Hey Ned: Guess what it already happened. Have you read post 1111? Those are not the words of a potato. That's a potato quoting the potatoes who said and wrote what they wrote in the 4th Edition of the World Registry of Cobras and GT 40's. You should notify them immediately of their errors. They made them all over and throughout that book. Doesn't anybody over there know what they are doing or saying.
You must have been asleep at the wheel?
Here is the deal Ned. Of course the Continuation Series are the true replicas of the original car. See your club's registry and Websters. Duh. SAI doesn't need the same corporate structure, the same employees, the same fabrication process etc...to generate genuine Shelby Cobras of a continuation series. They needed Carroll to want to produce a new Shelby Cobra and sell it to the public that was the same or damn near the same in shape and design as his original. It's a "continuation" series Ned. Not an original series silly. It stands on its own in its own series of Shelby Cobras. Let that marinate for awhile. Your club's Registry got it correct.
You club's Registry explains the misuse of that term "replica". Perhaps you didn't read it or perhaps you just don't like it and still push your agenda.
I am using your club's definition of these cars Ned. Not Joe Public's that has been misused. Gee, even your club's Registry implicitly says their definitions should be followed and used as owners tend to use "their own" definitions. Apparently you don't like that section of the Registry either.
Does SAAC know your over here with the barbarians taking a dump on their Registry to push your own personal views? They sold a lot of those books to enthusiast purporting it to be the leading authoritative text on Cobras. Sad that it contains all those misstatements as to the Continuation Cobras. Like I said, notify them immediately.
The new Indian Motorcycles replicate the originals. They are true replicas coming from the reconstituted company. They are not fake Indians are they? No, very simply they are not.
No one is challenging the special place originals have. I'm not certainly. I love them and their history and what they provided to me and others in this hobby. Carroll brought enthusiasts more cars after the originals in the 60's to enthusiasts who love what these cars are and the history behind them. Some of them continue his original car very closely and are "true replicas" and genuine Shelby Cobras some are totally new such as the KR (which did not "replicate the original" in 2008-9) Supersnakes etc.... Those are genuine Shelbys also.
The point is rather simple Ned it's a genuine Cobra. Not an original but an authentic Shelby Cobra. Neither you nor anyone can change that fact.
But I suppose to you and your blinding bias your Club's Registry just gave life to Pinocchio. I get your issue. All Continuation owners get your issue. It's patent.