Check this out if looking to by a KR-SAI stikes again

poboy427 · #1 (**permalink**) 09-02-2009, 07:48 PM

http://www.spokentorque.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=1517

427sharpe · #2 (**permalink**) 09-02-2009, 11:26 PM

HOLY CRUMPLE ZONE, BATMAN!
A $23000 hood?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
I didn't think even Shel' would drive that hard into anybody's rectum!
But a friend who owns a new Supersnake says he was quoted $1500 on the plastic side emblems when his were stolen....had some made at a CNC shop out of aluminum for $200.

Ron61 · #3 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 02:50 AM

I am guessing that this must be one of the new GT-500KRs that he is building. All of those prices are ridiculous. I have looked at a couple here and actually thought about getting one, but if that is the price for minor repairs I don't want anything to do with it. And I have never heard of having to return the parts. What are they going to do with them? Straighten them out and use them on new cars they build.

Ron

elmariachi · #4 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Ron61

And I have never heard of having to return the parts. What are they going to do with them? Straighten them out and use them on new cars they build.Ron

This is an attempt (albeit a bit lame) to ensure that there are no faux KRs on the road. The inflated parts prices and requirements to return damaged parts are all deterrents to keep a bunch of knock-off cars from appearing, thus reducing the value of the real ones. And in the process, SAI benefits enormously.

Ron61 · #5 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 08:26 AM

Ok, that part makes sense, I guess, but for a person that has one to have to pay that much for parts is ridiculous. I know you can't find a 1965 Mustang around here as they were all cloned into GT-350s. Also with the amount of the new ones being built, I think it will be a long time before anyone gets the prices they are thinking about. Also from reading about the various problems they keep posting on the Shelby site, I would be a little hesitant to buy a new one right now. There area few around here and they look and sound great but I see one of them has the cheap vinyl stripes already starting to peel away from the front of the hood. I believe if it was mine I would have them taken off and painted on. I also think the guy told me they were installed by the dealer.

Ron

elmariachi · #6 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 08:32 AM

The first reason I wouldn't buy one because the prices are tremendously over-inflated and they will end up falling like a rock. The second reason is crap like this parts debacle. The last reason is for that kind of money, I don't want to be driving something the captain of the local high school football team, 33 years my junior, is driving. I'll take Dean Lampe's GT-40 thank you very much.

poboy427 · #7 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 08:01 PM

It won't take long until actuaries drive the insurance through the roof. The specialty companies like Hagerty will learn of these costs quick if they have not already.

There is actually a guy that is doing a blog with collected pics of wrecked-new style Shelbys most all of which are totaled.
What's important to remember is this car was just skinned up. So pity the unknowing guy that jumps on a builder-only to get it home and have to tell his wife and maybe his banker that it can't be affordably fixed and it is just a big paper weight.

poboy427 · #8 (**permalink**) 09-03-2009, 10:42 PM

I would like to see someone with cubic dollars take one of the 45 IaCOCCA Mustangs to SAI to see if they would do the $35K Super Snake suspension and the 725 hp drivetrain upgrades. Maybe even some stripes for added insult.

To upstage the chicken farmer's Super Snake version would surely PO the old man.

Cobra Lite · #9 (**permalink**) 09-16-2009, 11:10 AM

I have been following the KR Mustang repair thread with great interest.

Glad you posted the link as I believe all Shelby fans, owners and potential owners should read it and recognize that this is not a one time special condition but rather just a continuation of the typical Shelby greed.

It is so sad that a man with so much talent in many ways is one of the most greedy, self serving men alive. He can be a great and wonderful friend, but if you don't agree with him and/or give him all your money, he will turn on you and most likely sue you. He will long be remembered for what he has done, and to how many people....

DAVID GAGNARD · #10 (**permalink**) 09-16-2009, 07:57 PM

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It won't take long until actuaries drive the insurance through the roof. The specialty companies like Hagerty will learn of these costs quick if they have not already.

What's gonna happen is this will spread thru the insurance industry sooner or later and when that happens NO ONE will insure them, leaving the owners high and dry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Much in the same way many companies are refusing to insure replica Cobras............

David

Excaliber · #11 (**permalink**) 09-22-2009, 10:01 AM

Depending on how your view of the web site displays on your screen the owner of the wrecked GT500KR has responded on page 7. His handle is "The GT500KR Owner". Yeah, he is PISSED!

Autoblog reports that Shelby has lowered the price from $20 or $23,000 (depending on how you calculate shipping, markup, etc) to $9,700. The owner claims that's a lie! By the time the hood is done with markup's, etc. the new price is actually $14,000.

3 or 4 months now, the car still sit's and waits for a resolution to this mess. SAI says the hood was shipped, but offers no tracking number to verify. It seems that the hood was NOT shipped after all. Speculation by the owner that SAI wants the old hood back so they can repair it (bondo time) and send it back (for $14,000). The information does indeed sound accurate, not just rumor.

$630 for the hood pin's, by the way, must be tripple chrome over gold.

gt500bill · #12 (**permalink**) 09-22-2009, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Excaliber

Depending on how your view of the web site displays on your screen the owner of the wrecked GT500KR has responded on page 7. His handle is "The GT500KR Owner". Yeah, he is PISSED!

Autoblog reports that Shelby has lowered the price from $20 or $23,000 (depending on how you calculate shipping, markup, etc) to $9,700. The owner claims that's a lie! By the time the hood is done with markup's, etc. the new price is actually $14,000.

3 or 4 months now, the car still sit's and waits for a resolution to this mess. SAI says the hood was shipped, but offers no tracking number to verify. It seems that the hood was NOT shipped after all. Speculation by the owner that SAI wants the old hood back so they can repair it (bondo time) and send it back (for $14,000). The information does indeed sound accurate, not just rumor.

$630 for the hood pin's, by the way, must be tripple chrome over gold.

The CS of late is out for the almighty dollar and

the public

Wayne Maybury · #13 (**permalink**) 09-23-2009, 12:14 PM

There is a further update. The KR owner had a confernece call with Ford, SAI, etc. The replacement hood is being sent today as it was never sent on Sept 10th as promised by SAI. The owner seems to think that this got moving after Ford got involved but he still doesn't know what the new hood will cost. He has not changed his opinion of SAI at all but he is happy that Ford has stepped in.

I just happened to go onto eBay today and I plugged in GT500KR for the fun of it and was surprised to see so many new KR's listed. It looks like many Ford dealers are going the eBay route with their new KR's probably trying to get as much for them above sticker price, as they can. Some of them are new 08's so maybe they aren't selling all that well either.

Wayne

Wayne Maybury · #14 (**permalink**) 10-13-2009, 06:40 AM

It is hard to believe but SAI has still not cleared up this mess.

I was at my local Ford dealer getting the oil changed in my Explorer last week. While I was waiting, I walked around looking at the new cars. They are an SVT dealer so they had several new GT 500's on the lot. I couldn't help but think of how SAI is screwing around the owner of this KR, even though the Shelby Mustangs I was looking at were not KR's. This whole mess just leaves me with a very bad impression of SAI and Shelby, which is sad.

Wayne

Maricopa · #15 (**permalink**) 10-13-2009, 05:53 PM

How will Schlebly have the bucks to keep suing FFR if he doesn't soak the suckers that still buy crap with his name on it?

Wayne Maybury · #16 (**permalink**) 10-22-2009, 12:26 PM

For anyone that hasn't followed this lately, follow the link in the first post of this thread and then go to the last page at the other site. This is absolutely unbelievable. SAI promised that a check would be sent 2 weeks ago but they never sent the payment and now they are reported to be taking action against those that reported this mess.

Wayne

Wayne Maybury · #17 (**permalink**) 11-27-2009, 07:10 AM

I continued to follow this story which seemed to spiral down hill recently. I went to take a look today and the link to the 500KR thread no longer works. I then tried to go to the Spoken Torque home page and that doesn't work either. There had been some talk of legal action against this web site if they didn't stop posting negative information about SAI, Ford, and this GT 500KR mess.

Does anyone know what happened to this site? Did they get shut down or is this just an internet technical problem? By the way, the owner of the KR never did get compensation from Shelby even though many promises had been made.

Wayne

Ron61 · #18 (**permalink**) 11-27-2009, 07:22 AM

Wayne,

Unless this mess was in court or in the process of a lawsuit being filed how can anyone take legal action against someone for reporting it? I could see that if it was already in the process of lawsuits and etc. before the report was posted. I haven't really followed the thread to much as I normally see enough bad things about the Shelby Mustangs in the Forum on the Shelby site.

Ron

computerworks · #19 (**permalink**) 11-27-2009, 07:36 AM

Don't think it's sinister or legal.... I probed the site (which is still up) and the database pointers are whacked.

Further poke show they've been hacked by a defacer.

http://www.spokentorque.com/forums/

DO NOT poke around on any of the links in the defacement!

Wayne Maybury · #20 (**permalink**) 11-27-2009, 08:07 AM

Thanks.

Wayne