[REAL 1]

Its absolutely comical how some guys trash Shelby, his name and argue the name "Shelby" "Shelby American" "Cobra" adds no value or little value to the car as far as they are concerned and that to pay extra for the name is a rip off but when the time to sell rolls around they clearly misrepresent and paint their car as a "Shelby Cobra". Hmmm. Wonder why. Just a little hypocritical, don't you think? Why not just say its a SPF since after all most would rather have an SPF anyway since they are superior in chasis design, quality etc. to the flimsy CSX chasis and prison labor glass bodies blah, blah blah as professed by the SPF fanatics without offering any emperical proof.

Dollars to donuts the guy with SPF on ebay advertising it as "Shelby Cobra" (of which it is not) would probably tell you before the decision to sell was made by him that the name "Shelby" or "Shelby Cobra" "wasn't worth it to him to pay "all that money just for the name". Except now he obviously feels it as value enough to include in the ad.

Comical.

That ebay ad is just the kind of crap that Shelby gets pissed about. Don't blame him one bit.

When people ask me if my car is a kit I tell them its a Shelby Cobra. The reason. Technically it may qualify under the current DMV definition of kit but today the term "kit" has become associated with "fake" or replica in the public mind and common usage. So I just them them its a Real Shelby Cobra of the continuation series. Which is exactly what it is.