According to an inflation calculator on the web, that $35,000 in 1965 is
worth about a quarter million today. Not a bad payoff considering where
CS was in his career at that time......
J. Nichols wrote:
> "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.
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