Author Topic: Today in Automotive History - Eleanor goes down PG13 version. 11- 01- 2007  (Read 5352 times)

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Re: Today in Auomotive History - Eleanor goes down PG13 version. 11- 01- 2007
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2018, 06:30:21 PM »
13 gallons of Bondo... in one car?!?!?  Was there ANY sheet metal left?
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Re: Today in Auomotive History - Eleanor goes down PG13 version. 11- 01- 2007
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2018, 06:46:51 PM »
13 gallons of Bondo... in one car?!?!?  Was there ANY sheet metal left?

a true continuation car.....lol
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Re: Today in Auomotive History - Eleanor goes down PG13 version. 11- 01- 2007
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2018, 05:33:26 AM »
It was an eye opening time for the automotive aftermarket industry, that had a trickle down effect in the kit car industry as well. A truly ugly time for well heeled buyers who were sold a faulty bill of goods, with the Shelby name attached, who came out losing hundreds of thousands of dollars of their hard earned money, with nothing to show for it in the end.

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Re: Today in Automotive History - Eleanor goes down PG13 version. 11- 01- 2007
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2018, 11:01:02 AM »
Whatever happened to the main players at Unique?

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Re: Today in Automotive History - Eleanor goes down PG13 version. 11- 01- 2007
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2018, 11:06:15 AM »
Inquiring minds want to know..... ;D

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Re: Today in Automotive History - Eleanor goes down PG13 version. 11- 01- 2007
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2018, 11:29:53 AM »
Whatever happened to the main players at Unique?
   Well Chip Foose designed all that stuff and made off like a bandit, a few went to the Graybar hotel and the rest just seemed to scatter like rats if it was proven to the Feds that they had no real interest in bilking customers funds. I am not privy how the legal proceedings went but what was the equivalent to 10 cents on the dollar went to a few clients. That wouldn't lesson the sting at all but it was a dark time for sure to ride the wave of these cars.

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Re: Today in Automotive History - Eleanor goes down PG13 version. 11- 01- 2007
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2018, 03:20:40 PM »
It was an eye opening time for the automotive aftermarket industry, that had a trickle down effect in the kit car industry as well. A truly ugly time for well heeled buyers who were sold a faulty bill of goods, with the Shelby name attached, who came out losing hundreds of thousands of dollars of their hard earned money, with nothing to show for it in the end.

  They used their "stupid money".


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Re: Today in Automotive History - Eleanor goes down PG13 version. 11- 01- 2007
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2019, 05:19:47 PM »
Whatever happened to the main players at Unique?
   Well Chip Foose designed all that stuff and made off like a bandit, a few went to the Graybar hotel and the rest just seemed to scatter like rats if it was proven to the Feds that they had no real interest in bilking customers funds. I am not privy how the legal proceedings went but what was the equivalent to 10 cents on the dollar went to a few clients. That wouldn't lesson the sting at all but it was a dark time for sure to ride the wave of these cars.

Steve Sanford designed Eleanor. Chip Foose only helped develop the 1:1 body in clay so the parts could be molded.
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Re: Today in Automotive History - Eleanor goes down PG13 version. 11- 01- 2007
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2019, 06:25:53 PM »
read this article and at the very end read the comments

specifically the one made by 1967FASTBACK2000

http://67mustangblog.com/2007/12/unique-performance-ceo-douglas-hasty-speaks/

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Re: Today in Automotive History - Eleanor goes down PG13 version. 11- 01- 2007
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2019, 08:03:02 PM »
Whatever happened to the main players at Unique?
   Well Chip Foose designed all that stuff and made off like a bandit, a few went to the Graybar hotel and the rest just seemed to scatter like rats if it was proven to the Feds that they had no real interest in bilking customers funds. I am not privy how the legal proceedings went but what was the equivalent to 10 cents on the dollar went to a few clients. That wouldn't lesson the sting at all but it was a dark time for sure to ride the wave of these cars.

Steve Sanford designed Eleanor. Chip Foose only helped develop the 1:1 body in clay so the parts could be molded.

Rich,
Just a question...do you mean Steve Stanford?  I knew him, back in the '80s. Nice guy and great car illustrator.
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Re: Today in Automotive History - Eleanor goes down PG13 version. 11- 01- 2007
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2019, 12:01:29 AM »
Now you can get an officially licensed movie car reproduction, just don't call it a Shelby:

https://carbuzz.com/news/you-can-now-buy-an-officially-licensed-eleanor-mustang

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Re: Today in Automotive History - Eleanor goes down PG13 version. 11- 01- 2007
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2019, 07:30:46 AM »
Whatever happened to the main players at Unique?
   Well Chip Foose designed all that stuff and made off like a bandit, a few went to the Graybar hotel and the rest just seemed to scatter like rats if it was proven to the Feds that they had no real interest in bilking customers funds. I am not privy how the legal proceedings went but what was the equivalent to 10 cents on the dollar went to a few clients. That wouldn't lesson the sting at all but it was a dark time for sure to ride the wave of these cars.

Chip Foose designed the Car for "Disney" and made off like a bandit.  He had nothing to do with building any of the Aftermarket Cars.