Car Number Collisions
We now have eight E-Types that between them only have four car numbers! In all four cases, there appears to be one legitimate contender and one pretender. However, outside of a lawsuit, there’s no way to really determine the answer to the question of authenticity. And the stakes are pretty high–I have heard in many European countries (and all four cases involve cars where one is in Europe and the other is in the States) having a car with a “faked” number might lead to it being crushed, without recompense. That may even be the case here in the states.
Frankly, I didn’t think anyone would go to this extent to “legitimize” their cars…plenty of craptacular project cars exist (even today) for modest amounts of money, an easy source of a “legitimate” car number and legal paperwork.
It presents a problem for us, as in how do we present such machines on the site? I really don’t need the owner of a car we label as the “pretender” pointing their lawyer guns this way. There are practical problems as well from a data managing perspective, but they pale before the legal aspects.
