Less than a car width away from the race cars that go past at about 120mph.. exhilerating. Speedfest 2011

Pala Casino hosted a car show, 4th floor of the parking garage, sounds strange, but it's a beautiful background for photos

 If you like this low Cadillac, check out Coddington customized Cadzilla that ZZ Top lead singer and guitarist Billy Gibbons commissioned http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/01/cadzilla.html

 if you like this metalwork, the scroll design, check out the chassis and suspension of the lowrider in the SEMA car show http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/11/majestics-cc-of-compton-have-done.html

Nice double flamejob on the radiator shield and the firewall

If you've got unwanted cobwebs in your brain, it's time to get them blown out... read about the '67 GT350 abandoned in a body shop, along with a Mangusta

7 years of sitting in a body shop, 3 years of getting the body shop owner to sell the Shelby to a new owner, but the Mungusta had to be bought simultaneously.

The rest of the story blows my mind http://www.ifitsgotanengine.com/2007/05/thrice-unwanted-mangusta.html

The auction effect on value when the car doesn't sell

An R model '65 Shelby Gt 350 Mustang has been bouncing from auction to auction and has had bids from 1 million, down to $475,000 and isn't selling. The owner must have wasted a lot of money on auction house fees, and isn't through bleeding money in hopes of selling at a profit. It's going up at auction again this August at Russo and Steele, http://www.russoandsteele.com/press_release.html?prid=97

Car #530.... one of only 35 produced (1 of 25 still remaining) was shipped to Lima Peru on 7/29/66 and raced extensively on the South American circuit. It was the South American Champion in it's class and the Peruvian National Champion in the late 60's.

Raced by purchaser Bratzo Vicich, the car was the South American Class Champion during the late 1960s as well as the Peruvian National Champion as late as 1973. A second South American owned the car and ran it actively until 1980. Returning to the United States in 1984 in the care of George Stauffer, the car has had numerous American owners since and was campaigned with the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association with whom it has a permanent medallion as well as other well-known sanctioning bodies. Restored not long ago by Kurt Vogt of Cobra Automotive and in a museum for a number of years

image from http://vintageperformance-autosales.com/gt350r.html who for an unknown reason is trying to sell the car before the auction

Great Shelby memorabilia in the back of this Shelby GT 500 Cobra Mustang

This is not verifiable, but a Shelby GT 350 #6s966 may have been pulled out of a Kansas garage after 30+ years

This story has issues, but notice the photo of the GT 350 doesn't have the H after the GT 350 on the rocker panel decal, and the story claims it is a GT 350 H rent a racer Hertz car with original paint.

the original story http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/apr/02/rare-1966-shelby-gt350-fastback-found-garage-lawre but Jalopnik has the story http://jalopnik.com/#!5787316/how-a-66-shelby-gt350-was-hidden-in-trash-for-26-years as March 30th 2011 and writes that it's a Hertz rent a racer GT 350 H, and the Leake Auction website has no story to go with the photo gallery of the GT 350 that does not have an H after the GT 350.

The CNN video news clip never mentions Hertz. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/04/06/dnt.rare.nustang.found.kctv?hpt=T2

Shelby Forums says that this will be written up in the Spring 2011 issue of the Shelby American http://www.shelbyforums.com/forums/1965-1970-shelby-mustang-gt350-gt500/13464-6s966-found-shed.html

Images from http://www.leakecarauction.com/index.cfm?id=209&auc_code=SA11&year=1966&make=Shelby&model=&keyword=&color=&search=1&lot=474
I learned about this story from Robert L and his link was to the Kansas City Star article: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/09/2789114/rare-car-found-hidden-beneath.html

The SAAC forum addresses this story http://saacforum.com/index.php?topic=12348.0 and in the thread they state it was orignally a GT 350 H red and gold, but now has a replacement engine as well as a repaint

If anyone knows more about this, or has read the spring 2011 Shelby American, please drop me an email and add anything you can to this story

Thanks to Chad Lawhorn the story writer from the Lawrence Journal for sending me the link to the original article!

The Shelby GT 350 S, first non white GT 350, it was the Paxton prototype. By the time production would have started the idea changed to an option

found on http://www.paxtonauto.com/article.php?id=3

Click on the image for the full size to read the writing, but basically it's a publicity-press release shot in the event that the GT 350 S were put into production, like the GT 350 H (Hertz rent a racer program)

Magnetic Brain turns up another awesome photo, Shelby American hauler with a load of GT350s, wow

http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com

Hear that screaming? Hear the cry of outrage? Yup, they just looked at this GT500 Shelby Mustang Cobra on a junkyard heap of junk cars. The point is

that this should get us fired up, like when Car Craft once had a photo of a Camaro that was being eaten by the jungle slowly... and the submission was accompanied by the phrase "we lost one, but let it be remembered by saving others" (Adam Rosenbaum, Portland Maine)

from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=561

it reminded me of

that I posted a couple years ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-one-will-likely-ever-know-what.html

Hertz Sports Car Club membership card

From http://www.shelbyforums.com/forums/shelby-memorabilia-artwork-posters-model-cars-more/6942-hertz-sports-car-club-membership-card.html

A sunday morning variety

via: http://maycontainawesome.tumblr.com/

via: http://wetnightmare.tumblr.com/

via: http://goodoldvalves.tumblr.com/

Tail hopping 1986 Ferrari 308GTB of Tony Worswick./ Usually rallied in Europe on Tarmac events, it was well suited to the Race Retro stage. The unusual part was that as it took the ‘yump’ every time, the rear of the car would catapult high in to the air, leaving the car in a nose down position. Not unusual if the engine were in the front, but the Ferrari is a mid-engine configuration! via: http://www.sportscardigest.com/rally-stage-2010-race-retro-report-photo-gallery/

via: http://goodoldvalves.tumblr.com/

via: http://goodoldvalves.tumblr.com/

1946 Saab via: http://goodoldvalves.tumblr.com/

new york storm 1910 via: http://xenabitesback.tumblr.com/

No one will likely ever know what happened to this 66 Shelby GT350 Mustang...

Car Craft once had a photo of a Camaro that was being eaten by the jungle slowly... and the submission was accompanied by the phrase "we lost one, but let it be remembered by saving others" (Adam Rosenbaum, Portland Maine) http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/we-lost-one-but-let-it-be-remembered.html

This photo is from a xmas card John Lee got one year, over at http://oleragtop.blogspot.com/

Poway transmissions annual car show

"Pidgin German" dashboard control labels such as Das Glimmerblinken for the light switch, Der Drizzleflippen for wiper switch, Die Warmercougher for choke, Das Schmokegedunka for ashtray, and Der Puttersparken for the ignition. http://www.bugstories.com/viewtopic.php?t=5&sid=91ea60b6a46219a6a37b865d395fc7e6
I love this kind of humor! I first saw it in April at the Coronado car show (last photo of the set http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/04/cool-stuff-i-found-at-coronado-car-show.html ) in this car http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/04/1951-mercedes-170da-in-afrika-corps.html

or in German...
Das Glimmerblinken" (für Lichtschalter), "Das Drizzleflippen" (für den Scheibenwischer), "Die Warmercougher" (für Starthilfezugknopf), "Das Schmokegedunka" (Ascher) oder "Der Puttersparken" (für Zündung).http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/dokument/dokument.html?id=46272808&top=SPIEGEL
One not on this bug is "Der Coolercougherventenflippen" for the vent lever http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=256567

1971 Impala, one of 497,000 made, and I doubt we'll ever see another one again. Strange trunk shape and design though.