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Chappy: Whoa! You're kidding right? Then why does ERA make there cars look like the Shelby Cobra and not the famous Edsel???. Come on lets be REAL here.

Why don't they just put another body on it of lets say a Model T or some other car. Lets be fair. They are cloning the look of a Shelby Cobra. Thats the intent and the goal and it has always been their intent and goal. Thats why you wanted one because of its aesthetic accuracy to the Shelby Cobra. Would you have bought an ERA if they were made to look like the German Kubble Wagon? No, I don't think so. I have no problem with it, and they do it better than all the rest IMHO, but thats what they are doing.

Yes, it is all in the licensing and the rights. There is no magic in the object itself. Just as it was in the 60's. No one else in the 60's could make Shelby Cobras either regardless of who the fabricators were. Any man made object can be remade by others but its the right to make and sell it legally that counts.

Thorconstr: I don't think you get it. Then CSX 3003 is a replica of CSX 3002.