[mrmustang]

Great Asp ,

I'll be happy to elaborate just a bit:

I visited a friend who owns an SPF, I was sitting debugging his computer and asked if I could log in using his account and tale a peek around, as I was in the market for another Cobra at that time and wanted to see what might have been listed for sale there. It is there I stumbled on a few choice comments in some threads that I had a chance of reading. As someone else who had owned an SPF stated, 95% is clean, and the rest is not (or something along those lines) Next, from the posts not only there, but here as well by SPF owners and dealers (just do a search going back less than several pages, you'll find them), we could see at that time, that the SPF folks were getting a bit jumpy from the new South African Shelby CSX4000 series cars due here soon. Just their attitude and their postureing showed that. You have not personally heard any owners complaining of how these new cars would effect the market, but at the same time, the owners here and there, along with elsewhere on the web all of a sudden "enmass" started to drasticly lower their asking prices by as much as $10,000(in two cases) in order to attract more buyers...Buyers which they obviously saw as being potentially attracted to the new CSX4000 series (three in NJ alone that I know personally from my attempts at selling my Contemporary). So, coupled with what I saw on the SCOF website/forum, coupled with what we have all seen here over the course of the last few weeks, and from personally speaking with several SPF owners who at the time were trying to market their own cars, I came to these conclusions. Again, I have nothing against SPF, or SCOF, I like the cars, and the group of owners in general. I guess it all comes back to the following question which remains unanswered.

Why would the owners of the SPF's (owners and some outspoken dealers) come over here (or anywhere else), and posturize about how much better their cars are than (insert any competition here). Why would they bother to do so, unless they were feeling a bit inferior in one way shape or form?????????????

When that question can be answered in a rational manner, we will then be able to let things like this thread die off...Until then, you'll have certain folks get their panties all tangled, and think that anyone else who does not agree with one party line or another is an attack on their own sensabilities, for which my comments are not meant..............Again, I see things in black and white, no middle ground or gray areas..........Take a step back, look over say the last months worth of postings, and you may seen the pattern in which I speak of...............Thanks again for asking in a civilized manner...So few these days will want to know where both sides are coming from.


Sincerely,

Bill S.