or the Olympics, or a Sinatra recording. Then there's the Milton Bradley paint-by-numbers Mona Lisa kit, pro wrestling and some lounge singer in Vegas in a polyester tux.

You either get the real experience, or you're clueless, and those Ferrari owners who enjoy lording it over the commoners in their Nissans, BMWs and even Porsches are missing out on the real experience. And those who think these replicas capture Pininfarina's achievements are doing the Mona Lisa paint-by-numbers thing so they, too, can have the finest Italian art hanging on their wall.

Absolutely they should be left unbadged. In fact it's probably counterfeiting if the replica has the trademarked badge applied to it.

 

Yes 100%, it should be enforced too. If a cop runs the plate of a car and it comes up "Pontiac" and it has Ferrari badging, they should be citied for copyright/trademark infringement.... that would sure be embarrassing with a date in the car.

 

Sorry but I have not kept "abreast" of that!

 

Referring to the plastic surgery remark, people with amblyopia are often amnestic in thier choice of automobilia. The MR2 - 360 conversion is somewhat parallel to Asian blepharoplasty, causing those that experience it visually to feel waves of Bruxism, among other things. Rhytidectomy still has the same underlying tissues.

BT

 

and I suppose we all owe you $500 for that contribution to this thread.

 

Good one!!!!

 

Don't encourage a reply that will cost another $500

 

Or I could fight it and pay $1000 to a lawyer too...

 

I only approve of replicas if they are exacting in every detail. Like this one:
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Job well done. Looks good.

 

Bill,

Please take it easy on us!

I just learned how to spell En-Cy-Clo-Pedia from watching enough Disney movies!

I am just making it up to 35 cent words. 50 and 75 cent I can't yet do!

 

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