Shelby interview in Road & Track

[CobraEd]

http://www.roadandtrack.com/article....rticle_id=6802

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[Juggernaut]

Thanks CobraEd, now I can read it before I make anymore judgements.

[Mark IV]

"I'd really like to have all that stuff from the old days for the Shelby Museum we're building at the factory in Las Vegas. I want my legacy to be mine and Ford's, not part of some for-profit operation."

So Ford and SAI are not "for profit" operations?

"In my opinion, if these people aren't smart enough to design their own cars, they shouldn't be able to make money reproducing what I did in the 1960s, with help from Ford and great people like Ken Miles and Jerry Titus."

Remind me again what cars CS "designed"? The only vehicle Shelby (any iteration of the company) ever designed for the street was the Series 1. (I am not counting the Shelby Can-Am race car and there may be some question about who really designed the car I am told)

Revisionist history at its best!

[A-Snake]

Originally Posted by Mark IV

"In my opinion, if these people aren't smart enough to design their own cars, they shouldn't be able to make money reproducing what I did in the 1960s, with help from Ford and great people like Ken Miles and Jerry Titus."

I don't know, maybe he meant to say what John Tojeiro did in the 1950s

[lovehamr]

Originally Posted by Mark IV

"I'd really like to have all that stuff from the old days for the Shelby Museum we're building at the factory in Las Vegas. I want my legacy to be mine and Ford's, not part of some for-profit operation."

So Ford and SAI are not "for profit" operations?[/b]

Now I do agree that the old snake oil salesman is quite the revisionist (just look at his BS tirade about the Coupes), however in the above quote he does say "Mine and Fords" he didn't even insinuate that he or Ford were NPOs just that it was HIS. He did nail SAAC on that one though. And I for one still don't see why anyone would want to support Kopec and Eber in a financial sense. A chartered NPO trustee run organization would be just as good (maybe better) at preserving a legacy; but the time for that went bye, bye when SAAC went for profit. What I still see is that both sides are so full of BS that it's collecting on the whole hobby. And it stinks.

Steve

[Mark IV]

Originally Posted by lovehamr

Now I do agree that the old snake oil salesman is quite the revisionist (just look at his BS tirade about the Coupes), however in the above quote he does say "Mine and Fords" he didn't even insinuate that he or Ford were NPOs just that it was HIS. He did nail SAAC on that one though. And I for one still don't see why anyone would want to support Kopec and Eber in a financial sense. A chartered NPO trustee run organization would be just as good (maybe better) at preserving a legacy; but the time for that went bye, bye when SAAC went for profit. What I still see is that both sides are so full of BS that it's collecting on the whole hobby. And it stinks.

Steve

Your point is true, however don't "bus-roll" Rick and Ken just because they are making profit. Lord knows, I am not the biggest SAAC fan out there, BUT they have provided a product that many see value in, and seeing such value are willing to pay dues to get the percieved benefits. Remember basic economics, "find a need and fill it"? They did. It's just that the train they hopped on has stopped and asked them for tickets.

I find the fact that both sides, who had their lips firmly attached the other's butt for years, have now "suddenly" discovered that the other is Satan incarnate!!!!