In a message dated 1/4/00 9:43:12 AM Pacific Standard Time, Vonski@aol.com
writes:
<< Besides, as I sit at my computer I gaze upon a framed and autographed
Sunbeam
Tiger magazine ad from October of 1964...Ad features ol' Shelby hisself
seated in a Tiger, quoted as saying, "You don't start it-you unleash it!" I
always loved that line. He was involved at the outset-but Ford didn't want
him to spend his time boosting a competitor's product...Rootes thought
enough
to pay him a royalty on every Tiger built, and Shelby thought enough of the
Tiger that he didn't sell his own Tiger, when he liquidated a lot of his car
collection for charity several years ago. >>
Von-
Good points re: Shelby's involvement.
I was speaking more in line with Shelby's activities in relation to
manufacturing or engineering efforts to support the Tiger, subsequent to the
initial feasibility study commissioned by Garrad.
Mike
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