Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > LEGAL HELP!!-MINICHAMPS test bike

[Twinfan]

They have only removed yours from eBay because of the 'uncertainty' about the model. If it was a Hodgson 2000 in a Hodgson 2000 box there would be no problem.

Let me know how you get on - I'm fascinated

[Ducnow]

WTF!!!

This is crazy
Maybe Bin Laden is selling Minichamps to raise founds for terrorism....

[Nattyboy]

Jasper...was round my mates for a barbie on Monday, who is a huge collector of minichamps.

Hes 99% sure its a bitsa as apparently you can get spares and decal kits....??

Nat

[Edited on 3-5-2005 by Nattyboy]

[Edited on 3-5-2005 by Nattyboy]

[Twinfan]

Interesting...

[Jasper]

You can?Are you sure?Look at it this way,if you could get spares and decals,i would just get a 996 and get a Bayliss 2000 bodywork set.Same with a Corser 1999,people would just get a Foggy 99(quite easy) and put Corsers bodywork on it.Saving £450-£500.Also,if you could get the decals,why would Minichamps get so upset and secretive?They would just say "someones bought a set of 1999 decals and put them on a bike,this is not an original".Instead they have refused to comment so far.Sorry,Nat,ithink there is more to it than that.I may yet be proven wrong-it won't be the first time!!!

[Twinfan]

Any contact form them today Jasper?

[Jasper]

No mate.I did ring them at lunch time,but they were at lunch-TYPICAL!!

[Twinfan]

Not entirely sure I agree with you about the bitsa theory, Jasper. You could re-badge your 1999 Foggy as a Corser, but you wouldn't have the box. I'd be very wary about paying for a 1999 Corser without a box, given the prevalence of 1999 Foggys and the fact that you'd only have to change a couple of decals.

Maybe your bike was originally a 2000 Hodgson (hence the box) and somewhere along the line it's been treated to strip and rebuild with Foggy decals and custom paint. Quite why, who knows???

[Jasper]

But at the end of the day you would have a bike in the colour scheme you wanted.I kno what you are saying about the boxes,but i want the bikes not the boxes!Also(i know this sounds piccy!) but the Hodgsons come with BLACK paddock stands,not red),plus they have AP racing brakes,not Brembo.Trust me,if someone has made this model,it is PERFECT!!

[deej]

you can get the declas set made up professionally but im not sure about the rest of it, like you say japser theres a difference between the spec of the bikes and the stands are different. i'd have a bet at it being a employee with a over imaginative imagination who got bored at work and played around with the paint and graphics

getting more and more interesting by the day i must add