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Originally Posted by Gunner
No intention of starting a religious flame war here - from the scorch marks on the walls, it's not the first time.
I'll simply point out that, once upon a time, Jim Davis actually drew the Garfield comic strip. For the last two decades, he's been an "executive cartoonist" while legions of drones turn out the strips, books, posters, etc. As a cartoon aficionado, that really ruins it for me - I'll take the work turned out by one artist, day after day, knowing he or she sweated blood to do it.
In the same way, there's perhaps a difference between distributing the load in a real racing season, and cynically rubber-stamping one's name on things in return for a check. In the end, $20-25k for Unca Carroll's blessing wasn't worth it to me. Nor do I think CSX4000's will ever appreciate like originals; they'll just remain some fraction of that premium pricier than other quality builds.
But no diss on any 4000 or its owner, none at all. This isn't even a chocolate-vanilla-strawberry world; it's 31 Flavors and they all have admirers.  |
Well, your Jim Davis example is a good theory, but still not quite the same thing. Shelby didn't manufacture the cars, AC did. Then shipped to Shelby where people Carroll HIRED to finish the cars, built them to customer specs. Carroll himself never really built cars. And, that's really just comp cars, as the street 427s were built entirely at AC, and shipped overseas to Shelby as finished running cars.
That's not to take anything away from the glory and history of original cars, but is that so different than a current CSX? Built by an outside company hired by Carroll to build him cars to sell. And since modern standards don't allow Shelby to sell a finished car, instead of the roller coming from AC and being finished at Shelby, now the rollers go to Shelby dealers to be finished (or the customer if they choose). And in reality, modern CSXs are more true Shelbys than orginals (of course original owners would never admit that, and I probably wouldn't either if I owned an original), because every part on the car is done to Shelby's specs. Shelby is in 100% control of the new cars.
Oh, and as for CSX4000 appreciation, they absolutely do appreciate. And they are the only non-60s Cobra that does. Before the economy took a hit, finished glass cars were selling for close to 100k, and finished alloys were hitting 150k. Currently they've dropped to selling for about what they cost to build, but yet most other brands of Cobra have dropped to considerably less than the cost to finish.
Just my 2 cents of course
