Iconic Motors

[charlie8575]

Dad told me about this, and I took a look at it. The black paint mixed with copper flecks creates some interesting effects, too.

Not a bad-looking car, it has some very neat features. Watch the gas cap. It'll be self-explanatory.

Charlie Larkin

[mrmike]

It looks like an overpriced Shelby 427 Cobra to me. I can't wait to see if ol' Carroll's lawyers jump on top of this guy and shut him down!

[Longbox55]

Nissans lawyers will be right with Shelbys, there's only room for 1 GTR!

OTOH, I do like the paint, headlights are ugly as sin, though.

[Doubleought]

Only trouble with having an Elliott Engine is the car only goes left.

[Joe Handley]

It's interesting and clever, but I can't imagine that Shelby and Nissan will be happy with him though.

[niteowl7710]

If Nissan can claim a copyright (or trademark) it would be to the "GT-R" name, not GTR. In addition there have been 17 other cars and motorcycles that have used some format of GT-R or GTR.

Meanwhile on the other side of the legal ledger, Carrol Shelby was only in contract with AC from 1961-1967. At the time he was only stuffing a Ford engine into an existing car (yeah, yeah it was more complicated than that, but for the simple Cliff Notes version...) AC continued to exist on and off, and (on and off) make a car that to this day still looks identical to the 1960's car. Albeit today it has Corvette motivation (IIIIIIIIIIIIRONY!) If Shelby could sue anyone based on what a car looked like it would be them...but he reached an agreement with them (AC) that allows Shelby to be the only one who can call that format of the car a "Cobra".

Based on the information on Iconic's website they are now in a cooperative agreement to use the AC name with their bloated $600,000 kit car. I don't see anywhere where they themselves call their car a Cobra, just the person who titled the video upload on YouTube.

Edited November 15, 2010 by niteowl7710