To add more to this silly debate.
The office Carroll Shelby club has a registry. It includes the Tiger -
http://registry.teamshelby.com/register_new.asp
The below notice tells it all.
"Copyright <http://www.shelbyautos.com> C Shelby Automobiles, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This program and its contents are for the exclusive
and confidential use of Shelby Automobiles. Under no circumstances shall any
of the contents of this program be shared with any outside agency without
the express written consent of Shelby management. Use of this program
constitutes your consent to this policy."
Whataboutthat?
Duke
B382002037
From: J. Nichols [mailto:jxnichols@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 17:14
To: tigers@autox.team.net
Cc: michael king; wsamouce@kc.rr.com
Subject: The Cost Of Shelby
"i have to side with the guys who said "no" to having you in the Shelby
class.. .. he was involved in the prototype and in an early racing
example... he
doesn't really have much to do with the production cars and pushing the
point makes you look like a Shelby want to be... enjoy the car for what it
is,, not some tenuous link to some guy who hot rodded other peoples
creations."
"Carroll was also paid a royalty for every Tiger sold."
That is correct, Shelby didn't build production cars and he was paid $5.00
per Tiger built by Rootes. Doing the math that comes out to 7067(cars
built) x $5.00/car = $35,335 in 1960's dollars. Plus, add in the $10,000 or
so for the prototype and whatever it cost for the race car. It appears
Shelby made some money off of Rootes. My guess is that the Shelby club had
no idea Rootes was paying Shelby royalties for each Tiger.
Jeff
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