Truth be told, I think that the guys that are the customers for reproduced classics are not even in the market for the original. Do the new Bates or new Hetchins get thirties, forties or early fifties parts put on 'em? 'Course not!
I imagine it goes like this: Twenty something in a brand new Mini Cooper at the gas station and a sixty something says, "Hey, cool, I used to have a Austin Cooper S with all the Paddy Hopkirk go-fast stuff and the twenty something has this blank look on his mug.
Chuck "I like 'dead people's stuff'" Schmidt SoPas, SoCal
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