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...apparently Shelby Las Vegas has allerted (sic) nationwide motor vehicles to look out for bogus kit cars that have the Shelby name.
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Unfortunately, since this is a "REAL" kit car with the Shelby name, the owner ended up getting hosed by CS in another attempt to stick the broom handle up the a$$es of all the people who own cars which resemble the ones he dismissed as "obsolete" years ago when they were only worth a few thousand bucks and when he said he didn't care who copied them.
I contend that it's not the original cars which made CS famous with people born since the 1950's; it's the replicas. Heck, there were only a handful of originals and who ever sees one today? Nobody, unless they go to an event like the BRIC at Road America last weekend. The only reason Joe Average knows about Cobras is because they've become more widely known due to the number of replicas. Otherwise he wouldn't know a Cobra from an Austin Healey 3000 from a Mercedes 300 SL from an MGA. Shelby conceived the car, used it while it suited his needs, then walked away when it no longer was profitable. Now that WE'VE made it mainstream famous, he's interested again, and he's happy to source cars from wherever and sell them as "REAL" Cobras.
Apparently, in addition to presiding over a company which takes customers' money with little interest in providing a product in any kind of a timely manner, he's also not too worried about sticking it to 'em again when they go to register their cars. Of course this isn't precedent-setting: he did the same thing when he "found" all the "original" frames from which he built the continuation cars which are un-registerable in some states.
Good thing he's selling cars. If he were selling securities, he'd probably be in freakin' jail.
I wonder whether Hormel ever sued CS for selling "Chili"...
Lowell