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Have seen these on Ebay, are they any good??
It was interesting to watch when they first appeared, buyers went nuts over them and set a price which they now appear for as 'buy it now'. If the buyers were smart, they would have ignored them, because if someone is selling one repro set, then you can bet he'll have more.
All you did was give him an idea of what you'd pay.
They are just pieces of plastic and don't require significant tooling to make and a lot of desperate people got suckered. |
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Actually the molds to make plastic pieces that size are quite expensive to produce. Years ago before they were doing the repo tail lights i approached a plastics company to make me the plastic tail light surround for the XB coupes. They wanted $3500 jus
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Yeah, you would'nt get these done by a business, they will surely screw you.
I actually tossed up about making these myself, possibly in white metal (same stuff as badges) so that the pins on the back would last forever. If you are smart, and do some r
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