[lnfletcher]

What's more impressive, owning an old collector car that is worth so much you can't drive it, or a car that you built from ground up, every nut and bolt, screw and tack!
I'm proud to call it a replica built from a kit.
It usually starts a conversation like, what came in the kit? What frame did you use? Did you paint it? etc....
Most people leave more impressed that you built it than just owning a collector car.
You betcha it's real, just not real old! (I think someone else said that!)

Then if they still act like it's nothing, I offer to give them a ride and scare the %#@$ out of them!