[Bill Wells]

Fox, a lot of folks buy the after market Shelby vin plates and take them to their local trophy shop and have a 'made up' CSX serial engraved on them. The first official CSX number is 2000 as you stated. Some of the folks 'select' their made up CSX vin's from serial sequences that are known to be non existant. Some of the more brazen folks will actually engrave a correct CSX number, either knowingly or accidentally. Many folks use the CSX after market vin plate and put on their correct serial with or without a prefix, same with Mustang GT 350 clones. So, the real question for the seller of the ebay listing you gave, is what does he really have as it ain't no CSX. I cannot distinguish the brand based on the photos in his adv listing, but others perhaps can. If the seller bought that car thinking it was a CSX and paid CSX prices for it , then he is in for a real resale surprise !

MrMustang...thanks for the reminder of the scam tip of 'pre approved' for the adv listed and so many similar ebay seller requests. I can see how some folks could get sucked into that and unknowingly provide the information requested, regardless of the price or item being sold . Wonder how many have already done that ? hmmmm... Bill.