rumor control--has SAAC lost its use of Shelby name?

[Power Surge]

One thing I've noticed since getting back into Cobras a few years back and dealing with Shelby, is mass disorganization. I do realize that Amy came into the middle of the Shelby mess, and she had done a supurb job thus far dragging SAI out of a really big hole (and not just financially). But even to this day, things just don't ever seem to add up. Shelby is still full of double standards and always seems to be stepping on it's own feet.

Reading the Team Shelby article in the new magazine, Carroll says some interesting things. He says he wants a club for Shelby owners to be able to join together, communicate, and have fun at national events. He wants a club that embraces and caters to Shelby cars and their owners. Well, there already IS a club that does this, and has been working hard at it for 30 years. It's called SAAC. Then the article goes on to say that Shelby wanted to partner with an existing club to get this going. Did they go with SAAC? No. They went with the S197 Mustang club.

So here's what I see, looking at this from the outside...

Shelby slapped SAAC in the face, but saying he wanted a club of his own that does what SAAC already does.

Shelby slapped SAAC in the face AGAIN, by saying they wanted to partner with an existing club to get this off the ground, and passing SAAC up.

Shelby continues to show mass disorganization by saying they want forums for members to communicate, when they already have the Shelby Owners Forum, AND the Shelby Forums, which is run by Carrolls grandson (or grand nephew, I forget exactly).

Basically, to the public eye, Shelby is turning his back on the clubs that have supported him, the people who've supported him, his own existing entities and even his own family in order to have "his own" club.

Politics and business aside, the morality revolving around this whole mess speaks way more volumes than any legal papers or business decisions.

I wish I could support Team Shelby, but it's a tough choice to make given the facts thus far.