I was there at the 6th annual Palm Springs Road Races and Shelby Roast NOV 16-18 1990 where the guy had the car on display for the first time in the vendor area. It was a painted chassis and had a new at the time Ford roller cam crate engine on a stand next to it. I had a long talk with him . He was trying to get deposits on future built cars. He hadn't finished the first one yet. It never had a tag issued from Shelby then or ever. A Shelby tag appeared on the car seemingly by magic later. Back in the day rumor had it that CS wanted 10,000.00 per copy licensing fee. The deal fell through when he couldn't come up with the money. I am thinking he wanted 70K in 1990 for a completed car. He didn't seem to have too much Shelby car knowledge and came off like sounding like a con man. I have seen the car in numerous auctions in the past which seemed to be the venues of choice given just the bare minimum of leading details where released and not time enough to research them before it would cross the block. The story was always spun that it was a real Shelby. I always got a kick out of listening to the BS of each owner at the time was spurting out trying to pass the hot potato off to the next guy.