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Chip,

The reason this car has generated so much discussion is because it is a well known car and you represented in your post of 11/20/05 at 8:21 PM that it was "an original matching numbers engine". You then indicated in your next post on the same day but at 11:58 PM that it was possible that the original engine had been found after possibly sitting in someones garage and returned to the car.

The Shelby registry issued in 1988 has for years documented that your car did not have it's original engine and depending how you read it possibly had the block replaced a couple of times. The original block was ruined in circa 1969. For you or anyone to represent that your car has the original engine was simply ridiculous given it's written recorded history.

It is important to note that I was not merely guessing or speculating regarding the history of your car. I was using the Shelby registry and it's written recorded history as a framework for my post on this thread. One of the great things about Shelby's and why they are so vauable is because the registry helps to record the history of cars like yours so that RESTAMPED date code correct blocks don't get passed off as original down the road.

You also originally started this thread representing that the car was "triple black" which also was incorrect.

It seems to me that you may not have even looked at the Shelby registry before you bought this car and offered it for sale at 375,000 dollars on this forum. Because if you had read the history of your car in the registry you would have known what color it was and that the block was not original. You were offering for sale a RESTAMPED engine block without disclosing that fact before I raised the issue. I am not going to apologize for alerting members of this forum and other potential buyers that the car did not in fact have it's "original matching numbers engine" as you originally claimed but which was contradicted in the Shelby registry since 1988!

When I originally indicated that the car was sold at RS I was going from memory from 2001. The fact that it was sold at RS doesn't change the fact that it was sold at an auction AND that the mileage as found on the RM records is less than mentioned in the registry in 1988. Frankly I don't know what difference it makes which auction it was sold at in Monteray in 2001? As long as it was sold in Monteray in 2001?

Finally do not imply that you have made any attempts to contact me for more information because you have made none. If you want to know what parts are on YOUR car get out from behind your computer and walk out and look at YOUR car and write the part numbers down with the date codes and publish them on this forum to set the record straight. Do not blast me or DEMAND anything from me or attempt to put my friends in the middle of YOUR problems.

I assume you have parts on your car if they are original and date code correct the parts will speak for themselves all they need is for someone to walk out and record them.

If you don't know where to look hire your own expert to go over the car for you. You live in the Shelby and Mustang capital of the world in that perhaps more noted collectors and experts live within minutes of your cars location than other areas of the country.

Please note that I have repeatedly stated that IMHO your car would bring a world record price upon sale that it's restoration workmenship was outstanding and is at a minimum a MCA concours gold level car as it sits today perhaps higher. I fail to see how that can possibly be contstrued as a negative opinion regarding your car? The FACT that written recorded history indicates that your car does not have it's original block, is not triple black and was sold in Monteray on August 17, 2001 are not my opinion they are facts.

As other members of this forum including yourself have stated on this thread rumors regarding your car losing many of it's original and NOS parts over the years has followed this car for quite some time. It seems to me that you should spend less time blasting me and making demands of me and more time out with your car with a pad of paper and a flashlight writing down parts numbers and date codes if you think the issue casts a negative cloud over your cars value to put this issue to rest. For a small amount you can also retain an MCA or SAAC gold card judge to examine your car and support the results of YOUR research and finally put the rumors to rest.

And finally it takes more than a check book to put original and NOS parts on your car. It can take years of hunting and much help from your friends and their friends to find them and IF you ever find them then your going to need a fat checkbook IMHO.

This is the end for me on this thread.