When you get to Carroll Shelby’s age life should be worry free and full of golf, fishing or just lounging around.  Instead Mr. Shelby among others have found themselves smack dab in the middle of another lawsuit relating to the use of the name “Eleanor” from the movie “Gone In Sixty Seconds”. 

The lawsuit names Carroll Shelby, Carroll Shelby International , Carroll Shelby Licensing, Carroll Shelby Engineering Inc, Carroll Shelby Motors Inc, Carroll Shelby Distribution Int. Inc, Carroll Hall Shelby Trust, Unique Motorcars Inc., Unique Performance Inc. and Sanderson Sales & Marketing as Defendants.

The lawsuit was filed October 22nd by Denice Halicki, the widow of H.B. “Toby” Halicki, who wrote, directed and starred in the original “Gone In Sixty Seconds” film in 1974.  Toby created the character “Eleanor” in the original movie and his widow licensed it to Disney in 2000 for the remake.  Denice Halicki is claiming gross trademark infringement on the name “Eleanor” which Toby Halicki created for the original movie.

This is not the first time I have seen her name, I remember reading about her earlier in the year in Mustang Monthly. It seems Denice Halicki has been after Carroll Shelby before with previous lawsuits about this very subject.

To someone like me with no legal knowledge it seems Denice Halicki has a very valid claim to the name “Eleanor”.  We will just have to wait and see what the outcome of this new lawsuit will be.