It does'nt bother me particularly that people repro the parts, but I hate the fact that there will always be just a few people who will try to pass off a repro item as genuine, and this problem will only get worse as the repro parts 'age'/get patina.
I think fortunately with accessories, by the time most people can afford/are ready to buy them your knowledge is pretty good anyway to spot the difference.
Its taken me 20years to even get half interested in accessories, and thats only because Owen keeps trying to force them on me even though I dont want them! I am always telling him "take those bloody silly toolkits and steering wheels
away from my car"! :lol:
In the past I simply was'nt prepared to pay the money commanded by the few rare accessories I actually like, so I have always preferred to have none at all rather than yucky repro ones. But of course we are all different.
I feel the same way about fully restored split and oval 'sunroof cars' that are really tin roof cars with sunroof sections added but then tried to be passed off as genuine.
Even worse when cars are advertised for sale like that. I hate that. Its dishonest and I will always call them up on it. Funnily I was just reading a 1950(sunroof) resto thread on another forum. Same forum there's golde sunroof 65 for sale, car's a good price but no mention that the roof is not og. :roll:
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"it'll wreck the patina you haven't worked so hard to create" - 50Karmann