The seller said he does not think it is the real deal because the rear rivet doesn't look right to him. The buy it now price was 15 dollars and he said good luck to the buyer. So he was as honest as he could have been. No fault there.
I looked at the picture and because of the lighting and picture quality I saw a metallic blue superfast. Of course I thought it can't be genuine because, as we know, metallic blue Lincoln Superfasts come up for sale as often as pure bred unicorns. I bought it anyway because why not, and I was perfectly settled on getting a decent custom of: a metallic blue Lincoln Superfast.
What came in the mail was not a metallic blue but a mint green superfast. Immediately my reaction was "hang the flippin' heck on there!". So I examined the rivet in question, the one that "didn't look right". We are talking about the rear rivet here and I could see what the seller meant.
It has a circular scratch around the rivet hole which normally indicates a custom and calls for caution. On top of that the rivet doesn't seem to sit entirely straight in the hole and caused a minute dent in the base.
My problem was that the front rivet looked absolutely fine and genuine so how could a base swap and custom have happened?
I picked up my regular wheels metallic blue Lincoln which I know is original in all parts from factory and checked the rear rivet to find - circular scratching and residue around the rivet hole.
My reasoning: since the metallic blue regular wheels has those scratches and is in fact original, I believe that during the conversion process to superfast and possibly as a side effect of the riveting machine that issue was carried over.
The paint on the car is matching the paint on the rivet and as I said, there is nothing at all wrong with the front rivet of the superfast copy. Again, since the original regular wheels and the suspected custom superfast have those scratches, my very strong conclusion is that the mint green superfast is original.
