[77 Canamman]

Originally Posted by Ccass

Your opinion is welcome here. That's why we have these forums. However, 'inferior' and 'BY FAR' are your opinions that are not shared by many nor myself who has spent the last 30 years making reproductions. Everyone has a different level of tolerance of what to expect in a reproduction. Bottom line is yours appears to be quite low. ;)

Anyway, for all reading...…. just be on guard, if you haven't noticed already, quite a few reproductions are starting to get discontinued. It's due to not being able to produce the item profitably. Profitably is a direct correlation to quantity.

I would never promote the acceptance of junk. However, it has been literally 30 years of reproductions and 30 years of some owners complaining about the difference between a reproduction and the original. It's about time to accept that most reproductions are 'different' than originals. It's not about better or worse. It's more about being 'different'. If we all can't accept that, your future choices are going to be NOS, used or nothing!

It was extremely difficult and expensive to retool this new collar and it was difficult to retool and improve the Formula wheel several times over the years. When someone gives a derogatory review of an item not knowing all that goes on behind the scenes, it causes other car owners to maybe steer clear and it causes companies like us to lose heart in our efforts to support the Pontiac hobby.

Again, you have a hard time taking any criticism of your products. Same goes for my glowing review of the Pypes crossflow system. Not once did I say that ALL repros are inferior or trash. I bought your wheel, and the wheel from your competitor. Both sucked in terms of durability as compared to GM. Yours was closer in appearance to original. Both hit the trash can after they bent, and a expensive mint original was purchased, which has not bent. Several hundred dollars was wasted...

Bottom line, if your product was closer to the standards of the original, there would be zero or fewer derogatory reviews of your parts. It's quite simple, really.