04-14-2006, 06:45 PM
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Senile Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY USA,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
Posts: 4,566
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Originally Posted by What'saCobra?
His drive for design & mfg perfection would have dove-tailed nicely into Carroll's drive for race-team winning performance, but they were from two different generations, separated by a common language; a builder and a promoter. Brian's insufferance and Carroll's mouth doomed them to antagony. FORD's wishy-washy on-again off-again flip/flops screwed them both. Like GM, FORD is paying today's price for their long-ambivalent customer concerns.
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Whatsa...true, that.
The "on-again, off-again", affair between Brian and CS was like watching a train wreck, you knew what would happen yet you could not look away! 
My favorite BA moment was during dinner with my family a few days after Brian had left our hospitalty at casa de Muck, recieved a phone call from Brian....."do you know where I am calling from he asked?" Knowing I had put him on a plane to L.A. I replied California? Yes, but WHERE in Cali he countered? I dunno..... "I'm sitting at CARROLL SHELBY'S SWIMMING POOL!!!!!" Brian replied! He even bought a sweater for Christine as a gift, I was told.....they made nice....and shortly after they once again fell out of sorts.
There was never a dull moment. I do miss Brain despite any issues we might have had, he was a real "go-getter" and made silk purses out of sows ears and thin air. Lubinsky could only learn from such a man............ 
That Mark IV guy is a real jerk! No, wait, that Muck guy is all Fu.......
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