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No attacks on anyone here, but if you think Carrol deserves a royalty payment for your replica, send him a check, I am sure he will accept it. IMO, I don't think the first guy who makes an engine swap into the body/frame of another car deserves a royalty check. Who gave Ford the rights to the AC car with a Ford V8 in it. If you put a Chevy motor in one of these, is it still a "Cobra" Replica? I don't know that Shelby ever put a Chevy motor in one, so does that exclude you from owing Shelby a royalty check. Can the first guy who ever put a different motor in a body/chassis come back and claim that was his intellectual property and now everyone who puts a different engine,trans, rear end in some other body / chassis now owes him a royalty check? I don't think Ford or Shelby has ownership of any rights in an engine swap into a car, that is just hotrodding. Your opinion may vary and that is alright with me.