Re: Motion Pics on ebay
I'm still trying to figure what the big deal is about Tim's listing.
1. It says "photoquality paper" It doesn't take 7 Philadelphia lawyers to figure out this is not an original print. Are the public schools giving us that bad of an education?
2. Most importantly of all it says in the ad to "Ask Questions" To me that says if you are not sure what you are bidding on to ask questions before you hit the Submit key.
3. One or two people said these photos were in Cars magazines over the years. True. But some people don't have the time etc to hunt down the issues the pics were in. Also some people don't have the correct printer to print off these pics. Figure your time and money to buy the correct mag, scan, transfer to a 3.5 disc and take to a printer + their labor cost and cost of photo paper, gas etc etc etc.
If I was putting together a display of my favorite dealer I would not want to display a bunch of open car mags to show the pic. It is actually a pretty good idea.
One of the posters above should not be the pot that calls the kettle black on ebay listings. While I don't have a clue on many of the items you sell on ebay I have seen some incorrect facts/vagarities on your vintage speed equipment listings on ebay and have never said a word or came on the site and bashed you and said what you were selling is wrong or incorrect. For instance, you had listed a set of Rocket(Cal Custom) valve covers on ebay some time back. They were chrome plated and had the SS-427 emblems attached. You said these were made by Rocket and kinda gave the ambigous impression this is how these covers came. I have a 1971 & '74 Rocket Racing Products Catalog, (printed May 1971-revised) and those style of covers are not in either catalog. I have never seen Rocket sell this style of cover in catalog or ad form.
I also have the '68, '69, '71 and '72 Cal Custom catalogs and the BBChevy VC never came chrome plated nor came with the SS-427 emblem. Somebody made your set up-either Motion or sombody wanting to captialize. Who ever plated them ground out the CC logo in the little circle.
Cal Custom never shared their tooling with any other company except when Mr. Gasket bought them out in '73 or '74. Those covers are a Cal Custom original. Yes many companies made the Motion style cover including Rocket (which are in the '71 & 74 catalog) and Weiand.
I have just about every speed equipment catalog from '67-75. I have also copied every new speed equipment introduction/ads from every car magazine frommm the era and have cataloged every one. I'm not a novice on vintage speed equipment.
However, I freely admit I've been wrong before and I'm constantly learning about things I thought were cut in stone before.
Dave aka Nfifty15 on ebay (785 pos, no negs or neutrals)
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