Clones or Replicas

Here's what bothers me about phonies:

My 1989 Turbo T/A is a real pace car, here's why; It was chosen by Indy from the 1550 identical cars. The only differences are Indy required safety equipent (which I installed). In actuality, my car could pace an Indy race today. I don't claim it's the actual pace car, but when people ask if it's a real pace car I say YES. The decals were optional for the owner to apply at their descretion and came with the car.

With all this in mind would you consider it real?....