Best response to, "Is that an original?"

[Mike Brasfield]

I like your idea Tony. I try that at each car show and I know it makes a future motorhead that will remember when he sat in a Cobra when he was a kid.

I personally never get bent out of shape with the question. Just answer, "it's a hand crafted replica that beat the original in a head-to-head match recently". They usually ask the 2nd question, "did you build it". Yes I say. Cool they say.