Yep we all know that Cliff and it’s a totally different subject.
To be totally clear (I think I always have been clear but eh…
) I’m just talking about those cars built 25 years later no doubt with the aid of the chassis numbers listed in Brownings book to apply for a logbook for a car you don’t actually own (possibly owned by someone else - and that has happened) Not just rally cars of course it’s been done with racing cars aswell. I’m not referring to anything else, not reshells, not restorations, not numberplate swaps in period yadda yadda yadda but invariably the smoke screen that usually gets put up is “well the works swapped number plates about” .
Please don’t confuse the two, a car built by Comps that left the gates of Abingdon into private ownership is a works car no matter what the number plate said (if it actually had one). A car built by Joe Bloggs in 1992 by fraudulently applying for a works logbook to stick on his rally Mini definitely ISN’T and plenty of people did exactly that who have been peddling bullshit about what they created and try and shut down conversation about it ever since.
That’s it in a nutshell Cliff. I totally respect and admire the whole BMC Comps story and the amazing effort, skill and knowledge put into rebuilding those cars (anyone who thinks different clearly doesn’t know me at all) but the bullshit that’s been going on for decades I can’t swallow and dont forget the owners of genuine survivors who’ve had to fight tooth and nail to get their number plates back from the scam cars, often with zero help from the very people who are supposedly there to help, some even involved in fraud cars themselves! You couldn’t make it up.
