Clone Complex

[Unreal]

I'm building a 69 Yenko Camaro Tribute Car. I've tried to be true to the originals in most ways, and patterned mine after a Fathom Green/black stripe car once owned by BKH. The one great departure was air conditioning. My car started life as a small block with A/C. When I rebuilt, I left the A/C, and converted everything to 69-correct b/b A/C parts. Some would consider this a sacrilege, but I'm installing a real COPO (CE replacement) motor.
I try to differentiate the fakes from the tribute cars. Fakes imply fraud; tribute cars do not. Clearly, my intentions are honest.
I just read a thread on another board about a Yenko Camaro. It was stolen, stripped, slavaged, found, rebodied, restamped, and resold. Is that more, or less a fake than a Tribute Car?

You'll find folks on both sides of the issue, here on this board. Some will consider you "one of the boys" and others would prefer that you be banished to a leper colony. It's a great site, so I take the good with the bad.

Tribute or real, owners share one trait...love of the super cars.
Enjoy the hobby with your son.