How do you answer, "Is it real?"

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by peterpjb

csx 4000-9000: real Shelby Cobras
csx 2000-3000: original Shelby Cobras

there is no help for those who either refuse or aren't able to understand differentiated facts

From Ned Scudder (Nedsel), the caretaker of the Shelby World Registry for the only real Cobras, those built between 1962-1967 (page 57, post #1127), and the world's foremost expert on Cobras, since you guys refuse to read the old 64-page thread:

Why does every thread here devolve into a "Real" vs. "Replica" argument?

"This is simply pointing out the obvious, but all Evan has taught anyone is how to be obstinate, selective in one's statement of the facts, and twist reality to suit his agenda. Both the registry and the SAAC website clearly state the later Shelby-built Cobras are replicas of the 60's icon, but Evan focuses only on the club's decision to call them something else to help distinguish them from other replicas.

Face the facts: a car built to copy something built by a different company some 35 years earlier with different tooling and materials in a dissimilar manner on a different continent with an entirely different corporate structure, clearly can't be the same as the original. The story of Pinocchio was a fable, and even though a fairy princess turned a bundle of sticks into a "real, live, boy,"no fairy can turn a 2001 Shelby Cobra into a real 1965 AC-Shelby Cobra.

But if and when it happens, please let us know."