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Originally Posted by Tommy
REAL 1,
It's one thing to express an opinion as such. It's another to state an opinion and use the actions of the SAAC to claim it as a fact. The fact that the SAAC exists, it maintains a registry, and that registry includes some cars but not others does not make the cars it includes automatically more collectible, more valuable or more authentic than any others manufactured after 1967. What it likely reflects is that the SAAC must have permission from the Shelby Trust to use his name and the Trust wants the SAAC to include in its registry contemporary cars in which it has a financial interest. If Shelby American could make the right deal with FFR, it wouldn't surprise me a bit to see them added to the registry. So, I suggest you allow the market to determine the relative values of the various Cobra clones produced after 1967. Your claims that those recently manufactured cars listed in the SAAC registry are intrinsically more authentic than others comes across as either naive or self serving.
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Tommy: let's review.
1. The continuation Cobras are genuine Shelby Cobras. Fact.
2. No other manufacturer may represent or call their products "Cobras" or Shelby Cobras. Fact.
3. SAAC is the worlds leading authority on Cobras. Fact.
4. A major purpose of the Registry is to identify, catalog Cobras and to establish definitions defining what cars are considered by SAAC authentic "Cobras". Fact.
Your suppositions as why SAAC included some cars and not others remains your personal suppositions....to which you are entitled to have. They specifically and expressly provide definitions as to replica/kit vs. Cobras. You may not like their definitions and position but there you have it. I just happen to agree with them.
I said nothing about collectibility. That's a different discussion. However there is no doubt in my mind that Shelby continuation Cobras have a far better shot at being collectible than replicas and are more desirable finances permitting. That's MY Humble opinion to which I am entitled.