12-26-2008, 06:10 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Yorba Linda,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: SPF w/392CI stroker
Posts: 3,293
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ZOERA-SC7XX
Didn't he sue SPF before they agreed to pay the ransom?
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SPF did the smart thing and settled by agreeing to pay a license fee/royalty for each Coupe sold. Probably gets passed to the consumer anyway, just like everything else in life. I don't know the details and I don't NEED to know the details. All I do know is that it apparently works, as SPF appears healthy and sells cars, and the 'Ol Chicken Farmer doesn't hassle them anymore (at least no one here as reported anything).
One would think that FFR (another Daytona Coupe manufacturer) would realize that route is far cheaper than litigation? To each his own. Call it ransom or extortion or THE LAW. Whatever it is, it's business and this sort of thing goes on a heck of a lot more in entirely different industries and lines of work than most people realize.
I'm not saying you have to like it, and I'm not siding with CS...I can't stand the guy from a business perspective. But back in the day he made kick ass cars and I like driving one of them (replica or otherwise).
I wish the folks at FFR well and hope they can resolve this one. The hobby needs FFR to remain at a healthier state. Absent of them wouldn't kill the industry, but it would be a tough, tough blow.
-Dean
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