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The line was crossed decades ago by CS himself.

While he always appreciated kind words and support from "us", the unspoken truth was that he wanted exclusivity like Ferrari had. His intent was never to build a car for secretaries and carpenters.

This latest offering from "Shelby" is just another prime example much like what Ford has done with the Ford GT.

It is about exclusivity and not about us working "pions".


The days of the used race cars like the "Coupes" being sold for the first $2,500 to show up were just an embarrassment and the hope is that no one remembers that or mentions it?


Incidentally is there actually a working "middle-class" left anywhere?

I saw Bob...what's his name...take one up on the rails at Utica with Coleen K at full throttle back in the single digit SAAC convention days. So the thing does go pretty well.

There actually have been two here, "on the street", totally unimpressing the "Lincoln Navigator L" locals by it's totally anti-social, anti-SAAC 'Hot rodder' type owners like me. It goes back truely to the AC Cobra origins of an "MG with the Mumps", but heck it is nicely made and for me too conformist to the "Latea 'Liberals' mind set".

I think that you are "required" to wear a "Sherlock Holmes hat" while driving it?


It is so different from the 427 S/C concept that it seems an outcast in an already  outcast image of 427 Cobra owners as some kind of a four wheel 'Hell's Angels' group which has stuck to me like a rodent 'sticky trap' that when you try to get it off, you just get stuck in it further. For me, at least that image terrifies the would be 'home invasion crowd' into keeping their distances out of utter fear of what perversionary retaliation they could be subject to if the situation ever arose? So be it. It isn't easy being green as Ms.Horn once sang to Hermet.

It's all Shelby's fault. He created all of this and it just won't go away. Simply amazing and something visionaries start but can't always control. The 'Monster' develops a life all of it's own.


Enjoy it. It is a very unique vision...ah, vehicle!

Traction Master.  http://www.tractionmaster.com/

They are the original manufacturers.

I have no idea what a real market value price is for a AX Frua ?

The right hand steer, to me anyway, lessons the value of the car.
I wonder if RHD cars, no matter what make or model, bring less money on average than their counterpart
Florida saac, I too believe it is a very nice design.
There is a Ferrari that was built maybe around 67, that had the same qrts that rise a bit.
This is a 1968 model year car, I wonder if that is a 428 police Interceptor engine ?
John

They are so rare that one can likely ask any price they want and wait it out?

The vehicle description does call the 428 a PI but it isn't really known if it is a figurative or literal description. To some it may matter but if you are not the buyer it is just irrelevant criticism. It is what it is, not what anyone else thinks that it should be.

Design is a relative thing. I personally find the design dated and very stuffy, but so do I on the 007 Aston Martin. Again, that doesn't matter much since I'm not a collector and definitely not in that kind of a market?

There are those vehicles that are rare, unique and likely very valuable but when it comes down to it are not really very good cars and never were to begin with.

Quote from: shelbydoug on May 16, 2023, 02:24:45 PM

There was definitely product identification going on there. The intensity of the races seemed higher then others, bordering on a "suicide squad" or "death wish" race.

They were definitely "impressionable" and one never was the same after "experiencing" one. Permanently brain damaged is more likely closer to the actual result of the exposure.

I have NEVER seen anything since that approaches the intensity. I think that I miss that type of "clarity"?

No participation trophies awarded in that era.  Winning was everything.

It still is but The Trans Am drivers acted more like "Bounty Hunters" and there was seemingly something else going on like relatively big bonus money involved from "Detroit" under the table to the drivers.

Those cars had seemingly "whatever was needed" preparation done to them and considering what theoretically was the point of the class racing, was disproportional to what showed up to race.

Shelby was quoted more then once as saying that he had "little interest in Trans Am racing" but ultimately I suspect that he just wasn't interested in spending that kind of money to field and prep the cars himself for very little return considering that Ford was now a competitor and not his bank.

No, no. He started a Ford magazine in the late '70s or early '80s called "Super Ford".

He would do illustrations like that for the "magazine".

Typical blah blah blah comments and no mention there isn’t a place to mount the caution fan sticker🤣

Jon

I think someone should make up t-shirts with that sticker?

That’s what I have going on. Any NOS senders out there?

They are few and far between. Post a wanted ad. Check Ebay.