[Turk]

While some of the lush amongst us want to drink, some of the sober ones want to know the following.

1-Let's say there are twenty replica manufacturers, and Venture goes after only two.
2-Let's say they win their case against those two and those two only.
3-You are manufacturer No.14
4-Are you going to wait until they sue you also, or is the court ruling against the SPF and FFR clear enouh of a verdict for you to fold your tent and go away?

How could Shelby elect to sue those two only. How selective can the plaintiff be when he names just two among many guilty of exactly the same act.

How different is civil law as compared to criminal law? You can't just pick up 10 people at a road block for DUI and take them to jail, and release 8 and keep two.

I don't believe Venture is going after FFR and SPF only because they wish the other manufacturers well. I believe they are doing so because if they sued all 20 or so manuacturers the defendents could easily pool their resources and possibly launch a formidable defense.

I doublt it they just want to shut those two and nothing more.

Why then those two?
IMHO
FFR because they are the highest volume domestic manufacturer.They are the low-end entry level kit, that could easily be presented as evidence that it is of such poor quality and it does not do any justice to those wonderful aluminum bodied CSX cars Shelby is selling.I can just hear it now!

"Your honor our cars cost well over $90,000 and here is this plastic car and bunch of nuts and bolts. Can you not see the difference in quallity? We have no chance of competing with such an outrageous counterfeit."

SPF because it is some foreign company operating out of Africa, who is "ripping Carroll Shelby of his creations". A knock off- A copy- A forgery if you will.

I am not a lawyer and I am very happy about that. I do have my doubts that this is a case against those two manufacturers only. If they prevail, it would not take anything more than a registered letter to, Midstates, Unique, ERA, Johnex, Everett Mopssrison and the rest simply asking them to stop it and stop it NOW!

Name one of the other manufacturers who has a different angle on this that they would elect to go back into court thinking that they will succeed where SPF and FFR failed.

My thoughts!!

Sadly enough, if that happens, SAI will have the last laugh at all of us. I can't blame them.

But if they were to mistake the demise of the Cobra Replica Industry as a new lease in life and record breaking sales for a company currently struggling to sell 6-7 cars a month then We will have the last laugh. No laughing matter everyone looses!

TURK