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Darryl,
Just because something has been going on for a long time does not mean it has to be tolerated. Here is a recent thread about a distributor the guy is selling as authentic that you even commented on:
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/showflat...true#Post425873
From your comment, it sounds like you think it is not an original. The seller says it is. Looks at his other auctions and ended ones. He is selling current oil pans and implying they have been in storage for years. While its possible, it is misleading. Deception has been going on in this hobby for years also. Does that make it OK?
I know you are being the devil's advocate here and are being realistic. I understand what goes on and have seen a lot myself. That does not mean that we have to accept it.
Jason
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What individuals will tolorate is a personal choice. There are no laws that prohibit this restamping other than if someone can prove fraud regarding misrepresentation of a car with a restamped engine, which at best is VERY hard (and expensive) to prove.
That however is not REALLY the point I am trying to make here, but rather that the hobby talks out of both sides of its mouth regarding this and disclosure.
SO MANY cars have been out there for years, sold many times with restamped engines for top dollar right along with the cars with the REAL original engines. never any OPENED disclosure. Who knows what was admitted between the owners over the years. There just are NOT as many original engine hipo cars left compared to how many currently EXIST. Just as there are probably more big block mid year Corvettes out there today than GM built.
As far as what WE will accept certainly varies throughout the hobby and people have been turning their heads to what they suspect or KNOW when it comes to buying these old cars so long as it doesn't cost THEM any money for what MAY be true.
My comment on the other thread about the distributor was regarding the distributors in general as they were not really transistorized systems but rather a capacitor discharge system with an "amplifer" box. Slightly different and the forerunners to the later high energy ignition.
If the guy is selling oil pans or any other part that is a repo or not as it is being represented to be, then of course it is wrong and outright disception. But that has to be proven before we can really complain about it. We live in America where were are to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Yes, I often play devils advocate in these posts, someone has to. And yes, deception has been going on for years. My point is that regarding my example of restamped engines and the NCRS's stance on it smacks of being two faced on the subject. BTW, I ended my membership with NCRS because I got sick and tired of going to their events that the people spent more time sitting around talking about the memorized part numbers on their trailer queens rather than driving the cars and having fun, which was the root reason we all bought these cars in the first place.
