[acaskie]

Jim, I suspect Mr. Shelby is just chapped about the fact that many of the replicas out there have a stiffer chassis, better suspension. better brakes and more performance than his originals. In many ways , that's also true with respect to his continuation cars-- who's going to pay $150,000 for a transverse leaf-spring FIA, even with Shelby's name on it, when they can get a better handling and performing twin from ERA or Unique for less than a third of that? Apparently, not many people. And that's what's at the heart of this-- it's not the originals and their sacred memory that Shelby is worried about. It's his over-priced continuation models, which are not moving well and which he never would have even thought of producing if he hadn't seen how well the replicas were doing. The replica manufacturers created the market, and now he wants it, period. As usual, it's not about artistic purity, it's about money.