[tristan]

You're entitled to your opinion but mine is that he is doing many of us a major favor. Finding the originals requires scouring swap meets, EBay, Craigslist and other venues, a time investment I and others can't or won't make. When originals come up it costs nearly as much to ship them as it does to buy them, and if you aren't the first person to see the ad then you don't get the chance to buy them anyway. Erik's repros are of high quality and don't arrive needing extra-cost refinishing to make them usable. Hickey, both the man and the company, has been dead and gone for a long time so it's not like the repros are stealing bread from someone's mouth. I have some original HE stuff on my truck and am glad to have it, but I think Erik is performing a real public service for the rest of us. And all of the HE stuff, original or not, is just so awesomely cool!