WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO Shelby Maverick

Inferior Mavericks? most of the Mexicans Mavericks where V8´s... hey, we even had a 1967 FALCON GT: http://www.falcongt.com.au/mexicangt.htm

 

For decades now, Shelby America has been run by company officers other than Shelby. He still has input on some projects but they keep him around and use his name and celebrity.

 

Dont worry T.L. used to always talk crap about anything and everything. He's banned now so that goes to show how "inferior" HE was...... and i know that punk still visits this site. After his attempt at a forum failed faster than Paris Hilton's run for presidency.

 

Does noone remember the thread where a forum member actually asked carol shelby himself about this?

 

Yeah he said he wasn't involved with them. Everyone knows that though. They weren't Shelby Mavericks, they were Shelby de Mexico Mavericks.

 

Fake shelbys? madness i tell ya!

 

Don't know what would make ANYBODY do something like that!

 

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:sorry:

 

"Yeah he said he wasn't involved with them. Everyone knows that though. They weren't Shelby Mavericks, they were Shelby de Mexico Mavericks."

I still disagree with the notion that these Mavericks aren't genuine Shelbys. I'd bet that Carroll Shlby got his dime for every one of those cars with his name on it, including the Galaxies and notch-back early 70's Mustangs they built. Carroll may not have built them himself, but if he authorized their construction and collected a "royalty", then they're his little babies whether he wants to own up to them or not. How many of the cars that rolled out of his U.S. plant do you think he actually built himself?

Some supportive "documentation"

"Eduardo Velazquez who more than twenty years ago went into partnership with a tall, lanky, Texan named Carroll Shelby to produce a car called the "Shelby de Mexico"

"In 1967, Shelby International, S.A. was incorporated with Velazquez and Carroll Shelby as partners."

found here, and authored by Bob McClurg;
http://www.hammar.dyndns.org/~mexmust/articles/i910252.htm

and...

"He proposed to create Ford-based competition cars in Mexico; his friend Shelby agreed to support the project. From that simple agreement came the formation of Shelby de Mexico. Velazquez became the company president and, from 1967 into the mid-'70s, oversaw the production of hundreds of Mexican Shelbys."

from here, authored by Donald Farr;
http://www.hammar.dyndns.org/~mexmust/articles/m88an79.htm

Some people think that the Shelby de Mexico cars are illegitimate, but it's my personal opinion that they're still "blood".

John B

 

Ill read through the rest later but

Although the first production Shelby de Mexico's weren't built until 1967, this car (a 1965 coupe prepared by Lew Spencer and Carroll Shelby's High Performance Motors) can technically be considered to be the first Shelby de Mexico. This car was driven to a class win at the Mexico Toluca Road Race by driver Juan Emilio Proal.

sounds like they just had Shelby motors.

 

What I find interesting is that there are pix of atleast 3 different cars that have claims to being shelby comets, err, mavericks and they are all different. Simular, but different. 1. the pix at the expo. 2. the pix in shelby parts catalog. 3. the cover of the mexican rag. "1972 shelby" That being said I like mine the best!

 

Guess it depended on what parts they could smuggle across the border...

 

Only if those mavs have illegal weapons on them, from what I heard on the news!

 

I still think it is possible that the ORIGINAL MEXICAN SHELBY MAVERICK still exists somewhere, and has been kept locked away.

I did a post awhile back where I had located new information on someone in Monterrey, Mexico possibly spotting a gold one. I had found this by combing through countless pages of facebook pages from Mexico, and then doing a "Google Translate" on the spanish to english.

They may all be long gone...and then one or more may still exist. The best way to find it would be a combination of research of original source info, internet, traveling to Mexico, and other places in person, and phone calling.

Alot of things the world have thought to be long lost, have been found later.

 

I tried messaging those people who ran the Facebook pages but they had little knowledge of mavericks. I've taken 3 trips to to central mexico and i've only seen cars with the dealer shelby parts like hood tachs, Hood scoop and the rear spoiler that's larger than the grabber one..... I've taken about five trips into baja but the only mavericks i spotted were american ones.