Best response to, "Is that an original?"

[Thor maine]

Originally Posted by jhv48

Too many of you guys are hung up on this:

If it wasn't built, assembled, cobbled together (pick one) in the 60's in Carroll Shelby's shop, it ain't a real, original Shelby Cobra. PERIOD!

Yours may be newer, have a better frame, better suspension, be prettier, faster, handle better, more comfortable, more reliable, etc. etc. BUT IT ISN'T A REAL/ORIGINAL COBRA. Never was, never will be!

We're all driving clones, replicas, kit cars, fakes. No matter how you spin it, they're not a 1960's Cobra.

That's all a spectator wants to know. Is he in the presence of an original or not. Tell it like it is and move on! The fact that so many of you get all huffy when asked just shows that you are all wannabes, trying to live vicariously on the coat tails of the original car. And then you get all indignant when forced to admit you drive a kit car. Buy an original and then you can react with indignation when asked. Till then, you're driving a copy cat. Get over it!

But then, that's just my opinion. What do I know. I drive a fake!

Yes Yes Yes!!! This is what I have been saying here , unless it was built in the 60's by AC-SHELBY-FORD its not an original period!! Cars from Shelby American there is A little gray area but very little. So those of us with kit's/replicas it will never be an original no matter that you put a 60's Ford FE or that you matched the exact number of rivets around the hood scoop or you have the batteries behind the seat or that you stencil Good Year on the tires! So the answer is always "it's a replica and I built it myself"