Why does every thread here devolve into a "Real" vs. "Replica" argument?

[REAL 1]

Originally Posted by Al G

Evan - how much of your car was built by Kirkham? I know the 50th anniversary cars are almost 100% Kirkham but I don't think that was the case for the earlier cars.

Al, the only parts of my car that are Kirkham are the body and frame. All other components including brakes, wiring, plumbing, suspension, headlights, brake light lenses and everything else are from Shelby American. My car is an early alloy car having been constructed in or about 1999/2000. Alloy cars were an option made available a year or so after glass cars were being produced. As Bill Andrews at HRE advised me, back in those days SAI was still using a lot of NOS parts like original seat rails, Girling brakes, original style suspension, Hardy Spicer half shafts, trim parts etc... They wised up later and stopped using NOS stuff that they had in storage and used fabricated parts, Willwood brakes etc... all good stuff but stepped away from NOS stuff.

Bottom line a Shelby is a Shelby.

When you compare my friend's Kirkham to my Shelby, the suspension, brakes etc, etc.... are different.