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Topic: Carroll Shelby Sues Factory Five Racing
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 43792
From: Saco, Maine
Registered: May 99
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posted 10-03-2000 05:06 PM
   
He is seeking monetary damages along with Ford Motor Company and Shelby American and Venture Nevada of $10 million.He is also seeking to seize and destroy their AC Cobra fiberglass molds. This was reported in the November 2000 'Mustang and Fords' magazine. ------------------
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MLariviere
Moderator Posts: 4008
From: Biddeford,Me.USA
Registered: May 99
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posted 10-03-2000 09:33 PM
Too bad. Probably want to snatch one up while we can!  Do you think they will have an inventory reduction sale? ------------------
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66351stang
Gearhead Posts: 711
From: sayville,newyork
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 10-04-2000 08:46 PM
factory five has been around for awhile,was thinking of a kit myself,since my 66 coupe is almost complete i need another project,funny thing my wife seem's to disagree  but what are you going to do
taking her down this sunday to look at the new mustang g.t  so she is happy  ------------------
ponycar66,have you flown in a ford latley???????
66-COUPE W/351SVO
glad i had a v-8 !!!!!!
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 43792
From: Saco, Maine
Registered: May 99
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posted 10-08-2000 03:02 PM
It's really too bad. I hope they can work it out. Factory Five was the best thing to happen to the Cobra since Carroll himself.------------------
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jkilroy
Gearhead Posts: 1808
From: Vicksburg, MS
Registered: Dec 99
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posted 10-27-2000 07:09 PM
Just an update, Factory Five is fighting this BS tooth and nail. All of the other kit makers are offering to back them in the legal battle, cause if Factory Five goes, they all go.Shelby is desperate for cash and grasping at straws. Too damn bad that he will be remembered for being a bitter old man that turned his back on the hobby that supported his lifestyle. Anyway, his lawsuit doesn't have a chance. For YEARS he has not only endorsed the replica hobby, he would even autograph peoples cars. He can't come along now, some twenty years into this deal, and say, "Woahh up there, this is wrong and you owe me bucks" Thats total BS. Anyway, last time I checked he doesn't own the trademark COBRA, he doesn't own the AC Roadster body style cause guess what, those guys are still in business. Like I said, he is a BROKE, BITTER OLD MAN that is biting the hand that feeds him. ------------------
Jay Kilroy
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"No such thing as a cam thats too big"
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 43792
From: Saco, Maine
Registered: May 99
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posted 10-27-2000 08:34 PM
I'm disappointed in old CS, myself.------------------
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MLariviere
Moderator Posts: 4008
From: Biddeford,Me.USA
Registered: May 99
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posted 10-27-2000 09:40 PM
You know he went bad when he went to the pentastar. ------------------
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The kahuna with the big bitchin' ol' car!
get outta my way,IROC-Z,I'm commin'thru!
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 43792
From: Saco, Maine
Registered: May 99
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posted 10-28-2000 03:15 PM
That's true! This guy is responsible for Shelby Omnis!  ------------------
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74stang2togo
Journeyman Posts: 53
From: Texas or somewhere thereabouts...
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 04-27-2002 10:27 PM
You mean that they actually made a fast MOPAR? That's freakin' unbeleivable! I've actually seen the Shelby Daytona and Charger, but an OMNI? they couldn't/shouldn't have!
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Boss302
Gearhead Posts: 841
From: Coleman, Wisconsin
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 06-14-2002 10:51 AM
if i remember correctly didn't ole carroll make a Shelby Dakota pick-up truck? i thought i remember reading this somewhere.
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MLariviere
Moderator Posts: 4008
From: Biddeford,Me.USA
Registered: May 99
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posted 06-14-2002 11:20 PM
Yes,he did.
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 43792
From: Saco, Maine
Registered: May 99
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posted 06-15-2002 02:57 PM
In '89 they made a Shelby Dakota with a 318. It did the quarter in the high 15s, low 16s. {yawn}It was mentioned in the July '02 Hot Rod. ------------------
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Moneymaker
Administrator Posts: 26513
From: Lyons, IL, USA
Registered: May 99
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posted 06-23-2002 12:30 AM
I can't believe that this thread was started in 2000. ------------------
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ccode67
Gearhead Posts: 2730
From: douglasville,ga,usa
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 06-24-2002 08:44 AM
Ole Carroll lost the suit too.
Said it was not his design to start with, AC made the car, he just modified it.
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Moneymaker
Administrator Posts: 26513
From: Lyons, IL, USA
Registered: May 99
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posted 06-24-2002 01:05 PM
He is doing a lot of stupid things lately. Stories he has told in print and on tape years ago, are now changing to suit what he wants people to beleive. I love what the man has done for us, but he needs a press secratary. ------------------
Alex Denysenko
Co-Administrator and Moderator/ non 65-66 Mustang owner sensitivity co-ordinator NHRA/IHRA/SRA member
NHRA and IHRA SS/LA National Record Holder '00, '01, & '02
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