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03-20-2006, 05:27 PM
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Repro Corvette Tri-Power Units
Has anyone seen these reproduction tri-power setups? They are priced as high of higher than the original units and have 1966 dates cast into them. I would think that GM would want them marked somehow so you could tell thm repops from the originals.
James http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1967-Corv...1QQcmdZViewItem
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03-20-2006, 05:40 PM
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Re: Repro Corvette Tri-Power Units
Wow! Looks like we're all going to be hunting for the cracked or damaged ones to be able to tell the REAL from the REPRO.
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03-20-2006, 09:42 PM
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Re: Repro Corvette Tri-Power Units
------They are licensed by GM therefore GM is theoretically making thier money on them (EMI). If there was some sort of tattletale mark on them they would be worth less. When there is money in it GM will take the profitable road..........Bill S
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03-21-2006, 02:17 AM
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Re: Repro Corvette Tri-Power Units
Does this much Winter's aluminum get anybody else excited?
 
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03-21-2006, 02:56 AM
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Re: Repro Corvette Tri-Power Units
Unfortunately GM hasn't been able to turn a profit in quite a while. They just recently revised Q4 profits as an even greater loss.
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03-21-2006, 04:35 AM
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Re: Repro Corvette Tri-Power Units
Maybe they will sell the manifolds/carbs at "Employee Prices"! That brainstorm just about put them out of business, a little more couldn't hurt...
wilma 
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03-22-2006, 01:31 AM
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Re: Repro Corvette Tri-Power Units
the employee pricing just moved all of the stagnant inventory off the lots and kept people working, otherwise they would have had to shut down quite a few assembly plants and lay people off.
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03-22-2006, 04:10 AM
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Re: Repro Corvette Tri-Power Units
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the employee pricing just moved all of the stagnant inventory off the lots and kept people working, otherwise they would have had to shut down quite a few assembly plants and lay people off. [/ QUOTE ] Sadly, this is probably coming anyway!  Steve
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03-22-2006, 06:12 AM
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Re: Repro Corvette Tri-Power Units
Until they (the automakers) start producing cars to demand instead of to capacity they are going to bleed red ink.
Just because you have capacity doesn't mean you have to use it. All you do is flood the market and drive the price down. The one who wins the price war is the one who is the lowest cost producer... which is not the US makers with their legacy costs. Overproduction and Price wars have killed Ford and GM. They need to close their highest cost facilities concentrate on platforms that yield the most different vehicles with the fewest number of production changes and run with it... Unless they change quickly the Chinese are going to destroy them.
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