i'm a new comer here and wanted to share my first when i was about 10 there was a guy who worked for my parents and dated a neighbor who had a 68 gt 500kr that he bought new i loved this car at first sight i told him when i got older i wanted to buy the car if he still had it seeing i was only 10 i think he kinda blu me off when i was in high school and was about 15 he sold the car to a friend of mine who was older (18) i would see the car at school everyday ,but i new someday i would own one about 6 years later 1 winter night out bar hopping i ran into my friend who told me he was selling the shelby because he was starting a buisness and needed cash i bought it that night and showed up monday to pickup the car i still own this car (20yrs) just finished 3 yr resto love the car and so do my kids joe tassone
My first interaction with Shelby products was sitting a new leaf spring Cobra on the Showroom at Kimnach Ford in Norfolk, VA. It was sitting there on the showroom next to General Douglas MaArthur's Limmo. My parents were there having something done to the Falcon Sprint they owned at the time. I was about 6. The thing that really hooked me on the Shelby's was all the local Shelby guys at the local Autocrosses. We were members of the Beach Ford Mustang Club (my parents had a family membership). The car I particularly grew to love at the time was 5S071 which was being autocrossed by Lee Mathias at the time. Lew Latham drove 5S225, which was rather rough at the time, but very fast. Most of the others were 66's owned by Bruce Turlington (who got fastest time at the first SOA national autocross in 6S1876 I think), Bill Vose (6S1610??), Frank Likert (Car currently owned by David Redmon), David Castle, and a few others. At the local autocrosses the guys in the Corvette's just didn't have a chance back then. My parents were autocrossing an old 64 1/2 Convertible 260 Mustang. In '74 we joined the Shelby ranks when we got our 68 GT350 CV #03082 that we still own.
