simply yes, as one fo us has already said if there is a buck to be made then yep, regardless of make or model, if they can upsell a car to a rare model using a base model then yep

What i have done is buy a base model and rebuilt it, cost the same to restore but is rarer then the much sort after hot model, oh were talking minis here, i built a base model rather then ANOTHER FAKE Cooper S

as for sandys hell yeah there is and will always will be fakes, AGAIN some folk buy them not knowing there fake also, again over 40 years some folk get side tracked and not know the facts like so many of us, to them it could be just a car and be honest