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Originally Posted by nilfish76
The classic Replica car is amazing, i have been to there workshop and seen it first hand, very very impressed with the keen eye to detail but to hear such bad rep on hear and in many other places makse me want to vear away from dealin with them, to have a dino replica is difficult and only seemed to be one so try out dehavilland on facebook, i am very impressed uses a doner car for part of the rolling chasis, really looking forward to see there finished article, i want to know how they are going to finish the interior. is there anybody else that do a dino replica?
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I've been following this thread for a while now. Can you be sure this is an actual cr car from the ground up? Several early cr cars were infact deons that were either finished off for deon customers or went in for centre console modifications to appear more like originals. The black gts used in their advertising is a deon that they brought from a deon owner and claimed as they own. The moulds they have supposedly taken from a real dino were in fact taken from a deon that they finished for a deon customer in rerturn for being allowed to take the moulds from. I know this as I visited cr when the moulds were being made.Luckily gordon was in america on holiday. The guy who was making the moulds ( marus king ) explained everything to me about gordon ainsbury's plans for classic replicas ,where deon came in etc etc. The car in question was fitted with a ford 2.9 v6 engine and the completed rolling chassis was in gordons unit where he traded in the hgv and haulage business , which incidentally was right next door to deons unit!!!
He had big plans for the car, altering the backbone chassis updating the running gear and brakes and fitting alfa engines, most of which were all done on a deon car (the black gts). Another car was half built again a modified deon body chassis but with a new bonnet moulding which quite honestly was very poor. I don't know of an actual ground up cr car on the road.
I really don't know why this replica has a bad cloud following it.Such a beautiful car too. Jhclassic's started it,deon followed on in the same way and now classic replicas is carrying on the tradition. I know a guy with a jhc car and I have a deon!!! Maybe dehavilland will break the moulds