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Another Shelby-Licensed Something-Or-Other Sells For $330,000
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Re: Another Shelby-Licensed Something-Or-Other Sells For $330,000
Another fake movie Eleanor looking thing with an overblown price tag. Probably sold to a shill to puff up the artificial collector value of the ones they plan on building next. Nice to see an FE in there at least - although I just shipped one to Hawaii that was within 10 horsepower of that without the blower. About two hundred G in profit there...
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Re: Another Shelby-Licensed Something-Or-Other Sells For $330,000
"We're going to start building continuation Shelby Dodge Omnis!"
What? You couldn't find any Lancers? ;D( http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/capsule-review-1987-dodge-shelby-lancer/)
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Re: Another Shelby-Licensed Something-Or-Other Sells For $330,000
Originally posted by SpiderGearsMananti rejection drugs are big coin
TOP ELEVEN REASONS WHY SHELBY LICENSES CONTINUATION CARS
11. Nobody willing to pay "Barrett-Jackson money" for limited-edition Shelby's Chili mix.
10. Makes sure that Shelby's Oldsmobile Aurora-powered Series One becomes more "muy exclusivo."
9. Alan Mulally's crew is not finished yet with the top-secret "Shelby Fiesta Con Carne."
8. Still paying the bills for a huge party down at Terlinqua Ranch.
7. Fun to do something else that Steve Saleen and Jack Roush can't.
6. Trying to make everyone forget the Shelby Dodges.
5. "Carroll Shelby's Pit-Stop... a Real Man's Deodorant" . . . was not the next Old Spice.
4. It's something that's even more fun and profitable than lawsuits.
3. Team Shelby members need something to tow their Donzi Shelby 22 GT Speedboats with (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZocYx6c6QI4&feature=fvw) . . .
2. . . . and drive when the weather is too bad for their Shelby motorcycles. (http://www.theshelbymotorcycle.com/)
1. "His genius is the stuff of folklore . . . ." http://www.shelbylicensing.com/
(Just ask Superformance, Factory Five, ERA, Backdraft Racing, Shell Valley Companies, Kirkham Motorsports, Hurricane, Shamrock Autokraft, West Coast Cobra, Lone Star Classics, Elegant Motors, Venom Cars, Unique Motorcars, JCF/John's Custom Fabrication, B&B Manufacturing, Emerson Motorsports . . . .)
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Re: Another Shelby-Licensed Something-Or-Other Sells For $330,000
Originally posted by Speedzzter.blogspot1. "His genius is the stuff of folklore . . . ." http://www.shelbylicensing.com/
(Just ask Superformance, Factory Five, ERA, Backdraft Racing, Shell Valley Companies, Kirkham Motorsports, Hurricane, Shamrock Autokraft, West Coast Cobra, Lone Star Classics, Elegant Motors, Venom Cars, Unique Motorcars, JCF/John's Custom Fabrication, B&B Manufacturing, Emerson Motorsports . . . .)
the products from these outfits are night and day.. when you see one before the "cobra"suits and after..
it only helped (forced) them to build a better kit..
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Re: Another Shelby-Licensed Something-Or-Other Sells For $330,000
The point of the joke was probably too subtle.
If Shelby was as much of a "genius" as his own p.r. suggests, he'd have figured out that there was a ripe market for "kit car" Cobras long before all of the "cobra suits."
The knock-off Cobra industry developed because "Mr. Folklore" punted in the 1970s and 1980s. Only when the profits became too large to ignore did Shelby "get back in the game."
For all of the bluster about Shelby's "legend," he packed it in when motorsports needed him the most. He basically took off the 1970s, wasting the decade on safaris and chili cookoffs.
What a "genius" of such notoriety would (or should) have been doing back then is leading the "power-to-weight" rebellion against government-neutered motoring. Shelby, better than most celebrity non-engineers of that time, seemingly understood that fewer than seven pounds for every horsepower is the secret to legendary performance. As long as a vehicle's weight is low enough to hit the magic 7:1 ratio, the amount of power (or how "de-smogged" it must be) is mostly secondary.
We all know that Shelby didn't rise to the challenge of regulated motoring back then. Instead he quit motorsports, even before his corporate benefactors at Ford did.
Moreover, he apparently didn't "monetize" the Shelby brand as well as other '60s performance legends did in the 1970s and early 1980s (Mickey Thompson immediately comes to mind). In fact, had Lee Iacocca not asked Shelby to return to the automotive scene as a budget means to "polish" the awful, weak-performing FWD Dodges of the mid 1980s, who knows if Shelby would have ever made a "come back" as a force in motoring.
Perhaps I'm the only one, but I see all those lost opportunities as material "knocks" on claims of his automotive "genius."
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