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Original or Repro? http://www.ebay.com/itm/160896828279I know there are unmarked reproductions out there.
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Dave GILL,
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agree.. 
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OK, but why? The reason I ask, is I picked one up years ago and the lenses are heavy and the globe body is like I have never seen before. All swirled in the plastic. I will have to take a picture.
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A seller could have placed repro lenses in an original CAPCO body to try and make the globe more "correct" feeling to fool an unsuspecting buyer. I admit I do not know 100% how to tell the original "car mfr" globes from the repros, but a couple of things I would question are A) were the originals even made for CAPCO bodies? and B) what sizes were the original lenses produced in? I personally do not have any interest in the car globes, but those are the things I would question if I seen one to buy and resell.
Biggest thing to help make a determination on yours is to post pics of the back of the lenses especially. Heavy thicker lenses, while not a 100% certainty, is a sign of lenses made for a glass body usually. It can get tricky to put a set of thick ones in a CAPCO sometimes due to the thickness. Showing the back of the lenses could make an immediate determination. The frit on older lenses is pretty easy to spot originals, as well as modern lens production methods are easy to spot to globe collectors.
Hope I've helped a little,
Darin
Darin Sheffer
Always looking for Mobil and Marathon items I don't already have!
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I will have to try to take pictures of the back of the lenses in the body. I hate to take it apart. Never have. The frit makes sense. I have never bin a big collector of globes. Even though I have 40 or so. I just bought what i liked.
Thanks.
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Hi guys just to make things clear on these car globes they were first made in about 1976 and are ALL single strength glass. Notches may be deep or shallow. I just spoke with Chuck Pergl who made all these globes, to confirm what I remembered, whom I have know for almost 40 years. None of these are dated or marked in any way and it was never his intention to fool anyone. All his other repro globes are clearly marked. There are known Oldsmobile globes on glass, Plymouth globes on metal, and some older car globes in one piece versions. I have never seen any other car globe that was original though I believe some may exist. The Buick globe here is a new one on an older capco frame as someone pointed out. Scott Benjamin
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