Mopar Shirts

Back in the 90's, I was into Corvettes (Forgive me). I had some shirts made up with the picture of a Corvette that I tried selling at a large swap meet.

Long story short: A representative from GM stopped and told me that unless the shirts were licensed by GM, they could sue me, and strongly suggested that I either get licensed, or immediately stop selling them. He was nice about it, but I knew he was serious. We chatted for a while, and he explained that many people make the same mistake simply because they dont know better. He had a full time job just going to swap meets around the country and protecting GM property. Companies jealously guard anything they consider their intellectual property, and will not hesitate to act.

I dont think it makes a difference whether you are making money on them or not. Kind of like those disclaimers at the beginning of movies, that state that you can be prosecuted and fined $500k if you distribute copies without permission even though no profit is involved.

You might be OK if you use a drawing/sketch, that doesnt look exactly like an A-Body, and you dont put a company logo or model name on it like "Dart", "Cuda", etc.

Just my 2cents.