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Originally Posted by mrmustang
While not an official answer, I'm betting that the early cars are easier to track, trade hands far less often. For a late model Shelby product to be tracked, it would most likely take a crew 10+, working on a full time, 40 hour a week payroll. Some of the late model (CSX4000 and up) offerings are traded so much, they could have their own 1-3 full page spread using type 10 fonts.
Just my two cents worth on what the reasoning may be.
Bill
PS: I do question the sudden restart of a thread last posted on in 2009 though. Seems to be quite a few dead threads being resurrected recently for one reason or another, where a new thread would be warranted instead.
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I don't know if they are doing another print version (I'd heard it was on line only) but they have effectively cut their subscriber base down to a handful. The "original" cars' owners are well known and highly placed and could for the most part care less about the book and even less so about the content online (most of them have hired hands to take care of the cars and probably have only looked at the original books once.) So, who precisely is their market? I found out quite a bit about the CSXxxxxLA series in the book. (I used the bench copy at SAI, not spending that kind of money for two pages of info.) It's been a long time since the last one, anyone want to predict if there will even be another?
Note also that there are a number of originals that trade hands privately. I doubt the detectives are able to fully document the whereabouts of all of the original either. The history of any one of them is only as good as the public information available or the willingness of an owner to keep it up to date.
PS. The reason for my question was that at one time it had been asserted that only Shelby CSX cars would be dropped but that the Kirkhams would reamain. That seemed to be punitive for SAI, so at least all "continuation" cars are off the books.