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Originally Posted by Joewillie
Do you put Shelby down because you build replicas and call them Cobras? What do you think of putting a Rolex name plate on a watch that is not a Rolex? Is that okay in your book?
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I put $helby down because: He badged Cobras equipped with 428s as 427s.
I put $helby down because he has a "charity" that evidently keeps 95% of the money contributed to it.
I put $helby down because he told an interviewer that Pete Brock's design of the Daytona Coupe was the biggest mistake he's ever made.
I put $helby down because he told magazine editors that he didn't mind people making copies of his old race car only years later sue FFR (and lose) over rights he doesn't hold.
I put $helby down because he put his name on the car used in the second Gone In 60 Seconds movie even though he had nothing whatsoever to do with the Chip Foose design of "Eleanor" version 2.0.
I put $helby down because the old coot tried to convince everybody that he had a stash of original CSX3000 chassis in his Gardena, California warehouse. Yessirie, he jess found um one day and sure enough they were the rest of the uncompleted/unsold run of competition 427s. $helby applied for replacement titles to the California DMV. He figured that because the chassis were originals, he could complete them as 1965 Cobras and bypass 1990 safety and smog standards. He figured he could sell these "original" Cobras for $500,000 each. Too bad he didn't figure of AC cars owner Brian Angliss filing a lawsuit claiming that AC cars had NEVER delivered bare 427 chassis to $helby American and the chassis $helby claimed to have found were not built by AC Cars. Too bad the Los Angeles Times wrote a story about this mess with an admission by cobra restorer Mike McCluskey that $helby commissioned him to build the "original" chassis. Too bad the California DMV found out about this little charade and stopped it.
It certainly looks like $helby tried to counterfeit his very own cars. Why does he hate replicas? Is that O.K. in your book?
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