Bogus Yenko sighting at Carlise

[Peter]

Agree with COPO on this one. All these wonderful sights (not being sarcastic they really are great) do everything they can to keep the vin numbers and related info to themselves to keep the general public in the dark about what makes the car real so its harder to build a fake. Problem is that the buyer IS the general public that doesn't have all the info so they have a hard time knowing if the car is real and take a chance thinking all that paperwork that comes with the car must mean its legit. Yenko's, COPO's and such and being "created" all the time. When was the last time you heard of a fake ZL1 being bought and sold as real but ending up being a fake? Maybe you have but very rare. Why? Because the vin numbers and all related info has been public access to anyone for some time now. Most of you guys with real cars don't want to give up your valuable info especially now with even more fakes being sold but its not helping keeping all the info to yourselves. Its easy to say that if you think the car your looking at is real then call Joel Rosen, Yenko Registry, CRG etc but it may be too late by that time or too many other questions come up and by that time the car is gone. The ZL1 cars may not be faked as much because of the low number made but I think it is more related to the fact that so much info is public including the vin numbers. Its not that easy to make a clone and use a legit vin number. There are plenty of registries with all kinds of critical data on all these websites and until the info is made public there will be tons of clones made. Seems to me the info isn't hard to get, just hard to get public. People give their info to the registries hoping it stays with the registries. I understand that but it doesn't do anyone else that wants to purchase these cars any good to have that info solely in the possesion of the people that already know how to tell the bad cars from the good. I'm not bitter but I blame the registries for alot of the clones. I used to think to myself that the people that buy these clones are sometimes fools for asking "is the car I just paid tons of money for real" after buying the car. You guys all reply buyer beware and ask these questions before hand but its almost impossible. Can I call Joel Rosen in one minute if I'm at a auction? I don't think so. The only way to stop the cloning is to not buy them. The only way to not buy them is to know its a clone. The only way to know its a clone it to have as much information about the kind of car you are looking at up front!! Sorry for making this so long and thank you for letting me vent. I don't mean to upset anyone by telling them they should make the info public knowledge but its the public buying these things