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Old 10-12-2015, 05:17 PM
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Default Original Shellby Found in quarry - VIN for sale

I dont collect cars and honestly not into cars at all. I do however enjoy scuba diving and have been scuba diving since 1983. I am a technical scuba diver which means I enjoy the deep, the dark and the ice, the wrecks and the quarries. For years I have hear rumors of an Original being stolen and ditched in a quarry in the Uxbridge MA area. Some years ago a very well off man spent over $16,000 to install a road to one of the quarries and paid a search team to search that quarry, they did not find it. Well there are many quarries in this area and yes by todays access to the first quarry closest to the road one would think that is where the car was, but after doing some research and looking at topo maps from many years past one could see that there was an old driveway into the quarry area, I talked with some older locals from that town that business is in fact digging and one showed me where the old road went, and where the old drive way went in, he also said when he was younger this is where folks would dump there cars. Well I set out to dive this remote quarry and where he said, and sure enough on the first dive I found a pile of cars that had been dumped.. After a many dives and the use of some lift bags to dig thru the pile I found the shellby.. The quarry was heavily shaded and no fish, thus low oxygen levels, bad for the fish but good to help slow rust and decay. Any way the car itself is in very rough shape and I don't believe hoisting it out in one piece is possible. I did how ever find and cut off the VIN number. Its not in the greatest shape but it can still be read. Some one told that this VIN number is worth a lot of money to the right person with deep pockets, I dont know this person, and to be honest I think that tryng to sell this find to the highest bidder is not right to the guys who build kit cars and hopes to have one like the Original. So here is how I would like to sell it to make it fair to all. I am going to raffle it off, I am only going to sell 100 raffle tickets and the cost for each ticket is $500. No one can buy or will be allowed to buy more then three tickets. One can buy a ticket by western union. I have already sold 13 tickets and still have 87 for sale, since I only sold 13 tickets in the past three weeks is the reason for posting this thread in and effect to sell the rest and raffle it off quickly. If your interested please message me. Like I said I scuba dive and dont have an interest in cars so the sooner this happens the happier all will will be
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Interested in a few tickets.I am sure I know a few more guys that would be interested But need to see a pic of the tag. Sent ya a PM.
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Oh, sorry. BTW the quarry is in Uxbridge MA. I live in providence RI, but used to live in Douglas MA, right next to uxbridge till two years ago. my email is butchgood2269@gmail.com because I am not into cars so I really wont be checking this forum for replies or messages. So email is the best and only way to reach me. Thanks guys and good luck
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lol
while you're down there, can u dig up Jimmy Hoffa's skull and james dean's spyder?
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While it would be interesting from a historical perspective to know the details of what you are referring to, the tag you claim to have may be worthless and quite possibly even a liability. There is a good chance the rights to the car still belong to the owner at the time it was stolen or their insurance company. Trying to sell a stolen vehicle or parts of it does not go over well with authorities. Also, some states have laws that prohibit trying to sell an ID tag without the car...
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Gosh....I really wanted to have an original "Shellby"

Only 87 tickets left, Geez I have NO chance at all. And pray tell who bought these "thirteen sold tickets" when this has not been previously disclosed?

Western Union??????....could you possibly have written "SCAM" in bigger letters?
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Oh, sorry. BTW the quarry is in Uxbridge MA. I live in providence RI, but used to live in Douglas MA, right next to uxbridge till two years ago. my email is butchgood2269@gmail.com because I am not into cars so I really wont be checking this forum for replies or messages. So email is the best and only way to reach me. Thanks guys and good luck
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I don't see how the vin tag can be worth much without title/registration. Anyone can buy a blank Shelby/AC vin tag and stamp any number they want on it. If the car is a true original with a CSX vin, that number would eventually become known to the Shelby Cobra community, and I suspect a lawsuit would follow, initiated by the last owner, their estate, or insurance carrier, if it was insured. I think a safer path to follow would be to research the vin to determine its legal status and try for a finders fee or salvage rights to whatever you can bring up.
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Come on guys, don't you recognize a scam when you see one? Well crafted, targeted to a specific audience. Send your money by Western Union. Probably to someone in Nigeria.

Post a picture of the tag to prove me wrong.
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Ned... Thoughts?
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You guys are no fun
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Guys, He hasn't even clarified if it is a Cobra or a Shelby (Mustang) that he is talking about.
Clearly a case of nitrogen narcosis here
Total BS, end of story!
Move on, nothing else to see here...
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Yes, total BS. I emailed him and the reply didn't include any information other than who to send a money order to
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This had me in tears while I read it! Sure beats the hell out of the BS the Evan and Rodknock write.
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I live in Providence RI, just twenty minutes from the quarry.. I dont know cars and dont the difference from one cobra from another.. I am an ironworker by day and currently work on a building in Mashpee MA, down by Cape Cod. On the way home few weeks ago I stopped by a kit car maker just over the bridge off of rt 195 across from a brand new walmart. one guy lead to another guy and etc and that was how the first 13 tickets sold... I dont know how many of those cars were made or sold or where, but I am told there was not a lot of them, should be easy for you guys that follow and are unto these cars to see if one is un accounted for and lost in the 1970 in uxbridge ma
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I live in Providence RI, just twenty minutes from the quarry.. I dont know cars and dont the difference from one cobra from another.. I am an ironworker by day and currently work on a building in Mashpee MA, down by Cape Cod. On the way home few weeks ago I stopped by a kit car maker just over the bridge off of rt 195 across from a brand new walmart. one guy lead to another guy and etc and that was how the first 13 tickets sold... I dont know how many of those cars were made or sold or where, but I am told there was not a lot of them, should be easy for you guys that follow and are unto these cars to see if one is un accounted for and lost in the 1970 in uxbridge ma
The BS has gotten over the top of my boots.

Post a picture of the tag.

Until then noone is going to just send you money.
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The coolest part of the story to me is the raffle ticket idea. First, there is no way to tell how many tickets with the same number might be sold. And second, since no one is expecting to win, no one is likely to call it a scam when they don't win. Very clever.
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Oh darn, I thought I was going to win a vin!
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Cobra diver,
DON'T SELL the remaining tickets!
As soon as my Nigerian prince friend pays me for giving him my checking account number, I'll have plenty of money to buy the lot.
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This had me in tears while I read it! Sure beats the hell out of the BS the Evan and Rodknock write.
I needed that laugh...
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