New Ford magazine in town, recommending it

At the Fabulous fords Forever show I met Colin Date, publisher of legendary Ford magazine. He hails from Grants Pass Or.
His magazine seems to be coming along quite nicely, with issues dedicated to one model or another, like Galaxie in the one on the newsstands now and Thunderbolt before that. Not sure if he ever did one on Shelby but
anyhow here's the
URL for the website

http://www.legendaryfordmagazine.com/

I enjoyed the story most on restoration of an old Ford "dream car" and hope he features more old Ford dream cars now that they are popping up at auctions....Joe Bortz' GM and Chrysler dream cars aren't the only ones worth collecting....

 

I agree on Hemmings magazines; they cast way too big a net

The only thing I don't like about Hemmings and their plethora of magazines is that they keep putting cars in there that I think aren't worth the powder to blow them up-. They have broadened the concept of what's collectable to ridiculous extremes, and waste several pages on ordinary cars that were only used for transportation at the time and then gladly disposed of. What will they do next--the GM X-cars?

They ought to stick to cars that are:

--unusually daring in styling
-normally recognized as muscle cars and/or sports cars
--high performance cars (even if they are sedans)
-hand-built cars

On the other hand Richard Lentinello has set a new standard for well lit pictures.

 

Question for Fairlane owner. re Shelby

I have an ad somewhere from the Sixties, shows a Fairlane
and has kind of ornate hand written type 1890s style headline that says something like "Dr. Shelby's Magic Elixer." And it proceeds to sell various "Cobra" kits that will fit onto a 260 or 289 Fairlane. I think this all was a few years before Olds' ad agency stole the idea with the mythical "Dr. Oldsmobile" and his hop up kits for the W-30 and other hot Olds models.

My question is, was Shelby used in more than one Fairlane ad or was that a one shot deal? It is only significant historically because it shows that, even before the Shelby Mustang, Shelby was a spokesman for Ford for anything they wanted to promote.

I also have a Tiger ad which Shelby seated in a Tiger, headline is something about "unleashing it". I can't remember if that's why Chrysler had already bought Rootes Motors, makers of the Sunbeam, and they had to somehow mention it had a 289 without mentioning it had a FORD 289.

I had a very rare ad that showed Ken Miles and Shelby with a '64 Ford GT and the headline was something about the car being Ford's
"Lab on wheels." Unfortunately I glued that on a cardboard and it wrinkled like crazy....