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John Sandford's Prey series character Lucas Davenport had a list of "road trip" songs

I collected them on one trip (those I had, not all) and it was a pretty good mix

http://www.johnsandford.org/listofsongs.html


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On long road trips, the Pink Floyd albums The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon. 

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So, no successes, no audited results, lots of unfulfilled dreams and money going to a black hole. 

A "start up charity" with no published goals for delivery and little hope for sustainability?    Surely thou jests.


I'll leave it at that too.  Your track record speaks for itself.  People now have enough information to make an informed decision.  Hopefully they will keep their donations local where they will do the most good.

PS.  Games sounds like a good way to focus and make a name for yourself without trying to sell others on your unachievable dreams.  Good luck with those.

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Have you tried Go Fund Me ?

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OK, David, here's a chance to redeem yourself.

Post the audited results of your 501c3 corp.  Or links to them.  They should show what you've collected and what you've disbursed.

It is impossible for me to think of funding a "charity startup". But maybe others can wrap their head around it.    The money from these chips doesn't help anyone except to put some unknown, but in all likelihood, insufficent, funds into a bank account.  It's a startup.  Noone is benefitting from these yet.

Even then, the track record of the startup team matters.  You've been at this kind of thing for a very long time.  My guess is you first tried it on Team Shelby close to 8 or 9 years ago, maybe 10 or more.   What is the status of any or all of them?   Has any one of them ever delivered what it was supposed to?  Is any one of them still in existence?   Charity or not, doesn't matter.  Show us one that met its goals and still exists.   The most successful entrepreneurs will start a venture and once it is successfully running hand it to the management team and move on.  Where are your successes?  Just one will go a long way to helping your credibility. 

Spend charity money in your own zip code!!!

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And he's changing the focus from veterans to homeless, but not to just homeless veterans.

So I'll summarize my fears and concerns:

1.  Hawkins' historic attention span means this won't get anywhere. 
2.  Even if he continues, the amount of money raised from all the poker chips he's described is not enough to start or sustain this kind of service.
3.  It will take forever to sell them because of the limited market. (Even if he collected from every GT350, GT500, Cobra owner, there still wouldn't be enough money to start AND SUSTAIN this venture.)
4.  So, where does the money go in the meantime?

Conclusion:

1.  If you want a $5 poker chip with your car on it, have at it.  It's maybe an OK deal.  It might be about cost.  At best half of that goes to the purpose of the charity that will, by his track record, never be fully realized. 
2.  If you really want to make a difference in veterans, homeless or homeless veterans, make your $5 donation closer to home.   Why support Florida when there are people that need help in your own back yard.  And $5 at home is probably closer to $4 for the real purpose (and many will be 100%).

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And now he's selling coins to fund a movie production studio.   It's all on the web site.   There is a difference between "dreams" and "pipe dreams".  Nothing has ever come of any of his ventures, yet he continues to collect money for new ones all the time.  I have dreams too, but I don't beg for money from people in the guise of charity to support them.  Donations for a movie?  Come on, get real.   

This venture needs more money to get off its foot than you will ever raise with poker chip sales, and sustaining any meaningful venture is way  beyond your attention span.  Meanwhile, where does the dgo?

He's been doing this for a long time and we have never ever seen any results.  The statement:

  Once this starts to move, I do plan on using the money to replenish the Chips. 

Is where the truth lies.  Have any of your ventures EVER "moved"?  Until then, what?  Where does the money go to?  A trust account?     Show us.

If this was taken seriously you'd have a whole bunch of people and money in your local area behind you.  Where is their support?    You'd think they'd "be on it like a hawk on a snake"  (Pun intended).

Yet your ventures never raise enough money to get anything really going because you seem to try to fundraise in car forums and facebook but never in your local area which is where the most benefit goes.  Where does the money go???  Show us trust account balances.

Otherwise, it's a scam.   Sorry, but I'll call it like I see it.

Show us audited results.  For this and all the previous incarnations. 

Meanwhile, I hope the moderators of this forum see through it more than the Team Shelby people who let it get out of control. 

Hey, if you want to buy a $5 poker chip, have at it.  But don't expect that anything real will ever be done with your money.  His track record shows it.

The Team Shelby forum tolerated this because they weren't the main stream Shelby folks.  This same post was removed a few days ago from the Team Shelby facebook page where the real corporate moderators do care. They don't want to be associated with it in any way, shape or form. 

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Ask a Registrar / Re: Authenticity question - 06 Shelby
« on: June 01, 2021, 03:06:32 PM »
The "Team Shelby" forum is no longer, at least not right now.  It's return has been one of those "any day now" for several months.   There was an aborted attempt to migrate it to a new platform that failed miserably, along with some party crashers that took it over as their personal facebook page, and so in an attempt to regroup has been shut down.   "Team Shelby" maintains an active on Facebook and other social platforms but those aren't threaded and so don't have any history. 

What 98SVT..  summarizes is correct.  There were no '06 Shelby Mustangs except for the Hertz cars, and while many dealers referred to the "Shelby GT" as a "GT350" that was an attempt to rationalize it against the GT500 what was out at the same time.  The GT350 returned later as a post-title Shelby offering and then was quietly closed down as Ford reclaimed the trademark and had their own offering.

You nailed it when you said "Tribute".  Its tryue value is that of a modified Mustang GT.  Maybe more than a standard car, but not by much given its age and the evolution of the Mustang over the subsequent years.   It's not real or rare or going to fund a retirement program. 

Drive the snot out of it.  You'll think of your dad every time you sit in it!

(PS, I owned two of the Barrett Jackson Shelby GTs.  There were awesome little cars and when equipped with a supercharger had as much HP as then unmodified GT500 of the same time, and handled much better than the GT500 because the Shelby GT came with the upgraded suspension bits.  You could add those same bits to the GT500.  The Shelby GT was maxed out with HP because of the 4.6L3V engine whereas the GT500 had the bigger V8 that was, like the Ford GT, severely underrated and could be brought up to immense HP on the base engine parts.)


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