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Originally Posted by Ferraripete
campys were period correct obviously. my father had a 275 gtb/4 when I was a child. his b/4 had campys. the nart spyders nearly all had borannis...save for a few. the campys looked best on a coupe and the 25 nart commissioned and 10 actually built looked more elegant with the wires.
just to level set, I commented on the metal work as well and said it was nearly too lovely to have paint... you may have missed that? sorry if that came off as harsh.
I was not however inaccurate w/ the downside of owning a replica of any fabled Ferrari. no fca or foc owners club event will welcome you. owners tend to look down on the replicars and hate that a donor car was sacrificed. in this case a 400...forgivable to most. last, Ferrari does look to crush replicas...fact.
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Seems your first paragraph is more subjective than fact save "the nart spyders nearly all had borannis... save a few." So while they may look "odd" in you opinion they would be correct. Especially for a car that is race prepped like this one. Which would also make the roll bar correct. As TRE proved in his post.
No I did not miss your post "lovely work. almost too pretty to paint!" came after Reveir posted the three photos of the unpainted bodies. It's not difficult to conclude the comment was directed at those two cars, not the nart replicar.
I think all of us car guys would agree if you took a perfectly good donor 400 and destroyed it, that would be unfortunate. However, since we know nothing about the donor car maybe it was to far gone to save? If for no other reason than from a monetary stand point. 400's don't bring much money. Since nart's run in the tens of millions maybe the builder thought a recreation using genuine Ferrari parts would be fun and make good use of a derelict 400, and save himself $20,000,000.00. I bet there are plenty of people that would drop a $1,000,000.00 to buy that car.
I don't think anyone made mention of trying to enter this car in Ferrari owners clubs or Ferrari sanctioned events? Of course I can see why they wouldn't aside from the fact it is not real. It quite possibly could be better than an original since the 400 components have 30 years newer technology.
Perhaps the only fact in your posts is that "Ferrari looks to crush replica's"? I don't know. Maybe they do. I do know they have sued to stop having replicars that are to correct from being built and sold, as was the case with at least one California replicar. Based on your screen name I think this says it all... "owners tend to look down on the replicars"
Oh yes... "Imitation is the highest form of flattery". Keep calm it won't diminish the value of an original.