Quoted from the 2008 SAAC World Registry,
“CSX4000 Manufacturer’s Statement of Origin (MSO).
The model year, given as “1965” on all CSX4000 MSO’s, is actually incorrect because it is supposed to indicate the actual year the car was manufactured. Instead, Shelby American used it to describe the year of the car they were building (because it was a recreation of a car that had been built in 1965). They were concerned that describing the car as a current year (i.e. 1997) model would mean that it had to comply with safety and emission requirements for a new car. This sidestep eliminated that problem for Shelby, but has caused problems for owners later on when they attempted to register and/or insure their cars because DMVs or insurance companies caught the discrepancy of a car that was constructed in, say, 1997 as being described as a 1965 model on the paperwork. Fortunately, most states are rewriting their motor vehicle laws where street rods and replica vehicles are concerned and allowing them to be registered as the year of the car they most resemble”
By the way the Registry is available for purchase at
http://www.saac.com/index.php?page=s...hk=1&Itemid=45 