> The UK is full of small companies making and repairing all kinds of past > products. > > For example the MGB GT (a much loved British sports car). The factory > stopped making them in the early 1980's > However a few guys bought the press tools and have been turning out two > or three body shells a day ever since. > > Copy of a Shelby Cobra - no problem build from a kit. GT40 clone oh yes!
Be careful... On this list a GT40 comes from DEC and not Ford :-) But as I understand it, those reproduction cars have reproduced bodywork on top of modern mechnanicals. The engine, for example, is not a copy of the original, it's a current-production car engine, complete with electronic engine management and thus without the reason I would want a classic car in the first place! It's like a lot of the reproduction computers discussed here and elsewhere. They look the same, the run the same programs, but no way _are_ they the same. An RPi (or Beaglebone, or...) running an emulator is not a PDP11/70. And as a hardware hacker, a machine I can't stick my logic analyser on is of little interest -tony
