Lone Star: who advertised it in Competition Press?

I always thought it was on a used car lot before it was found before the present owner but now found out it was advertised in Competition Press, the predecessor to Autoweek. I wonder what the price was (I am guessing maybe $7000 to $10,000?) and if anyone has the ad? I'd like to trade some old photos from Shelby American for a good copy of the ad. I wonder how the person bought it--maybe Shelby sold off all their remaining projects, parts and stock and it was thrown in with that. I look forward to the day when the finished car appears at Monterey or some similar venue. I saw it in person at a shop in Hollywood, I think around 1965, must have been there for some temporary repair.

I never heard who the designer was--it's not like the Daytona coupe that was publicized from Day One as Pete Brock's design.

 

So I guess the "used car picture " in Motor Trend was a spoof?

Wow, that's a great ad. Though $15,000 seems high for that time, that's twice the price of a new 427 Cobra back then for a car with no proven record, no portfolio to speak of.
Motor Trend ran a 2 or 3 page story on the Lone Star where they showed at least one picture of it in a used car lot which made me think it was kicking around used car lots . I am not used to Motor trend cracking wise so I didn't realize that was a joke shot (as they have done a few times since with rare cars). So it really did go from Shelby-American to the present owner--which makes it a one-owner car!

I could call the Lone Star the last car developed by Shelby American in the original era but was also this race car designed by Len Terry for Shelby, mid-engined, at least two built, that I saw at an auction in Newport Beach decades ago. Can't remember the name of it, but it only turned a few laps in one race and that was it. Vintage racers tried to sort it out years later. I don't know what the chassis plate said, if it was identified as a Shelby, or Shelby-American or what? That might qualify as the "last race car" built by Shelby. I think of the name "Cougar" but that wasn't it, something close to that, not "Coyote" either.

 

I notice Len Terry wrote a book; trying to find out if this last Shelby race car ...

is mentioned. I don't know if he mentions the losing designs...
it is called



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