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Originally posted by STG
Series 9000 is still available! Wait, doesn't that designation belong to Saab? I just love this new shotgun approach to selling real replica Cobras.
This will stop soon, Shelby's gonna run out of numbers!
(The Series 1s were CSX5000s.)
Don't worry Brett & Evan YOU got REAL ones. Really.
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There is little doubt IMO that Shelby has cheapened his legacy. Of course, some would opine that he has simply continued his seedy legacy. His good legacy came first. Most people know the legacy of the racer and Cobra developer, while Shelby himself and Frigo and Fenimore and countless other seem intent on permanently and completely replacing the cool legacy with the nasty one.
There is so much crap in the world, I prefer to hold on to the cool legacy when it comes to thinking of the car I've wanted since I was a kid. I always thought it was a Shelby Cobra. I'm not blind, I just choose to remember the good childhood memories, and don't really care about what happened later. This is my choice. Others want to reduce everything to its lowest common denominator. Kinda like Gordon Geeko... "Why do I wreck it? Because it's wreckable". Like the Republicans and the Democrats, it gets old.
Replacing one persona with another. Isn't that why Janet Jackson showed us her booby (to get Michael off the front pages for a while).