OK,
I will post here...reluctantly.
First, thank you to all who said such nice things about us. We do work hard at it and it is not easy to be a reliable supplier--especially with the Euro eating away at us. Pretty soon the dollar may not be worth toilet paper at this rate! The flip side is, over seas sales have been booming. We have 8 over seas cars on order right now.
We still supply Shelby with cars. That deal never died; I am not sure why some people think it did. They buy them from us every now and again. We just sent them 3 cars (if I remember right) only a few weeks or so ago...maybe a little longer; maybe 2 months, but I don't remember such details any more as we are now past 600 cars.
The cars they bought were all 427 cars. We still do make 289 Street cars in aluminum with the leaf spring chassis. In fact, we just had orders for 4 of them this week! Yes, they are a bear to make, but you know, we try to do just about anything a customer wants. Interestingly, Shelby has never bought a 289 street car from us. They have bought 289 FIA cars, however.
We are still a corporate sponsor of SAAC. They have been very nice to us over the years and this latest blow up hasn't changed anything. We have known Ned Scudder and others for years and years. They are the nicest guys you could imagine.
Just so everyone knows, SAAC was wanting information about Kirkham cars YEARS ago. I imagine they have wanted to put our cars in the Registry for quite some time. We discussed corporate sponsorship early in 2007, long before Shelby pulled the license or any of this latest drama came to pass. SAAC was very concerned our cars could be passed off as original cars sometime down the line by some "stinky characters" (of which, the world seems to have too many).
I think their concerns are/were very justified. On my brother's car, if you were to simply change the wiper motor, it would be extremely difficult to distinguish the car from an original car. Frankly, it would be almost impossible for even "experts" to separate the two now that the car has "weathered" for over 10 years. There are only very few, minor details to distinguish the car from an original car (which, for obvious reasons, I will not publish). There are but a handful of people who know all those secrets and SAAC knew our cars could easily be passed of as originals by unsavory miscreants with nefarious inclinations. They were justifiably concerned of fraud later down the road. SAAC NEVER indicated they were trying to "get Shelby back" or "We'll show him" or anything else like that. They had no reason to. From all the years I have known them, they just don't seem to be the Medea type of people.
I'll let you all go back to the fun,
David
