How do you answer, "Is it real?"

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Oh, I just have to get involved in this thread !!



Precisely.

But, Some people don;t want a current challenger, they want an old one.

What if Dodge produced and sold a new 1970 Hemi Challenger convertible again, less engine / tranny, identical to an "original" 1970 hemi challenger convertible, and sold it as a finished roller, as it doesn't meet the current emissions / safety stuff.

Would you buy one ? I'd buy one. Obviously, they never will do this.
Would this be a replica ? Real ? Fake ? Continuation ?

Well, the way I view it is that this is what Shelby has done, offered basically the same car he sold 55 years ago, to buy that car again, but obviously with the exception that it cannot be purchased as a completed vehicle. If that's what you got to do to get around the Feds, then you do it. If you want a new emission and crash compliant cobra, then buy a viper, except, well, they stopped those as well.

I feel better now.

BTW If someone asks me if it is real, I always answer "NO" . I am tired of talking to people.

Yep. Jaguar did precisely this. Everyone praised them and in the same sentence condemned Shelby. Everyone here loves to hate Shelby. Yet, if he didn't do what he did, this little space and time wouldn't exist. AC would have fallen into the dumpster to be a second Berkeley.