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Byline: Bob Gritzinger
The FIA (Federation Internationale de l'Automobile), best known as the Paris-based world motorsports sanctioning body, hopes to clear the air on cloned collector cars by implementing new rules governing historic or special cars and re-creations of those cars.
Under rules effective in 2007, the FIA (which also operates as a global auto club of sorts) will issue either a Heritage Certificate (HC) or a Historic Technical Passport (HTP) to a vehicle that meets specific qualifications for the Certificate, Passport, or in rare cases both.
To obtain a Heritage Certificate, an owner must detail the precise history of the car, which will be verified by an inspection and by an investigation of the car's history. A car need not be original in every respect to earn the HC, but the Certificate will note significant changes.
"We consider that a car can `live its life'-if an owner decides to change the wheels or bodywork, it is not our concern,'' notes FIA ...
Source: HighBeam Research, CLEANING UP THE CLONES.(News)