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by zahistorics
Wed 15 Aug 2007, 21:50
Forum: General/Lounge
Topic: "Fraudulent" Perana Plates
Replies: 24
Views: 8042

Re: "Fraudulent" Perana Plates

Yes agree - topic can stay at borderstreetrods - but I'm really chuffed to see that some debate about a difficult issue has helped light up a number of ZA classic car forums at last. Feelings run high on that topic because of the way things have been said over time, so for let it be a little lesson ...
by zahistorics
Wed 15 Aug 2007, 21:31
Forum: Chevrolet/Holden/Opel/Pontiac/Vauxhall/Ranger
Topic: Classic Race Car History
Replies: 247
Views: 76910

Re: Classic Race Car History

Back to CanAms then: There were 3 Chev dealer team CanAms As far as I know the fates of these three cars after the championshp are: 1 = interim unknown to me, but eventually it was cut up to build a Manucaturer's Challenge Opel Rekord V8 2 = sold to Dick Mawson, painted black raced only occasionally...
by zahistorics
Wed 15 Aug 2007, 20:52
Forum: Road Cars
Topic: Replicas and Originals
Replies: 14
Views: 9725

Replicas and Originals

This post was inspired by recent posts here, and accross at Borderstreetrods: On the subject of replicas and originals I think there are two issues here. Firstly where a copy (of anything) is presented as an original (unintentionally or otherwise) it corrupts the history of the thing it is supposed ...
by zahistorics
Wed 15 Aug 2007, 20:42
Forum: Chevrolet/Holden/Opel/Pontiac/Vauxhall/Ranger
Topic: Classic Race Car History
Replies: 247
Views: 76910

Re: Classic Race Car History

Hi all,

Been following this with interest.

EDIT: a bit later.... decided to move what I wrote here so as not to hijack the thread. see:
http://www.africanmusclecars.com/forum/ ... p?f=7&t=74

John