Excal: I was a Shelby fan for many years (I owned a GT-350 in the early 80's), now I'm a fan of the car. I DO applaud him for his accomplishments and what he's ment to racing. Don't you think his peers have recognized him for his achievments of the past? I feel they are thinking of him as a greedy old man today, though!
What he's been doing for the past few years, with the lawsuits and everything else, has been done out of greed and jealously (IMO). He can't stand the fact that others are making money off of a car (really, the body.....that wasn't even his) that he gave up on years ago. He's doing nothing more than trying to put the Cobra Replica industry out of business. He couldn't do it with the lawsuits, so now he's trying with a "new" South Africa roller sold at a much lower price than the cars he offers already (almost the same price as SPF's roller.......coincidence???) I have no problem with competition (it's what makes our country great - IMO), but this is how he should have gone about it from the beginning, (instead of going after people who didn't mind dropping 100+K on a car). Most people couldn't afford that, or simply felt his cars weren't worth the extra coin$ after researching some other companies and finding out others made great cars.
He's burned a lot of bridges and ticked a lot of people / fans off these past few years. As for what he's doing for the automotive sport TODAY, I have no idea what you're speaking of - other than creating competition in the Roller market. I'm sure he's hoping that his new rollers will also create a wave of price DECREASES in the used Cobra market and lower the value of the "other" mfgr's replica's. Take that, all you "poor" guys that couldn't afford to purchase a CSX from Shelby America. You all deserve to loose money, you cheap ba$tards!!
