Ford GT Wire wheels

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Pierkemimi wrote:
Lesney 61 wrote:Ik heb hem gekocht van iemand die hem al eens heeft na laten kijken, maar hij kon hem niet als echt verkopen omdat niemand het gelooft. Ik heb hem aan verschillende mensen laten zien, waaronder Maarten Faassen en die zeggen allemaal dat deze echt is.
Geef eens de naam van de verkoper. Vraag ook eens zijn naam op ebay.
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Henk has sent additional photographs via WhatsAp to my wife. I'm waiting for her to forward them so that I can post them here.
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Idris wrote:
Pierkemimi wrote:
Lesney 61 wrote:Ik heb hem gekocht van iemand die hem al eens heeft na laten kijken, maar hij kon hem niet als echt verkopen omdat niemand het gelooft. Ik heb hem aan verschillende mensen laten zien, waaronder Maarten Faassen en die zeggen allemaal dat deze echt is.
Geef eens de naam van de verkoper. Vraag ook eens zijn naam op ebay.
Although posting in a European language is allowed, please ensure that any such post is accompanied by a rough translation into English (Putting the text through Google Translate would be fine.)
Terwijl berichten in een europaise taal wel toegestaan zijn, gaarne ervoor te zorgen dat zulke berichten van een grofe engelse vertaling voorzien zijn (b.v. Google Tanslate is prima)
Name of the seller, name on ebay too. Please.
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Lesney 61 wrote:Ik heb hem gekocht van iemand die hem al eens heeft na laten kijken, maar hij kon hem niet als echt verkopen omdat niemand het gelooft. Ik heb hem aan verschillende mensen laten zien, waaronder Maarten Faassen en die zeggen allemaal dat deze echt is.

Henk indeed showed the model in hand.
But I have to correct above sentence: I didn't explicitely say it is a genuine model, but I only gave it the benefit of the doubt for I couldn't see any irregularity on wheels or axles, not even with a magnifying glass.

I know Henk well, he too is very cautious regarding fake models, so I'm convinced he did all research possible on this model.
Nevertheless these very rare models ant be judged enough.

To my opinion it did not come directly from mentioned notorious seller, the seller's name was another (but I can't remember it).
But you never know, he has at least 14 aliases on Marktplaats (as far as I have registred in the past two years) and some models wander from one to another and all tracking gets lost...

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No way you can tell from pictures.
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The damage to the paint is not as we are used to from our notorious seller, the chips on his fake models mostly are 'polished' and shiny.
On this model you see the dull grey of the bare metal.

I suggested Henk to check whether the rivets are strongly fixed or let loose a bit to see if they're factory fixed or glued.

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The rivets are strong and they are the same as the other GT that i have
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Lesney 61 wrote:The rivets are strong and they are the same as the other GT that i have
There would be no need to take the base off to change the wheels. Wire wheels would make this a prepro, before the red-wheeled examples. I think it's worth looking very carefully to see if there are any casting differences.
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