What part of "Clone" of "Faux" i.e.-"Fake" are you not grasping?

I talk to so many people who want to build clones of ultra-cool cars, who gripe that it will be too hard or expensive to do. The way their thinking-yes it would be. I'll explain. One guy wanted to do a 427 Cobra Replica. I suggested the Factory Five kits which come complete with everything but the engine and tranny for like $19,995. You can have the frame drilled to accept a small-block Chevy, a small-block Ford, or a 4.6 / 5.4 Ford mod motor at no extra charge. I suggested the easiest way would be find a rough but running '83-'95 "5.0" Mustang and get the engine and 5-speed trans. Or call Summitt and get a 345 hp 302 Ford SVT crate engine and Tremec 5-speed. For under 25K he'd have a kickass Cobra to play with. Since they only weigh about 2,300 lbs-even with a stock "5.0" powertrain they run 12s in the 1/4!  No this guy wanted it close to "real" as possible. I told him the chance of finding a side-oiler 427 Ford for sale at any price would be chasing a moon rock. However all "FE" engines are externally identical and 390s were used in almost every Ford model from 1961-76. With some aluminum Edelbrock Heads and a dual-quad intake, he'd have the look, the sound and the feel. "But it wouldn't be correct". he sneered. I almost got coffee up my nose laughing. "Nothing about the car is correct." I said. "It's a replica!!" "A tribute". "You don't understand." He's right. I don't. Crazy guy # 2. wanted to clone a Yenko Camaro. Easy enough-find a '67-69 Camaro, Phoenix Graphics sells the emblems and stripes / stencils. Harwood sells the hood scoop. Go to a junkyard and get a 454 out of an '80's truck, and rebuild it. A TH400 or Muncie 4-speed is easy enough to find if you scour the want ads or swap meets. No he wants a for-real 427. "Fine". I said-"GMPP, Eagle, Lunati and other companies sell 3.76 stroke big-block Chevy crank, rod and piston kits." Get an internally balanced flywheel / flexplate and damper ( If you don't know 396 /402 /427s are internally balanced and 454s are externally balanced ) and voila'-instant 427. No he wants a 427 with 1967,68 or '69 date codes. Good luck with that-as "Vette restorers hog them with ferocity and want blood and a first-born child when they do sell one. Then he starts griping about not being able to find a date-correct 12 bolt posi rear end!!  Are you kidding me?  Again-I said "It's not a numbers-matching Yenko!!"  "The 10-bolt that's in the car will do fine." "In 40+ years of hot-rodding GM cars I've never broken a 10-bolt, although I know people who have." "If your going to build a killer motor and really lean on it with slicks or drag radials-Currie sells 9 inch Ford rears with GM mounting points already installed." "Or Moser sells brand-new 12 bolts if you want to keep it all GM". I showed him pictures of a friend's triple-white 1971 GTO "Judge" convertible. It's actually a LeMans Sport convertible with the "Endura" ( read GTO front bumper and scooped hood ). He added a hood tach, the "Judge" stripes and spoiler and a set of "Honeycomb" wheels. Everywhere he goes people "ooh" and "aah" over this "Judge" drop-top. The 400 / TH400 powertrain moves it down the road nicely. Mr. Would-be Yenko cloner turned up his nose. "Piece of crap". he sneered. "No." I said " It's a really cool car built for a fraction of what one of the 17 for-real '71 Judge convertibles would go for." "It's built for a fraction of what your trying to do." "All 357 '71 Judge models had 455HO engines." Where would he find a complete, running 1971 date-coded 455HO 47 years later, and for what price?" "And if he did by some miracle-the car is still a gussied-up LeMans!!!"  Who cares if it's "Correct??!!"  A Mopar guy was absolutely aghast when I suggested a 360 for his proposed Challenger T/A clone. "It has to be a 340!" When I pointed out that 340s were only used from 1968-73 and are pretty rare and usually expensive, while 360s were used in virtually every Chrysler model and Dodge trucks from 1971-1991, and are fairly cheap, he wailed the mantra-"It wouldn't be correct". When I suggested a 360 Magnum-based 408 stroker to make it really badass-he got really pissed. "Edelbrock doesn't make a Six-Pack manifold for "Magnum" heads!! When I pointed out that a 408 inch Magnum V8 with a Performer RPM intake, 800 cfm Thunder AVS carb, and matching cam would suck up and spit out a "real" 340 Six-Pack in a drag race, I got a cloud of obsenities that the kid in Christmas Story would marvel at.  I just don't get it. The car's a fake!!  If you want a  '68 Hemi Charger-and have the cash to lay out 15 grand for a Mopar Performance 426 crate Hemi and another 25-30 for a decent 383 Charger to stuff it in, more power to you!!!  45 grand is a lot less than the 100K plus that "real" ones bring. I get that. And I'd put a Tremec 5-speed behind that crate Hemi, rather than chase a 1968 date-coded A883 4-speed!!  Does this drive anyone else bonkers?  Mastermind