Nasty Rumors

[shelbygt500]

Received my alloy Shelby within a year as promised...'nuf said.

[saltytri]

A year? Your standard seems to be that a year is OK because SAI met a ridiculously extended delivery date. Since they can get a chassis and body from Kirkham in a matter of days, why does it take a year to finish the car? There are guys who could carve the car from billet with a Swiss Army knife in a year.

[lineslinger]

Originally Posted by saltytri

A year? Your standard seems to be that a year is OK because SAI met a ridiculously extended delivery date. Since they can get a chassis and body from Kirkham in a matter of days, why does it take a year to finish the car? There are guys who could carve the car from billet with a Swiss Army knife in a year.

Well put, I wouldn't be talking up how I waited for an entire year to take delivery of a friggin' car. My common sense tells me not to leave that kind of money sitting in someone elses account working for them instead of me for an entire year. Hell, you can build a 3.000 square ft. house in 8 months. Then there is always that inflated sale price to display the SAI badge.

[Power Surge]

Originally Posted by saltytri

A year? Your standard seems to be that a year is OK because SAI met a ridiculously extended delivery date. Since they can get a chassis and body from Kirkham in a matter of days, why does it take a year to finish the car? There are guys who could carve the car from billet with a Swiss Army knife in a year.

I agree to an extent, but keep in mind Shelby isn't selling a rebadged Kirkham. Only the chassis itself and the body comes from KMP. Everything else is Shelby. And Shelby "wait times" usually revolve around waiting for parts from outside vendors. Keep in mind that the alloy cars don't use the same parts as the glass cars, so it's not like they could have HST ship some misc parts to LV to finish an alloy roller if they are missing some parts. Plus, Shelby sells many less alloy cars than glass cars, so most likely "stocked" alloy car parts are not kept on hand in large amounts. And lastly, don't forget the alloy CSX cars do not come unfinished, they come fully painted and that takes time as well.

Not making excuses for Shelby, but there are many other things that factor into alloy roller wait times. It's much more involved than "getting a body/chassis from Kirkham in a matter of days" (BTW, that's a whole other ordeal).

[jdog]

If you really believe enough, and you close your eyes & click your heels together 3 times and say "There's nothing like a Shelby" over & over, when you finally open your eyes, this is what you'll see:



Pretty nice car, if the wait don't kill you!

jdog