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Re: Algers and other clones

To: CoolVT@aol.com
Subject: Re: Algers and other clones
From: Theo Smit <tsmit@shaw.ca>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:49:36 -0700
A cloned Alger is where someone starts with a Husky chassis.

More seriously... I regard an Alpine with a small-block Ford engine swap 
(retaining its Alpine VIN) as a straight-up Alger, an "authentic" Tiger 
clone if you will. There's only a problem when the resulting car gets 
legally titled as a Tiger. Bigger issues arise when a Tiger gets 
"restored" by attaching the Tiger specific sheetmetal (including the 
VIN) onto an Alpine bodyshell. The moral and legal problems with this 
have been thrashed out fairly thoroughly in the past...

Theo

CoolVT@aol.com wrote:

>Think some of us are concerned with Algers? What if people actually began 
>"cloning" Algers?  You ask what the he_ _  is a cloned Alger?  Well, I don't 
>know 
>either, but apparently there is a problem developing with cloned Shelby 
>Mustangs.  Otherwise why would someone run the following ad?
>
>"For sale, 1967 very authentic Shelby Mustang clone."  Notice this isn't some 
>kind of a pretend clone or fake clone, but an authentic clone. And, it had an 
>$85,000 price tag so it must have been authentic.
>
>Do we now have to set up a TAC group to sniff out the fake Algers?
>Mark L.




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