"Carroll Shelby Speaks Out" Article

[DAVID GAGNARD]

Real 1;

The way I see it is that the things he has tried to do to the replica industry (shut it down completely) is what is making everybody mad at him and turning on him. It is about greed on CS's part.

He originally asked the replica industry for $1,000.00 per car sold.......That may not sound like a lot for a high end car,but for a $12,000.00 FFR kit,that's a lot.........

His suit against FFR asked for 10 million in damages and all their tooling and molds to be destroyed!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sounds like a lot to me.............

There is numerous documentation of CS actually embracing the replica industry years ago and he actually was in adds for certain companys or gave his blessing for their cars,now all of a sudden he does an about-face and changes his stance and wants them ALL out of business....That's what has everyone so worked up and against him.....

Did you know FFR has spent over 1 million dollars with his suit???????? Who knows how much Superformance has and will spend on theirs....That alone is enough to put the majority of the smaller manufacteres out of business........

It is not that we do not like CS, I have nothing but high regards for what he has accomplished in his racing and car building career,just that now he is single handely trying to shut down the entire Cobra replica industry and deprive hundreds if not thousands of people from owning one...............

David