Carroll Shelby

[saturnkk]

Originally Posted by mrmustang

So, specifically, what do you own?

As for the rest, some of us have been around the cars for 30+ years, since you are "new to this", you have already come across as someone with a chip on his shoulder and is not who he says he is.

So again, I'll ask, what Shelby product do you own?


Bill S.

PS: There was never any "VIN FRAUD", Ford engine production had issues producing the 427 sideoiler engines and substituted the 428CJ in it's place. All are well documented with their factory invoices. All are also extremely well documented in the SAAC Registry I pointed you to. You want to learn everything you can about the cars, that is the only book I would suggest you purchase right now.

I own a A&C Kit Replica as I cannot afford an original Cobra.

I don't have a chip at all, seems some are very very defensive here. Wikipedia describes VIN fraud that I was refering to (not the 428 issues)
here:

Counterfeit Cobras

In 1993 the Los Angeles Times blew the lid off a Carroll Shelby scheme[10] to "Counterfeit" his own cars. With the price of an original 427 c.i. Cobra skyrocketing, Shelby had, by his own written declaration executed under penalty of perjury, caused the California Department of Motor Vehicles (the government agency responsible for titling vehicles and issuing operator permits) to utter [11] forty-three "Duplicate Titles" for vehicles that did not officially exist in company records. A letter from AC Cars confirmed the fact that the chassis numbers Shelby had obtained titles for were never manufactured, at least by AC Cars. Only fifty-five 427 c.i. Cobras had been originally produced out of a block of serial numbers reserved for 100 vehicles. Shelby had taken advantage of a loophole in the California system that allowed one to obtain a duplicate title for a vehicle only on a written declaration, without the vehicle identification number appearing in the DMV's database [12] or the declarant ever presenting an actual vehicle for inspection.[13] Shelby later admitted[14] that the chassis had been manufactured in 1991 and 92 by McCluskey Ltd, an engineering firm in Torrance, California, and were not authentic AC chassis.

AC Cobra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I guess I should have known better than to post this thread. Oh well...