CS reactivated his vehicle manufacturers license to build these. They are really the start of his continuation business and not clone/replicas. They built 12, 4 for CS, 4 for Brunk and 4 to be sold to pay for the whole deal. By law they were to get a certain percentage of new parts to qualify as "new" cars. They of course didn't. They were all thrown together hack jobs. I knew a guy working at Shelby's at the time and it took him at least a week on each of Shelby's cars just to get them in a reliable condition.