shell Valley rises again

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by ROUSHAC

Gee, patrickt and compaq, maybe you two should start building and selling replicas yourselves that are worth more than what it costs to put it all together.

I bet you'd sell a lot.

That's been tried.

[danc30]

From reading thepost PT put up, sounds like they know how to run a business.

Good luck to em
(Wish I was one of those kids....)

5/14/09
Travis and Deanna Roth have recently purchased Shell Valley Companies, Inc. (which included Midstates Classic Cars & Parts and International Wholesale). The new company will be known as Shell Valley Classic Wheels, Inc. Travis and Deanna are excited about their new enterprise in Platte Center, Nebraska. They both went to high school in Bancroft, Nebraska. After high school Travis attended Wayne State College where he played football for two years and then transferred to Southeast Community College in Milford, Nebraska, where he graduated with an architectural degree. Travis married Deanna Johnson in June 1994. They have three children, Anthony, 13, Trent, 11, and Carissa, 6. Travis and Deanna have owned and managed Ideal Wheels in Bancroft since 1995 and have owned Roth Racing Performance in Norfolk, Nebraska since 2004. They look forward to relocating and to the new business challenge. They are excited about meeting and taking care of existing customers and welcoming new customers to the Shell Valley family. Travis and Deanna are pleased to announce that the majority of the former company’s employees remain with the company.

[ROUSHAC]

Originally Posted by patrickt

That's been tried.

[bigmike]

This COMPAQ fellow surely belongs on the club cobra site, because I've never seen SO MUCH venom spread before!!

[RodKnock]

To the best of anyone's knowledge, CSX, ERA, Kirkham, Unique, BDR, FFR appear to be making money, why not Shell Valley?

As for the "cost to build" or "investment" versus the sales price when done, WHO CARES. Have some fun everyone and take your Cobra out this weekend for a ride. Have you hugged your Cobra today?

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

To the best of anyone's knowledge, CSX, ERA, Kirkham, Unique, BDR, FFR appear to be making money, why not Shell Valley?

And what about KitCarsToGo?

[compaq]

I didn't really care about what it cost as i told Dana but i think most people in this are out to milk someone for all they can get but then someone wants to make remarks about how someones pays them for what they are doing.
They had my car for two years and they told me that things didn't get done very fast when you send $100.00 here and there.Basically insulting someone with some of the remarks that were said to me.As far as investment goes
they are sure in it to make money but whether it is a hobby or not i still
don't like to lose money on things.I would imagine most people don't like losing money on anything.Would you put a house that costs $500,00.00 to build
in a neighborhood that is only valued at $25,000.00.I am in the Indianapolis area
and houses sell for $125,000.00 and the area isn't that good.It says the area is only valued at $25,000.00 on the internet.Most likely you won't get your money back.Some people give it though but i wouldn't.As i told someone at this
Everett-Morrison or whoever bought it or whoever they were.If i wanted to throw money away i would flush it down the toilet.I was also told they were
working on my car everyday and if they wre working on it everyday it should have been done alot sooner.

[csx4910]

Its sounds like you have sour grapes and should(if you haven't already ) sell your car and find anew hobby. I can only speak for myself but I bought my car KNOWING I would lose money on it if I ever sold it and 99% of the others on here did, ESPECIALLY in this economy. Companies exist to make a profit but that doesn't mean they are trying to take advantage of people or lie, cheat and steal to make a profit. There have been those that do but I believe it is the minority in this hobby, not the majority. If you are that unhappy, take the loss, sell your car and go find a new hobby.
Ron

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by csx4910

If you are that unhappy, take the loss, sell your car and go find a new hobby.

Uhhh, dry cleaning maybe?

[compaq]

Originally Posted by csx4910

Its sounds like you have sour grapes and should(if you haven't already ) sell your car and find anew hobby. I can only speak for myself but I bought my car KNOWING I would lose money on it if I ever sold it and 99% of the others on here did, ESPECIALLY in this economy. Companies exist to make a profit but that doesn't mean they are trying to take advantage of people or lie, cheat and steal to make a profit. There have been those that do but I believe it is the minority in this hobby, not the majority. If you are that unhappy, take the loss, sell your car and go find a new hobby.
Ron

I did sell it.I didn't have the car as a hobby i built it because you could piece everything together and was planning on driving it.All of the welding
and fitting involved in putting it together tends to be more work then
these companies let on,they tend to exaggerate on the time involved in building them.I wouldn't weld stainless steel that is exposed etc.
Most people call these fun or is suppossed to be fun.Maybe driving them is fun but building them couldn't be.If four people were on it all at one time you might build one in 100 hours or so.This Kirkham Motorsports told me they built one for
charity and had four people on it at one time and it was completed in a
reasonable length of time.One person i don't think could build one completely
from the frame by themselves in 100 hours to completion.I seen where they built a Factory Five Cobra but there was five people on it or so at one time.
It was a Factory Five building school or something where they showed people
how to build one.Not only do they exaggerate about the build time but they also exaggerate about the money it takes to put one together.As far as
building or buying another Cobra Kit Car it is highly doubtful.

[hi-tech cobra]

Originally Posted by compaq

I didn't really care about what it cost as i told Dana but i think most people in this are out to milk someone for all they can get but then someone wants to make remarks about how someones pays them for what they are doing.

Compaq,
I think you should try a Macintosh. You might be happier if your Windoz wasn't crashing so often. Please don't stop adding to this thread, your insight into the cobra hobby is...well...astonishing.

Why don't you build a GT-40 next.