help! what is a clone called

[chrisd]

I'm writing an article and I'm having a brain fart. What do some people call a car that has been made up to be something more than what it is. The word I'm thinking of is like a dedication, but I can't pinpoint it.
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[kdtjb]

Tribute

 

[chrisd]

Tribute

Thank you!!!


Old age sucks

 

[Richard Cranium]

Whatis a clone called....seriously???

Fill in the missing vowel.

CL NT

 

[glassman]

With all these American Muscle Experts out there , and all these hot rods being built to run on the street or in a class for NHRA racing, which my 63 Dodge Polara with an aluminum nose was, I had the pleasure of running into a clown with a shop in either Penn State or New York that kept refering to my car as a "FAKE" over the internet. I really never even called it a clone or a tribute, I called it a class racer. I have been told by other dealers since, that the guy was a Know it all Cheevy guy. Go figure.

 

[69Coronetrt]

What do some people call a car that has been made up to be something more than what it is.
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The proper and polite word would be "prevarication".

 

[A383Wing]

Whatis a clone called....seriously???

Fill in the missing vowel.

CL NT

yea, you should know, huh?

 

[69redrunner]

B-Jackson likes to use the term " re-creation". Makes it sound more expensive! !!

 

[Budnicks]

Clone, tribute, re-creation, continuation, copy or facsimile's {some would even say a fake, I don't like that mentality} I like tribute or clone, least derogatory... it's someone's pride & joy... or sometimes it's just cool, less expensive, more affordable car, that looks similar to factory type car... as long as they don't try to sell/pass it off as something it's not... their all good with me...

 

[Moparsmitty]

One of the dealers I know told me that he calls them "tributes" because he thinks that calling them "clones" is like calling them "fakes'. I don't agree with him, but he's an example of people having different ideas of what these labels mean. If I had a car that was cloned, I wouldn't have any problem with that tag.

 

[aldal]

I am building a 1965 Dodge Coronet, Hemi etc. will look a lot like an A990 car but with some different things that I prefer. I am not trying to pass it off as a clone, a tribute car or anything else and I really don't give a tinkers damn what anybody calls it or thinks about it for that matter. Just my 2 cents

 

[67GTX440]

Bogusmobile!

 

[Chase383]

More fun than a 1 of 1 trailer queen that never gets driven.....

 

[HT413]

You can mock tributes/clones/fakes, I can mock trailer queens and guys who dump $50k into a car they don't even know how to drive or are just afraid to.

It's a fun hobby, not a political party. Take the hate to moparts.

 

[A383Wing]

I got one clone here..mainly because I could not afford the real thing....I drive the hell out of it

Funny thing, the guys that quickly point out that it's a clone are the guys with "check-book cars" that never see the road or a full tank of gas

 

[MarPar]

whatever you want to call it, I would take it everyday, and twice on sunday...

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[Hemi Rebel]

Look-a-like

 

[RS23VOA]

MarPar
what brakes are on the front of that convertible??

 

[Dennis H]

I'll take it too. That said, tribute vs clone is like global warming vs climate change. Both bull$hit terms.

 

[MarPar]

MarPar
what brakes are on the front of that convertible??

That is the "Birdable" and it is MoparStuart's car. not quite sure what he's got for brakes, but I know he was doing a giant overhaul on the car as of late...