Re: replicas

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd say that you have stretched the word 'replica' to the breaking 
point by including the T-Bird. Some styling cues from the classic 
mid-fifties 'Birds, yes, but I don't think that the current offering is 
even MEANT to do any more than evoke a vague reminiscence of those 
classic cars. OTOH, the 4R Zagato  looks very much like the 6C175. It 
fails ultimately only because of the different scale and small wheels 
covering disc brakes. Now if they had made the car the same size as the 
original 6C and put the 2600 motor in it and used the original's 21" 
wire wheels, THAT would have been a replica!


George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0S



On Saturday, Aug 2, 2003, at 13:44 US/Pacific, alfa-digest wrote:


> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 21:28:06 -0700
> From: "Jeff Thraen" <jeff@domain.elided>
> Subject: replicas
>
> George Graves wrote:
>
> "If I'm not mistaken, Jaguar built some replicas of the
> pre-war (and still stunningly beautiful) SS-100 in the 1960s too. These
> used the then current XK DOHC straight six but looked a lot more like
> the original car than the 4R Zagato looked like a 6C1750."
>
> And so did Ford in 2002 - The T-bird!
>
> To my taste, replicas always lose the character that made the original
> original.
>
> Jeff Thraen
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