More on "Cloning".....

Taking a six-cylinder, 3-speed Camaro, and installing a mild 350, a 4-speed, and adding a cowl induction hood, rally stripes and Z/28 emblems isn't a sin as long as you don't try to pass it off as the real deal. If you buy a '70 Mustang and put Edelbrock or Trick Flow "Clevor" heads and intake on the 302 to make a "Boss 302" replica engine, you haven't hurt anyone or compromised the value of the car. ( How much is a 302 2bbl Sportsroof worth anyway? The bodys good if your cloning a Boss or swapping in a 428, otherwise not much ). If you buy a '69 LeMans and put a GTO front end on it, paint it like a Judge, and put Edelbrock Performer RPM Heads and cam ( They are patterned exactly after the factory RAIV stuff ) on a 400 and have a blast driving it, you haven't committed a crime. Unless you try to sell it as a real Judge to some unsuspecting fool with more money than brains. Any sharp Pontiac enthusiast would spot a fake a mile away. The point is, you can have the look and feel of an ultra-rare car at a fraction of the price as long as you don't care about serial numbers. A Mopar Performance 426 crate Hemi costs 15 grand, and you'll proabably have to pay at least 15 or 20 grand for a decent 383 Road Runner. Assuming you can do the engine swap yourself, now you've got a Hemi Road Runner for around 35-40 grand. Not Cheap, but that's a lot less than the 100K on up that "Original" Hemi cars are bringing, even in this recession. That's the beauty of the old musclecars-they were all based on a lesser model, so there's plenty of raw material out there. Now that GMPP is selling 427 crate engines, you could even build a Yenko clone or a Baldwin-Motion clone out of a base Camaro. As prices on the rare birds rise higher and higher, this might be the only way some of us can enjoy the car of our dreams. When you blast up to 5,500 rpm up an on-ramp, you won't be thinking about serial numbers. Mastermind