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Originally Posted by REAL 1
Gee Ron, you again conveniently left off the balance of what ... blah, blah, blah...
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Evan...I know you too well to continue a semantic argument beyond the first two rounds... as stated, you just don't get it.
One more time, and I'll let the discussion continue without me.
1. Original Cobras were built from 1962-1968.
2. When the general populace asks if a Cobra is "real," most every rational person in the hobby knows full well what they are asking.
3. You choose to delude them with your "clinical" explanation....for the sole purpose of what? Educating them? Making them feel good? Making you feel good?
Don't care. It's a lie...
4. Your car is not real, in that context. Your car is nice...your car has a Shelby nameplate (that is not in dispute). It is authentically a car that was sourced from a company that Shelby owned... not the company that made real and original Cobras.
5. In 1962, Shelby (and AC) made and sold cars.
6. In this generation, the Shelby company makes and sells kits that are a replica of the original, and a nice one at that.
7. You did not buy a car from Shelby, if we want to stay clinical about the semantics. You bought a kit. Your "car" wasn't built by Shelby; your car was built by an aging hippie in Pennsylvania...the guy who turned your kit into a motor vehicle.
So...
It is not that we really don't like you... it is the incessant irritant of your need to try and "educate" a circle of folks about an alternate reality.
It has always been clear that for some reason, you "need" to embrace your supposition that your car is genuinely real and needs to be footnoted whenever some poor kid tries to find out if he is looking at an original Cobra.
I know you won't stop and I know you won't be convinced otherwise...and that's OK.
And you are welcome to keep coming back periodically to ClubCobra to state your case, no matter how exasperating it is to listen to.
...and I will always continue to call BS.
