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to clone or not to clone

to clone or not to clone


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Do whatever YOU want. If you want to make it look like a super bee do it.. if you like R/T emblems , toss some on there.. I would...

my buddy has a 70 coronet 440 built 383 auto . with the bulge hood, tail stripe, buckets, floor shift. But refuses to take the coronet 440 off the fenders. I keep trying to talk him into putting super bee emblems on it. He won't do it...

My 68 318 charger will have a 440, 4 speed and R/T emblems....
I am going for the bullitt charger look.....
 
hi Bear R.-here again.i've been thinkin about your cone or not clone.personally i would leave it alone not clone.its pretty rare .just put back to orig.as best as you can,God Bless Barry
 
well i have made up my mind i am gonna drop the body on a 4x4 frame and turn it into a mudder lol
j/k i have thought about it alot and i have all the 440 embloms for it
and i dont have extra cash to buy anything besides what is gonna help the the car
i am gonna keep it a 440 it wont be a stock 440 by any means thanxs for all the advice
but the coronet 440 wins
 
Imagine it's 1968, and you're standing in a Dodge dealership looking at a 440, a Super Bee, and an R/T. Which would you buy? Let that decision guide the one you're making now. Pick the one you would be willing to put money on in 1968 to determine which to put your money on now.

Super Bee, hands down.
 
i have a 67 coronet 440 that im keeping a 440 but im making it my own i like the 383 four barrel emblem from the 70's cars. some im going with some of the hood emblems on the grill and some other little things from other years as well i was thinking it would be a little different be still classy lol
 
i have a 68 440 also with 318, when i got it all the parts came with it to clone it into a bee, i like it, it will always be a coronet 440 car but it looks cool in bee trim
 
I voted to leave it a 440, but I'm biased. My first owned car was a '69 Coronet 440. Nothin' but good memories. If I ever have the luck to find that car again I would definitely restore it and keep it the original 440 model.
 
Well I didn't get through all the posts and maybe this was already suggested but you could even have all the super bee optons on it and get a special sticker for it like the "rumble bee" or make up some name you like, not cloning but very unique. I know I know, some are going to say "STUPID" but what the hell......
But whatever you do with it its still a very cool mopar!!
 
Most answers above point to clone but add the phrase "just don't try to pass it off as real". So I gotta ask:

At what point do you reveal that it's a clone? Is it okay to put the sticker on it? Is it okay to put the metal GTX badge on a Satellite? Is it okay to just show the car and leave it alone until someone walks up and asks "Is it real?" Obviously when trying to sell the car you MUST reveal what the car really is - but when you all say "don't pass it off" isn't that what we do when we clone another model?

FWIW: I'm in the "cloning" camp. Just wondering what kind of flack I'm going to get when I tell people at the shows "Thanks, but it's not a 'real' ***"

It's easy. My wife's Challenger license plate reads
FAKE RT
 
I figure if they werent meant to be cloned they should have given them different body styles. Instead they slapped on different badging and stripes and called it something else. So the "clones" are actually "clones" of the orginals with a different name.
 
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