I'm not Shellby bashing. I just wanted to comment on the deisgn - which I had never taken a close look at before. I wasjust surpirsed how cheap some of the "labeling" and speical luxary packages are on Shellbys - G-d awful! That said, it certainly doed not take away from the adavnced engineering or out-of-this-world collector value of these historic machines. Of course, I wish I could afford to own one.

 

+1 on that. the machines themselves are deffinatly an amazing piece of work. just the interior design side of things leaves much to be desired.

now that i think about it, who was incharge of the design side of the KR? was it shelby himself, with other people, or someone else entirely?

 

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Gotta remember thats a normal mustang interior with some shelby badges and a cougar consle added. Yeah the 68 had the ugliest steering wheel.I love the interior of the 67 more but id still love to drive that car give my left arm to own one.

 

I love the 67 shelby steering wheel and the 67 shelby mustang is the nices!!

 

What are your thoughts on Shelby basically pulling the rug out from under SAAC and sending cease and desist letters? 'Thanks for keeping the Shelby nameplate as prestigious as it is, we'll take over from here'. [sm=badidea.gif]

 

I attended a SAAC meettwice (Charlotte), my first and last. I understand thingshave went back and forth for the last couple of years between Shelby and the higher ups at SAAC. Its a shame they could'nt all get along. Unfortunately when the lure of money is involved, relationships can quickly change. Without SAAC, maybe the Shelby name may not be where it is today. In my opinion, they oweeach other a lot. It would have been a better end result if things could havebeen resolved without an all out battle. Maybe Shelby will sethis club up withall the procedes going to his charity, that would get a "thumbs up" from me.

 

the man has done enough good work in his lifetime i will always be inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

 

Shelby is far from scraping by. He made more money from his Chilli company than he ever did from Shelby American.

 

If it truly is all-original, it will look and drive just like any [other] 40 year old car with similar mileage. Maybe not as good, given its power, overall lack of rigidity, and likely hard use. The engine obviously needs some attention, though doing much more than a tune-up could adversely affect the value. About here you have to decide if it's going to be a car that you'd want to drive or just another investment that you expect to make some money on.

I doubt that you'd be overly impressed with any of the 60's Chrysler Hemi cars either - my Dad has always shopped at the Chrysler stores, mostly at the local Dodge dealer. While the basic styling wasn't bad, the details were nothing special and there was an 'econobox' flavor to all of them (relative to, say, the Oldsmobiles and T-birds of the same era) regardless of thepowertrain.

You do tend to overlook the less desirable aspects of these cars when you're looking through the mists of time and nostalgia.


Norm