Re: moss green Eleanor
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: f68yenko</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Not to start a war or anything but, in the nearly eighties when I purchased my 67-68 Shelby GT 500 "Eleanor", I named it "Rigby" for the reason that on the title and the documents it stated "Eleanor", not to mention a chicken farmer new I owned the car. And also, if you look somewhere, you will find that Carroll actually went to court to sue the writers or makers of the movie "Gone In Sixty Seconds" for the writers to the name "Shelby Eleanor"</div></div>
Carroll Shelby never sued anyone. The wife of the late director H.B. "Toby" Halicki of the original movie sued Carroll Shelby and Unique Motorsports. Carroll obtained the trademark rights to use the Eleanor name on cars in a 2002 after filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Notice this is two years AFTER the movie came out. He obtained the trademark rights of the name Eleanor to combine his already trademarked Shelby name to licence them to Unique Motorsports to build Shelby Eleanor Mustangs. It was only about the almighty dollar. Not about trademarking a name he already used in the past.
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