Patton Dickson wrote:
> Since you guys brought up the MGC GTS, I did a web search
> and came up with this site...
> http://www.mgcars.de/seiten/sebring_gts.html
>
> What's with the nefarious claims about conspiracies? Is
> there a better site to learn about the cars?
Derek Durst had this car listed on eBay about two years ago, and I hope it
never sold, but there was a substantial discussion on this very list about
the authenticity of that car.
If you search the MG archives for these two threads:
' MGC Sebring Car / Fraud ' and ' Interesting "Sebring MGC"...LONG '
I, like Kelvin, love the MGC Sebring cars, and as a result I did extensive
background research on this car at the time it was forsale to provide
evidence to the contrary that it was a genuine car (as it was immediately
clear to me that it was a fake, I had been aware of the car prior to its
appearance on eBay). Kelvin had a first hand account of seeing the car in
person, I believe, while I spent quite a bit of time tracking down and
talking to the people who maintain and own the real RMO and MBL cars.
Tracked down an ex-works dept employee who had knowledge of how many shells
there actually were, and also John Chatham who got the spare body parts and
a semi completed shell when the MGC works program was finished.
Aside from the historical evidence against the car, there are plenty of
oddities with this car that don't conform to the two confirmed Works MGCs.
Again, full listing of those issues is discussed in archived posts.
Summarily, the mountains of evidence claiming the car to be the real deal,
were really mole hills of filled with nostalgic hope. The history of the car
for the last 20 years is just a sad story of how multiple unscrupulous
owners have tried to establish a false history for this car and pass it on
to unassuming and willing purchasers as the real RMO699F.
Kai
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