Mystery 67 GT-500 #2395

Please keep us informed of how your project.....

progresses as your expedition is quite fascinating!!!!

 

Make sure SAAC gets this info.

 

Either 1 or 2 is going to ruin someones day

 

Good luck. From the pictures it looks like you've stumbled across the real car and are on the edge of a very sticky situation. This exact situation happened to a friend of mine. He bought a shelby body that had been wrecked and the numbers were cut out. He was building a race car so he didn't care. With some research he got the Shelby VIN.

Long story short, my friend called the guy who owns the "numbers" currently on another car. That guy didn't want to talk to my friend who would have sold him the body. He told my friend to get lost. So now, the real car has been rebuilt with no numbers and the other guy is driving a high priced rebody with numbers welded in. My friend is a long time SAAC member and has the whole story documented so future buyers won't get hosed.

My whole point of sharing this is to let you know that you may not get much cooperation from the current owner. If a lein for $180K exists on the VIN, it sounds like a rebody has been done and not disclosed. That will definately ruin somebody's day.

 

"Restoring validity" back to the SHELBY Market?? I was unaware that the market was invalid....?? what was your cause before this one? saving the Whales?? Apparently you either chose to ignore the P/M I sent you or are not aware I sent one to you at all. so I will publicly state that you should quit telling the world your game plan. if you were clever as you claim to be, you would already know that though. this makes me question your integrity...... lets play Devil's advocate for a minute here (Which is what Attorney's do all day long for Money correct??) maybe you or someone you know does not like the guy who owns the car currently registered with this particular VIN. what a unique NIGHTMARE SCENARIO to create for him....go pick up a 67 Mustang Fastback, stripped and create the "Illusion" that it was the Real SHELBY by stamping the VINS into the shock tower and removing all of the FORD VINS. then "Stumble onto this site" the same way you stumbled across this car and create a mild uproar that will undoubtedly not go unnoticed. this can make the actual Owner of the $180,000 car spend untold sums of Money and time to defend his beliefs that his car is the real deal. and unless his car has welded on VIN numbers that match the ones cut out of the car you have shown us in undated grainy photos, your case is very very weak . As a matter of KNOWN and Admitted FACT, You do not even own the shell in question!! Lets try another scenario: For all you know your Boss's "friend" may actually have been the Culprit that perpetrated the "Alleged" Rebody and once he catches wind that you plan to blow the lid off his Crime, the car may all of a sudden disappear from your grasp and be disposed of in the fashion he may have neglected to do in the first place. lets hope you are not welded into the trunk when that happens. From my point of View, I advise you to turn your findings over to SAAC and keep your discussions private. as it is now, "if" and I mean "IF" there was a crime committed, you have made the WORLD aware of it and have given the Criminals time to "Correct" their work if they did not do a good enough job the first time. Secondly, "IF" and I mean "IF" again, the Current Owner of the Legally registered car decides to have his car inspected and it turns out to be just fine, YOU may end up getting a lawsuit for having cost him money and muddying the provenance/Value of his Collector Car! Tread Lightly Mr. Graham!!

 

People have disappeared for a lot less than $180,000

 

At this point of the investigation, you will need to have your Attorney submit a Written request via Return receipt request certified mail. espescially if you become named as a Defendant in this matter.

 

Godspeed Graham, Godspeed!!

 

did you mean Hours or Years??

 

Just read this whole post, been catching up on the posts as I have been busy.

Wow, this is like a murder mystery. Someone may end up welded in a trunk of a Shelby in Jersey.

Maybe Jimmy Hoffa is driving Jim Morrisons Shelby in Moscow under an assumed name with a Chevrolet Vin.

 

You need to join SAAC and then talk to the 67 registrar. Its a small cost for the research and information you'll get and using up his time.

If the Shelby VIN is hard to read make sure you are reading each digit correctly. Misreading one number could change the whole equation. I hope you find you made a mistake. You see misread numbers all the time on ebay.. and they are not anywhere near that rusty.

Now, if you are right about the number, and there is a big dollar car registered with that number you need to find out what cards the lien holder would have in that case. If they hold a note for 180k and the title was signed over by this same guy, they may own this shell too if a judge says so. ...plus the rebody owner may have paperwork saying he is the owner. ...sounds like he does... may depend on ownership trail ...how many owners away is the rebody from this guy with the shell...

In other words, "The Owner", may not be the owner. ...even if that becomes you. If you get in a court battle, you may be figthing a bank legal department (they love billable hours) or the attorneys of some guy that can put down 180K on an old Mustang. I can hear the music from the good, the bad and the ugly now. Get legal advice!

The big dollar guy most likely has Shelby friends that know about this site. Don't let them bury you in a Chevy...