Unique Performance On Hot Rod TV

I can’t believe I haven’t seen this before. It appears to be an old episode of Hot Rod TV featuring the now shamed former company Unique Performance. (Read more…)

Yet Another Rosen Systems Auction Offloads Unique Performance Shells

We all remember the first and second Unique Performance auctions with the aim of recouping the some $1.37m dollars owed to the IRS. Well it seems they still had some of Unique’s shells to part with and managed to auction them off this past week. (Read more…)

Shelby Authorized “continuation” Cars For Unique Performance Customers

We’ve all heard the story of Unique Performance, the once unstoppable company pumping out some magnificent, official, Eleanor vehicles to cashed up customers. Their downfall consumed most of the stories about vintage mustangs of 2008 which included the police investigations into fraud, the use of prisoners to build their cars, the auctioning off of all assets and of course the hundreds of customers who lost thousands of dollars.

However news this week out of Carroll Shelby Licensing is sure to bring some joy to those customers who lost out. (Read more…)

Own A Unique Performance Mustang? Need It Fixed? Look No Further!

If you bought an Eleanor Mustang from Unique Performance, do you sometimes want to give it back? Well you can’t so if you were one of the lucky ones (or unlucky ones) to come out of the whole Unique Performance saga with a car you may have found that the engine overheats or doesn’t make the power it should, or the suspension components don’t work quite right or the car have some other quality issue. (Read more…)

Denice Halicki Wins Dispute With Carroll Shelby Over ‘Eleanor’ Name

It’s been a long anticipated result but now Denice Halicki can breathe a sigh of relief after being handed victory in her appeal to the Ninth Court in the dispute with Carroll Shelby over the names ‘Eleanor’ and ‘Gone In 60 Seconds’. (Read more…)

Unique Performance: Hasty To Give His Side Of The Story Soon!

Historically on this blog I have covered the negative aspect of what has happened to Unique Performance. Most of my posts have been based off media reports and personal accounts which I have trusted without a doubt. But as we all know there are two sides to every story and the Unique Performance story is one I would love to get the other side of. (Read more…)

eBay Find: OCC Unique Performance Eleanor Chopper

We all know that just about all of Unique Performances‘ assets were auctioned off not once but twice but what ever happened to that custom chopper that the guys at Orange County Choppers put together for Hasty and the gang? (Read more…)

Unique Performance Second Round Auction Catalogue Online

The second Unique Performance auction held by Rosen Systems which I posted about last week has finally had it’s catalogue uploaded to the website. Among the 401 items going under the hammer on June 24th are quite a number of body shells in various states of completion. Some 39 shells in fact. (Read more…)

A Second Unique Performance Bankruptcy Auction?

The Unique Performance auction that took place in March raised just over one million dollars to pay off IRS debts but this was no where near enough to compensate the unfortunate customers who had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the time I commented on how the money generated from the auction was no where near enough. But there may be hope yet for those who have lost out with a possible second auction in the works. (Read more…)