>If you were able to get, say, the original manifold dyes and smelt your
>own manifolds that are basically the same as the original, are they truly
>original?
No, I don't feel that they are. I would still call them
reproductions. The time-frame has as much to do with it as any other
aspect. Your part might be perfect in every detail, but it wasn't
manufactured in the same time period as the original. Plus in the
example stated above, it isn't even the same manufacturer. Is a
Mark-8, assmembled from era-parts 30 years after the builder's
article still an original Mark-8?
Jeff
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