dwight wrote:
> "Ritz" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]
>> dwight wrote:
>>> "Ritz" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]
>>>> Why not just get a '06 GT and buy the Shelby kit directly from Shelby?
>>>> You'll get all the looks and then you can decide if you want to spring
>>>> for the power and other performance upgrades down the line.
>>> That's heresey. Why don't I just buy used front and back pieces for my
>>> '93 LX, glue snakes all over it, and call it a Cobra? Hell, I "might" get
>>> Cobra performance parts someday, too.
>>>
>>> No, I won't drive a car that looks like something it's not. To someone
>>> who knows what it means, the words "Shelby" and "Cobra" should be sacred.
>>
>> Oh spare me. If it's not going to be a collector car, you may as well
>> make it look the way you want. Nobody said anything about passing it off
>> as a real Shelby. Same concept as all those outfits hawking "Elanor" kits
>> for 60's fastbacks.
>
> So, I can make a regular Mustang LOOK like a Shelby GT500, but I'm not
> passing it off as one... I see.
I said to buy the body kit from Shelby because I like the way it looks.
The idea is not to "copy" a GT500. That would involve a lot more.
>> I like the way the Shelby body kit looks on the new 'stang, but there is
>> absolutely no way I'd consider paying the usurious prices that the dealers
>> are going to gouge from people who've "got to have one." And it's not
>> even a money issue. I can afford a GT500 or even a GT, but it just rubs
>> me the wrong way that the dealers are gouging the enthusiasts who've
>> helped to keep this car alive for 40 years.
>>
>> Cheers,
>
> I'm not one of those internet millionaires. I cannot afford one, unless
> lightning strikes (Lightning being the winning numbers in the Powerball
> lottery). But the fact that I can't afford one doesn't mean that it would be
> okay or even a justifiable protest to slap Shelby pieces on my own car.
*shrug*
A car is a machine, a device, a piece of equipment. If it pleases the
owner to change the way it looks cosmetically, what's the big deal?
> I don't know... Dressing a car up as something it's not, either you get it
> or you don't.
Then you are certainly free to leave your buggy bone stock. There's
nothing to "get" here other than your intolerance of other people's views.
That said, if the local dealer isn't trying to tack on $10-20k to the
price, I might just buy a "real" GT500. It's not the absolute price
that bothers me, but the fact that some opportunist (with Ford's tacit
agreement) is able to pad their pockets at the enthusiast's expense.
Have a wonderful day.
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