I just can't understand why Joe's Garage and RodKnock continue to insist on berating and belittling the Shelby Cobras. There is a troll on the Shelby forum trying to belittle the KR, but his mission is to persuade someone who owns one that it is worthless so the troll can buy it for under 20k. Neither of you has expressed any interest in buying one, so it's not doing you any personal good to try to knock down the price. So in the end, all you are doing is convincing others who have no interest in buying one that any price above that of a Factory Five kit is a waste of money, and no Shelby can ever be worth more or as nice as Kirkhams. And even if you convince me to berate my (former) car by lowering it to that level, and convince the very few other Shelby continuation owners here the same, it's irrelevant. The huge majority of Shelby owners aren't even participants here, and if they lurk and don't post this is the reason, the market for those cars is almost exclusively NOT HERE.
You won't convince me to use words anything other than the car I (used to own) is a Shelby Continuation Cobra.
I know you would prefer something like:
Q: Oh wow that's cool, is it real?
A: Oh my God I'm glad you (sob) asked that (sob) question. I (sob) feel it is time (Sob) for me to come clean. (sob) It's (sob) a worthless copy of (sob) a car built by a snake
oil (sob) salesman and (sob) totally a (sob) scam upon the (sob) public. I'm so (sob) sorry (sob) that I have (sob) decieved you into thinking that it is anything (sob) other than something (sob) built (Sob) by a 16 year old junkie in high school (sob) in the shop. I (sob) will see to it (sob) that it is destroyed (sob) today so that I (sob) don't decieve (sob) anyone any more. If (sob) you wish (sob) I will fall on my sword (sob) afterwards.
On the other hand, the real market for Shelbys is strong, lead times are long, and used versions on Cobra Country move quickly at or near asking price (which is rarely anything but the highest)
So remind us again, what is the purpose if the discussion? What is the expected outcome?
By the way, Joe's Garage can't show us pictures of his car because he found after he opened the crate that it was entirely PVC plastic, and that it came with this toolkit:
Bosch Tool Set with Ixolino by Theo Klein
Continue to have fun.