Dennis Collins car with another mysterious Carroll Shelby Connection. What say you.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mnUn-_wHdjY
Simply astonishing !
As Rod (singer) Stewart would say:
Some guys have all the luck
Some guys have all the pain
Some guys get all the breaks
Some guys do nothing but complain
Woo woo woo
Woo woo woo
Cool story but damn they could of done that show, away from all that street noise .
As usual it starts out "the story is" and goes downhill from there. CS wanted to build his own car not modify someone elses. He wouldn't use a 265 when the 283 was available nor would he cobble up and adapter when Corvette 4 speeds were plentiful.
This reminds me of the 327 Chevy swap we did in a Healey right after high school. We even slid in a Ford 8" that promptly spot the pinion out and oiled down the street. A friend towed us home with his 64 K Fairlane.
Did CS offer swaps at his Dallas Sports Cars? and....... let's not forget CS was not a wrench he hired people for that job.
Did you catch Collins' grasp of history that CS was driving a TD for Donald Healey? I didn't know Healey owned the Morris Garage.
Some talk about this on Club Cobra in 2020.
http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/all-cobra-talk/144289-did-shelby-build-v8-austin-healey.html
Folks, its called television aka 'entertainment'. Facts, we don't need no stink'n facts. I filmed for a ton of this type of automotive television content. Eg: Hot-Rod and Motor Trend TV...its all bs.
What's funny is Dennis finds very cool cars - but for some reason feels the need to tell tall tales. The content is interesting enough without all his "holy grail" nonsense. Dennis is developing a reputation as a lier which in the end will cost him.
Quote from: 427hunter on September 06, 2022, 12:19:02 PM
What's funny is Dennis finds very cool cars - but for some reason feels the need to tell tall tales. The content is interesting enough without all his "holy grail" nonsense. Dennis is developing a reputation as a lier which in the end will cost him.
Thems "tall tales" and worked great for another Texan........
Quote from: 427hunter on September 06, 2022, 12:19:02 PM
What's funny is Dennis finds very cool cars - but for some reason feels the need to tell tall tales. The content is interesting enough without all his "holy grail" nonsense. Dennis is developing a reputation as a lier which in the end will cost him.
Don't you feel it already has? You and I both know there are people we wouldn't believe if they told us it was hot outside on a 90 degree day.... because at the same time out of the other side of their mouth that same person would say "Hmmm 90 degrees that is cool compared to an August day in Death Valley." Comparitive truths and revised history make truth adjustable to some people.
John
Nauseating!!!
Was like watching an episode of fractured fairy tales on the Rocky & Bullwinkle show while recovering from a Kegger. Not pretty.
I went through some of my paper, and these are the only two references I found regarding Austin Healey and Shelby.
The first is a quote from the John Morton book "Inside Shelby American" and mentions Ted Sutton's (who worked at Shelby) Healey
with a small block Ford.
The second, is from the book by Mr. Wallace A. Wyss "Shelby's Wildlife" and we know of the inaccuracies in that one !
Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on September 06, 2022, 02:19:34 PM
Quote from: 427hunter on September 06, 2022, 12:19:02 PM
What's funny is Dennis finds very cool cars - but for some reason feels the need to tell tall tales. The content is interesting enough without all his "holy grail" nonsense. Dennis is developing a reputation as a lier which in the end will cost him.
Thems "tall tales" and worked great for another Texan........
Shelby won Le Mans, Dennis sells jeeps, you might want to modify your position.
Quote from: 427hunter on September 06, 2022, 07:06:13 PM
Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on September 06, 2022, 02:19:34 PM
Quote from: 427hunter on September 06, 2022, 12:19:02 PM
What's funny is Dennis finds very cool cars - but for some reason feels the need to tell tall tales. The content is interesting enough without all his "holy grail" nonsense. Dennis is developing a reputation as a lier which in the end will cost him.
Thems "tall tales" and worked great for another Texan........
Shelby won Le Mans, Dennis sells jeeps, you might want to modify your position.
See now it all makes sense, I made the connection....it's like that Kevin Bacon guy.
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon's Law .... now this is going to get SIZZLING HOT !
Quote from: 427hunter on September 06, 2022, 07:06:13 PMShelby won Le Mans, Dennis sells jeeps, you might want to modify your position.
Take off those rose colored glasses. Shelby was also a car salesman - and we know where they are ranked of the truth scale. Out of Shelby's own mouth he has admitted to telling "stories" to get deals put together and there is an interview with Pete Brock where CS was nicknamed Billy Sol Estes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Sol_Estes
How's your Carroll Shelby Intl stock performing? Close $0.0062 it wouldn't even be performing well if it had been a penny stock.
Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on September 06, 2022, 08:54:59 PM
Quote from: 427hunter on September 06, 2022, 07:06:13 PMShelby won Le Mans, Dennis sells jeeps, you might want to modify your position.
Take off those rose colored glasses. Shelby was also a car salesman - and we know where they are ranked of the truth scale. Out of Shelby's own mouth he has admitted to telling "stories" to get deals put together and there is an interview with Pete Brock where CS was nicknamed Billy Sol Estes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Sol_Estes
How's your Carroll Shelby Intl stock performing? Close $0.0062 it wouldn't even be performing well if it had been a penny stock.
I am sorry life gave you so many lemons - I'll keep my rose color glasses over that any day. It's odd that you have such a low opinion of Shelby and are on a Shelby forum? You think there is no difference between a guy that gave us the cobra and the Shelby mustangs with a Jeep dealer... really?
Quote from: 427hunter on September 06, 2022, 09:45:06 PMI am sorry life gave you so many lemons - I'll keep my rose color glasses over that any day. It's odd that you have such a low opinion of Shelby and are on a Shelby forum? You think there is no difference between a guy that gave us the cobra and the Shelby mustangs with a Jeep dealer... really?
Yes there is a lot of difference between the achievements of the two. And yes you won't find me nominating CS for sainthood and yes I did know him and he was always gracious and generous with me. However I also know how he treated several people who worked for him. (I decided to delete 3 specific instances I had listed here - corner me sometime at a meet I'll tell you the details)
Yes CS built some great cars but having known him for 30+ years I know that all things that shine are not gold.
Never met Collins but he strikes me as a real huckster who can't quite seal the deal.
PS - the only comparison I made between Collins and Shelby was that they were both from Texas and both were/are storytellers.
I see where he is going to buy 3 more Shelbys out of New Jersey. ! is a 69 GT350 evidently in parts and pieces and the other 2 weren't revealed.