Press Release- Rick Kopec retires from SAAC

[computerworks]

Your explanation is not forthcoming in details. You speak in generalities.

THAT is where it is at.

YOU STILL have the opportunity but are dancing around it.


Call it a Convention if you like. Perhaps the last convention, but there is no doubt whatsoever that something has died here.

We're thinking Lilies delivered to the dinner?

My explanation is more than sufficient and accurate for a public forum.

I have answered every email and message from those folks who asked for further explanations... and still will.
Of course, SAAC members are entitled and will get more details than the casual bystander.

Of course, this will not be a last convention... we are already working on SAAC-51

And, flowers are not necessary. Perhaps a donation to your favorite charity??

[computerworks]

50 years is a lot of prior events  bigger than glen ? charlotte, dearborn ?

True... I was refering to this century

[gt350shelb]

50 years is a lot of prior events  bigger than glen ? charlotte, dearborn ?

True... I was refering to this century

well all of those fall into the last 100 years

[shelbydoug]

Your explanation is not forthcoming in details. You speak in generalities.

THAT is where it is at.

YOU STILL have the opportunity but are dancing around it.


Call it a Convention if you like. Perhaps the last convention, but there is no doubt whatsoever that something has died here.

We're thinking Lilies delivered to the dinner?

My explanation is more than sufficient and accurate for a public forum.

I have answered every email and message from those folks who asked for further explanations... and still will.
Of course, SAAC members are entitled and will get more details than the casual bystander.

Of course, this will not be a last convention... we are already working on SAAC-51

And, flowers are not necessary. Perhaps a donation to your favorite charity??

Well Butch and Sundance were planning on going to Australia but they didn't quite make it.

I'll be sitting Shiva. It seems appropriate.

[DC-DD]

I have a stack of these from back in the day.
If anyone wants 1 free  see me at Ford Carlisle I will have a car in building T

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[computerworks]

I have a stack of these from back in the day.
If anyone wants 1 free  see me at Ford Carlisle I will have a car in building T

Dominic... very cool  certainly collector's items.

I need to clarify something, though ... before our troops muster outside with torches and pitchforks.  It's only in this discussion that topics about lawsuits and being sued has been raised, in reference to the thread's topic. 

Let me be clear-->  in no way is anybody suing anybody and in no way has there been any threats of lawsuits or legal actions. Those days are gone.

That subject has only materialized in this topic....not in real life.

[6s2055]

DC-DD
Would love to have a couple! Know for a fact that 1000 were produced and some how lost the 10 or so I had when I moved. Am more than happy to buy even though I paid for the first 1000!

[DC-DD]

I have a stack of these from back in the day.
If anyone wants 1 free  see me at Ford Carlisle I will have a car in building T

Dominic... very cool  certainly collector's items.

I need to clarify something, though ... before our troops muster outside with torches and pitchforks.  It's only in this discussion that topics about lawsuits and being sued has been raised, in reference to the thread's topic. 

Let me be clear-->  in no way is anybody suing anybody and in no way has there been any threats of lawsuits or legal actions. Those days are gone.

That subject has only materialized in this topic....not in real life.

Yes
 I understand these have been laying around for years in years, I didn't have the heart to throw them away. I'm an organized hoarder so I dug them out it's time to give them away.If anybody wants some.

[DC-DD]

DC-DD
Would love to have a couple! Know for a fact that 1000 were produced and some how lost the 10 or so I had when I moved. Am more than happy to buy even though I paid for the first 1000!

Send me a P M  WITH YOUR ADDRESS

[6s2055]

DC-DD
Will "try" to PM you. Thank you!

[Steve McDonald Formally known as Mcdonas]

I have a stack of these from back in the day.
If anyone wants 1 free  see me at Ford Carlisle I will have a car in building T

DominicYou cannot view this attachment.

Save me one, I'll be up there on Saturday with 6S1431

[Corey Bowcutt]

I would like you one. I will be there Friday. What car will you have in the T building so I can find you?
Corey

[Macstang]

I saw a box of them somewhere recently...

[6s2055]

A box? Guessing someone had more made. I started these originally for the help with the lawsuit defense fund.Had 1000 made by a shop in Carson City. At the time thought it was a creative way to raise funds.

[98SVT - was 06GT]

A box? Guessing someone had more made. I started these originally for the help with the lawsuit defense fund.Had 1000 made by a shop in Carson City. At the time thought it was a creative way to raise funds.

They probably ran out of them. At that time CS was suing ALL the kit manufacturers. ALL the parts sellers that were offering repop stuff, They had sent cease and desist letters to ALL the car clubs national and local that were using trademarks he claimed to own. The club letters had a very low dollar amount to obtain a "license" for the name that your club had been incorporated with many years before. The alternative was hiring an attorney. The club fee was cheap - far less than even 1 hour with an attorney. Most knuckled under giving CS a pool of clubs that he could cite as "experts" who were siding with him in his suits. He wanted big $ per kit/part that had been produced and ongoing $ for each one that was produced later. Factory 5 fought the suit and won. Basically the decision stated Ford owned the names (except Shelby) and Shelby owned the trade dress (Cobra shape). The courts held CS had lost the rights to trade dress many years before for not aggressively protecting it when the copies were first introduced. Those that had signed rather than fighting the licensing agreement are still paying today.