Ken Miles check April '66

Cool !!!!!

 

You can check on the internet for the 1966 calendar, I have the 1964 and 1965 calendars, it may be tough to tell. The closet race was Sebring 1966 which was March 26,1966 when Miles and Ruby came in first with the Mk.II roadster. Miles was instrumental in development testing at Shelby American,so it hard to say how that worked out, perhaps they were paid extra for finishing 1,2, or3rd? Usually it was a flat fee like $500.00, but then you have to take taxes out,. so it would be an odd amount, not a round number. It would be interesting to see how often they wrote checks to the employees, usually it is on a Friday, every two weeks, with checks to suppliers done sporatically, but Shelby American may have been done differently. The dollar amount here to Miles was most than I have seen before, but Sebring was a big race. Even if this was Miles' paycheck for two weeks, that was alot of money in 1966. We may never know unless SAAC has the check registry book and there is a memo for this check. These checks are important for several historical reasons, I had hoped they were at least recorded before they were distributed around the U.S., but I doubt this was done.