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Also while BE rears are hard to come by they aren't impossible and since that is one of the "key" COPO components people are even restamping them...
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Greg, I know of a guy right now that is building a Yenko clone, actually really good fake. He started with an X66 that was originally an L35 minus the engine. The rear was coded BL and he restamped the L to E. The kicker to this whole deal is that it is right in the middle of the first 50 Yenkos built in 69! I know that there are a few things that I will not mention here that will give the car away, but to the unknowing it could be passed off as legit. This situation is not the norm for most clones as the car is the fake. Now let me tell you what I looked at this weekend.
I had a guy send me to look at a car in Atlanta on Saturday. It was supposed to be a legit documented big block. Well everything was correct on the car, original engine, trans, rear, and even the shocks! No restamps here. This thing was beautiful! The owner gave me all of the documentation and I went and made copies at a local Kinkos. Well last night during the boring part of the SuperBowl I discovered the buildsheet was a fake! A very good one at that. A few things that gave it away were that some of the codes were wrong for his application. The shock numbers and the radiator hose codes were wrong. Not something I would have caught while looking at the car but only upon closer inspection. The fonts on some of the numbers were not the same as the original sheets I had for other cars built around the time his was. I told the possible buyer that the car was probably legit but the paperwork was bogus. He said the he would have to do some checking with previous owners to find out where the docs got bogused up before considering this car for purchase. So here is a situation where the paperwork was made to help document a car that really could have stood on its own without it.
About the only way we can keep this hobby honest is to police it ourselves. When everyone realizes that a trim tag, buildsheet, window sticker, or POP are items that should not be allowed to be reproduced, then the fakes are going to get harder to detect.
BTW, didn't someone get in a fight with the guy that repros the POP's at Bloomington a few years ago?......
.........RatPack...........