Why would someone do this?

[Mr Red Barron]

I'm trying to get my head round this.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2207959.htm

Why would the owner go through all the trouble of turning this genuine Tyrell F1 car into a fake Ferrari one? On the 6th picture you can see he's even supplied some ferrari build plates into it? I'm pretty sure the Tyrell from that year didn't even have a Ferrari engine. It just begs the question why??

[VladD]

The only thing I can think of is that from a marketing/PR perspective the Ferrari name is more recognisable to the general public than Tyrell.

[kambites]

VladD said:

The only thing I can think of is that from a marketing/PR perspective the Ferrari name is more recognisable to the general public than Tyrell.

I would imagine so, yes.

[Mr Red Barron]

But when it comes to explaining about the car what would he actually say?

'And here we have a genuine Ferrari F1 car from the 83.....no wait...84 season, yes thats it, and it is the F84-2. driven by.....um'



Why hide the fact that this is a genuine F1 car with proper F1 history?

[mybrainhurts]

Cash only pleases thankyou

[andygo]

I liked the 'Check this car with HPI' advert adjacent to the cars addy..