SeanDezart
Well-Known Forum User
Why has it got hatch grills AND rear wing Z badges ?
Why has it got hatch grills AND rear wing Z badges ?
Why has it got hatch grills AND rear wing Z badges ?
What I don't understand is if it is a recreation/copy/built in the spirit of why they don't just say? Someone has obviously gone to some extreme lengths to make it look right(ish) and it looks very nicely put together.
There's no patina. If you start out with a genuine 432R that needs restoration, you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
There's scope for many different scenarios here. The current ( Thai ) owner is not the original owner, and not the original builder - so it's hard to know whether he know's what's correct and what's not, or even whether he knows what the car left the factory as.
The other scenarios are that a car can start out as one thing, and get 'upgraded' to another factory spec by adding parts to it ( happens all the time with people adding ZG-specific parts to non-ZG models ) and these can sometimes fool people. There's also the scenario of fakery, and this is easier when the models involved share chassis prefixes and body serial number sequences ( 'HS30' prefixed Fairlady 240Z-Ls becoming Fairlady 240ZGs, and 'PS30' prefixed Fairlady Z432s becoming Fairlady Z432-Rs ). However, these should be apparent to those who really know their onions.
Cars can be built as honest 'tribute' cars, or replicas ( like my own loosely-termed 432R replica project ) but then be claimed as 'The Real Thing' by subsequent owners. Again, it should not fool those who really know their onions, and a true factory-build 432-R bodyshell is completely different to that of a factory-build 432, so a close up examination would probably show the difference, as opposed to trying to spot it from pictures.
You wouldn't be able to fool proper Ferrari historians into believing that a Favre recreation '250 GTO' based on a 250 GTE was 'The Real Thing', but you might fool plenty of people at your local petrol station......
Biggest points I could make about this car in Thailand and the Takeey's car are that they are being claimed as genuine 432Rs by the 7Tune writer, but show great evidence of 'personalisation' by builder / owner. The stripped and cleanly body colour painted floors, tunnel, roof interior and rear hatch areas are nothing like the factory 432Rs were, and a lot of the details look quite cheesey. Too much looks new, too much looks replicated rather than original. There's no patina. If you start out with a genuine 432R that needs restoration, you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
that article was written by Adam Zillin, owner of 7Tune
He's not going to care what input or correction you guys have to make.
He talks his way into doing a lot of cool stuff, but most of the time doesn't have a clue.
I know this cause I've had a discussion with him about other matters in the past and he just comes across very arrogant.
He's just a fan, you guy are experts