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Fanamc a écrit:Juste à titre d'information, (clone) est un mot français..............

Clone or Tribute

The word "clone" used to be a deal-killer when selling a muscle car. If the car wasn't a real deal SS or Hemi or Cobra, the vehicle was seriously de-valued and even ridiculed. The "c" word was rarely seen in a prominent place in muscle car classifieds. A few simple realities have changed that perception.

First of all, there were only so many muscle cars manufactured. Lots of them served as regular drivers and ended up in a junk yard. Others were severely modified for drag racing or street racing. Many beautiful muscle cars were saved and completely restored to better than new condition. But as the baby boomers get to the place where they can afford to purchase the car that got away or that they always wanted, the number of available original muscle cars has shrunk. Even a buyer with dispensable income is reluctant to pay the exorbitant prices that were being asked for the verified original factory muscle cars in the pastfew years. And when you have the choice to buy a complete rust bucket numbers-matching Hemi Road Runner or a completely restored, driver friendly Plymouth Satellite with full Hemi Road Runner badging and detail at less than half the price...what would you do?

Nowadays the muscle car classifieds may say "tribute" or "replica" or some other term but they still mean a standard model was restored as its faster, big muscle sibling.

Buick68 a écrit:Le Black Widow (Chevrolet 1957) en serait un bel exemple d'hommage