Originally Posted by Image
These things tear me in half .... one half falls in love with the design, workmanship and engineering ... and the other half is thinking fake, kit-car, pastiche. Saw a couple at the last Revival ... looked great ... but ?

K

I see what you're coming from, but then if Bob Petersen had been building Bentley Specials back in the 1930s I suspect nobody would have an issue with them now? I don't think they deserve to be thought of as fakes, because nobody is trying to claim them as anything other than they are.

I don't have much of an idea how much these things fetch in comparison to true originals, but I'd be surprised if there was that much of a difference, given the advantages of the Petersen improvements


Tim H.
1986 4/4 VVTi Sport, 2002 LR Defender, 2022 Mini Cooper SE