CSX 3000's at my local Ford dealer

[peterpjb]

Carroll Shelby quotes from Kit Car Illustrated – October 1986

„I’ve seen the cars before and they’re damn nice work but why doesn’t Brian Angliss build something he thought up instead of copying somebody else?“

[1985 CCX]

Well Brian A is in seclusion at this point so my feeling would be he would say:
As the go to for restoration parts for these Shelby cars in 70'/80's, then Ford wanting a DOT approved MKIII type car to add to there other small manufactured batch cars like the BOSS, Pantera, Intermecanica etc... It was more of a fit than a total re-design.

Dunno but I agree they had there differences but so did CS and KMS, all Replica MFG, Gelsco, HiTech tec...
No stone unturned...

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