Quote Originally Posted by thunder427 View Post
......how about we refer to these 'Iconic' Race Cars by who built them, then who owned then ,in the correct order where possible ,EG: Doyle/Dickie Anglia........picky!!,picky!!,I know but I'm trying to impress Our David Mac !!!!!....regards thunder427/MJ

NB;the 4 to 5yrs I spent building the Bob Jane Camaro encompased all the points of discussion so far,after considering that the job was to 'big' for me and that I should fly to Alaska before I rang Bob and told him I had failed the job/project, someone thinking outside the 'square' subjested, in a throwaway remark..." so which configuration are you going to build,these 'Bloody' things changed from one meeting to the next and sometimes back again"!!!!.....point comprehended, I went on to build it in the 'Spirit' of 1970/71, to which I left all 'hammer' marks, welding trails......I built it as 'Tribute' to the 70's and the ability and creativeness of the the 70's Crew , sure I've been criticised for possibly 'Over Restoring' the Camaro,but I can tell you it was built,not merely as an asset, but for People/Fans to enjoy.....the first time I had it on display at Bathurst 2002, Bob asked me why I had created a fence around the Camaro,I explained to keep the people of the finished article, ....his response was, quote,"Loose the fence,I want people to feel they can get up close and personal with the o'l Girl, she as earnt the right to be an o'l 'Show Queen' , don't you think" ??? .......had the fence down immediately and to this day I have probably done more damage to her, than her Legion of Fans.......let's not loose sight of the enjoyment factor in the effort to Build Pollitcally Correct 'old' race cars........and I'm talking about our NZ/Aust 'open class' vehicles ,not the Pat Hoore Ferrari type of Racer.......regards again!!!
Another good point about the elusive authenticity claims. I know that the Bruce McLaren Trust's McLaren M8A is restored to a spec which applies to only one of the six 1968 CanAm races. And the car went on to be the "mule" for the following year's M8B winged incarnation and on down the line to be sold to privateer Motschenbacher and so on.

This discussion is really interesting but destined to have people regularly having to "agree to disagree". The rulemakers have their work cut out, walking a line between inclusivity, encouragement on one hand and exclusivity and strict adherence to originality criteria on the other side. Central Muscle Car became a very strong class with big fields and fierce racing, it served a need. As HQ bodies were dragged out of the wreckers and wrapped around all manner of V8 contrivance with all sorts of modern running gear the class started to lose most of it's cred as a real historic class. I stopped watching a couple of years ago and thought it sad that all the fences had come down. The inclusivity became the hole in the fence and the point for escalating costs.... but I digress.