I just read most all this thread. I gotta say it was very interesting...right up until the insults and other childish bullshit started.
One question...Is the OP's pic in post #1 the car being updated by bdasv6?
My other observation is this...the guys who insist on throwing out insults and bullshit need to just go away.
When Rick Hunt...X-RAY told the story...it was obvious that it was a "non registered GNX". Sorry but if it went down the line...recieved the items...and was assembled by the same hands...it is as authentic as the others, but was without papers. So be it. A "CLONE" is built by someone other then the original builder/builders. If it is not a real GM authorized build...it is a real ACS build...and there is no way to say it is not. The paperwork is the only thing missing.
If I have a Mustang built at Carroll Shelby's shop, by Carroll Shelby's workers, using Carroll Shelby's parts, but NOT with FORDS blessing...is it not a Shelby? Now if I took a Mustang and built it in MY garage, using parts off of a different car, and assembled by my friends...and it looks EXACTLY correct...sorry but its a CLONE.
You can bitch and rant and rave all you want , but this car is non-registered or non-commissioned at best...BUT it is "real". Those GNX parts are REAL. They are not repops, they were never put on a commissioned GNX and removed, and they were assembled in the Holy Church of GNX's....argue all you want.
It is NOT a CLONE. It may not be counted, but its NOT fake.
If the GNX registry or a hundred GNX owners were posting on your side...then we all may take a different point of view, but my opinion is to just be glad that someone is keeping all these items together and not parting them out. To have all the items still on the same car means much more then seeing a piece here and a piece there...especially since it really has a back story... seconded from the most credible GNX source this forum has.
This will be debated for the entire life of this car...but I'm glad its still around to be debated.