Fake muscle cars infiltrating classic car market

The growing popularity of late 1960s early 1970s muscle cars on the collector car market has spawned something evil. Bootleggers. I guess they’re not really bootleggers, but people are taking less popular models and adding badging, engines and other items to pass them off as their more muscle-bound brethren. That means the GTO you just bought might actually be a Pontiac Lemans. Scary thought isn’t it?

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The growing popularity of late 1960s early 1970s muscle cars on the collector car market has spawned something evil.
Bootleggers. I guess they’re not really bootleggers, but people are taking less popular models and adding badging,
engines and other items to pass them off as their more muscle-bound brethren. That means the GTO you just bought might
actually be a Pontiac Lemans. Scary thought isn’t it?