A Ferrari-powered ERA Cobra...?

[PDUB]

Originally Posted by twobjshelbys

Do you know who finis conner is?

...actually, I was involved in a startup with him... though I never met him. He tried to shellac us! Seems he tried to depress the value to acquire our technology. He got run out on a rail! I ended up losing my shirt in the deal, and it has delayed my Cobra project for years and years...



but it was an amazing adventure while it lasted! Almost a movie script kind-of experience.

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by PDUB

...actually, I was involved in a startup with him... though I never met him. He tried to shellac us! Seems he tried to depress the value to acquire our technology. He got run out on a rail! I ended up losing my shirt in the deal, and it has delayed my Cobra project for years and years...



but it was an amazing adventure while it lasted! Almost a movie script kind-of experience.

The shenanigans that went on in the hard drive industry make Shelby's repainting the one car look angelic. Remember that Maxtor shipped bricks, literally, bricks, in boxes to a warehouse to claim shipments in one quarter.

There is an article on Wikipedia that shows the mergers and acquisitions that result in three hard drive companies today and they are collapsing with the takeover of solid state drives in almost all consumer products. Very few laptops use HDDs any more as SSDs are at 2TB capacity...

I built the world's first 1GB 3.5" HDD at DEC which got DEC into the OEM business competing head to head with Seagate. Then at Maxtor I was a principal team member that invented Serial ATA (SATA) and I moved to Seagate where we shipped the first SATA (with bridge) drive and 6 months later the first fully integrated SATA drive a year ahead of the competition.

[Harpoon PV2]

Originally Posted by twobjshelbys

The shenanigans that went on in the hard drive industry make Shelby's repainting the one car look angelic.

The repainting of CSX2000 turns out to be a myth, Carrol claiming Dean stripped it each time. When CSX2000 came up for auction, the photographers went crazy. One of the things they photographed were the paint chips, and one can see, only the three colors were ever on the car. In reverse order, the blue we see now, candy yellow by Dean, (some say they see a second yellow, because the candy did not stand up to the California sun?) Then the original brushed aluminum, (or is that aluminium?) the color it was in the first article, Sports Car Graphic, with Shelby hand lettered by John Christy. That's all, there are no more colors! Not sure why he exaggerated the number of paint jobs, he had more orders then he could handle after the New York show. Cheers, Dennis

[blykins]

I can hear the excuses now......

"But but but Shelby talked to Ferrari about putting a Ferrari engine in a Cobra!"

[eschaider]

Originally Posted by PDUB

...actually, I was involved in a startup with him... though I never met him. He tried to shellac us! Seems he tried to depress the value to acquire our technology. He got run out on a rail! I ended up losing my shirt in the deal, and it has delayed my Cobra project for years and years...



but it was an amazing adventure while it lasted! Almost a movie script kind-of experience.

Of all the sharks that swim in the start-up waters for entrepreneurs, the high-tech and oil industry sharks by far have the tallest fins, sharpest teeth, and most highly developed kill instincts. The commercial Real Estate crowd runs a very close second. Swimming in those waters is not for novices.