Lee Holman vs. Carroll Shelby: Payment Dispute

last stuff i sold you and he said lee don't you understand business that was an old deal i got you in that one this is a new deal you can't let old business interfere with new business what made perfect sense to him because that's the way he did business and i said no thank you and this was for those chassis that he claimed he found in his warehouse that were original real cobra chassis that he really had mccluskey make the year before um but he had certified the d.o.t that those were 65 original real chassis and um i said really we're not going to sell you an engine he said can i get a 390 rebuilt don't they look just like a 427 and i said yeah they look like a 427. and he said well you build will you build me a 390. i said no because you will tell your customers that you paid us for 427 and we cheated you because they'll eventually find out he said the dumb sub [ __ ] to buy these cars could never know the difference but that's the type person he wants and everybody thinks he walks on water his crew chief um al dowd retired and the employees paid for a retirement party for him this was after shelby was closed and shelby showed up at it and al dowd got up it was his turn to speak and said if it hadn't been so much money so much fun to spend ford's money and your money to travel around the world race get the best traction in the country with more money than the other team so we were