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As the action at the track contin-
ued, back at the Kalahari the concours
judging was taking place.It started at
8 a.m. and by 4 p.m. some of the teams
were still deliberating. As things were
wrapping up, some conventioneers
were returning from the track and
stopping by to look at the cars one
more time before dinner. The ballroom
had a magnetic attraction; maybe it
was the indoor location, or because of
how the cars were parked so closely to-
gether. Whatever it was, it was magic.
The SHELBY AMERICAN
The pull exerted by the ballroom full of cars worked on just about everyone – Peter
Brock included. His personal favorite was CSX3133, which he described as the finest
Cobra he had ever seen.
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One downside of the Kalahari was the hike
from the hotel’s main lobby and restau-
rants to the convention center. It seemed
like a mile but it was probably more...
An unidentified prankster slapped this
vulgar bumper sticker on the back of
Pardee’s R-Model when no one was look-
ing. If anyone knows anything about this
please contact SAAC HQ. Behavior like
this cannot be allowed to continue.
On Friday, during the concours judging,
there was a long line of concours entrants
pumping coins into the fortune-telling ma-
chine in the hotel’s arcade. They wanted
Zoltar to tell them if their car was going to
win a gold award but the only predictions
they received were about the weather, good
luck, meeting new friends or finding some-
thing that had been lost.
Phil Remington passed away two years
ago; he was 92. He was universally re-
spected by everyone who knew him and it
looked like a book about him was not going
to be written. Former GT40 mechanic and
fabricator on Shelby’s team, Phil Henny
was not about to let that happen. His book
about Rem was completed and he had
copies at the convention, which sold faster
than snow cones in the Sahara desert. Get
one at: www.philhenny.com