roadRacer

I love the picture that was taken at the Shelby Convention at VIR

FlimFlam

I saw your car there. It's incrediably low. What suspension is under it?

Terry@Fortune

hawt

RCR Roscoe

that right there is a *real car getting driven like it deserves to be. HOT

skott

awesome car and awesome pic. I love teh old stangs... matter a fact im gonna send that pic to a friend of mine up state NY. For I know it will be his new desk top.
skott

roadRacer

Yeah, that is my car. There is nothing special about the suspension, usual old school Shelby mods. It has different front springs, Koni's, upper A-arm relocation, rear sway bar. I think that is about all. It also has the Kumho Victoracers (old ones, I want to get some new V710's).

The car is a blast to drive, and we have owned it since 1974. I did get some good laps in the Drivers School on Friday. I was in instructor and felt pretty good about reeling in a few of the vintage race cars. I could never really get much clear track in the open track session. Everyone else was just too slow and they would not let me run in the A group for some reason, even though I was faster than half of the race cars in that group.

We were there with RADRIDE from this list, Bruce Turlington, Dave Redman, and few of the other Shelby locals. RADRIDE broke his transmission and didn't get much track time.

This is Bruce's car:


Our old car ran without a hitch all weekend. I was sort of cooking the brakes so I had to take it easy on the car in that respect.

Here are some photo galleries from the event for anyone interested:

http://www.fandsenterprises.com/photogallery2004.htm (click on the "SAAC VIR June 30 – July 2 2006" links)
http://www.saacgroupmd.com/past_events/SAAC31photos.htm
http://www.thecoralsnake.com/saac31
http://www.nikonians.org/dcforum/DCForumID48/15492.html
http://miraclemustang.com/SAAC31-1.htm
http://www.dcconline.org/20060702/
http://public.fotki.com/JoeGrippo/2006_saac_31_at_vir/

That should be enough to sattisfy anyone interested.

turtle

thats a badass car very rare in convertible and driving that car on track equals nuts the size of dumptrucks ,my dad used to have a yenko nova sad day in my life when he sold it anyways nice car man

00lude

Definitely a sweet car, so is radrides.

roadRacer

We bought the car to run autocrosses with back in '74. I have seen fuel pumps for Shelbys selling on ebay for more than we paid for the car. Since then we have always autocrossed and run open track type events with the car. So to us it is not a big deal to put the car out on the track. That is where it belongs and that is why we have it. If we want to make a "mantle piece" out of the car, we might as well sell it and get something else (which ain't gonna happen).

I think people who own a Shelby and have never put it on a track of any type, just don't understand the cars, and should own old Packards, Model A's, or maybe Corvettes (inside joke to old Shelby guys). If a Shelby has never been on a track, the owner just doesn't understand the car. As you can see from the pictures, we are FAR from the only Shelby owner that feel like this. It is a very important part of the Shelby American Collection (the museum of Shelby cars) that the cars end up on the race track. They is why they had 3 cars there from the museum on the race track, with a collective value of the 3 roughly in the $10 million range. Shelby's should not spend a life in static displays, it is just wrong.

That is my attitude about these cars.

My opinion, and everyone has one (just like body parts, choose one).

roadRacer

I just found this article on espn.com about the Shelby Convention.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...=barone/060727

If you guys think I have big ones because I like to take my car out on the track, check the guys in this article......