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The SHELBY AMERICAN
248 Fall 2015
SHELBY ENERGY DRINK? HECK YES - WE’LL DRINK TO THAT !
A STAR IS BORN
We’ve said it before but we’ll say it
again: if you stick around long enough
Shelby’s name will be on everything.
The latest is the Shelby Twin Turbo
energy drink. Shelby Craft Beer &
Beverages recently introduced their
Shelby-labeled energy drink in a re-
ally slick-looking 8.4-oz. slim can.
Their email press release reached us
too late for us to put the touch on them
to supply us with a pallet or two of
cases in time to pass them out at this
year’s convention, but there’s always
next year. The company is located in
Los Angeles and that’s where they are
presently distributing their product,
but we have the feeling that it won’t
be too long before it goes national.
Imagine the refrigerator in your shop
filled with these cans of Shelby go-
juice! The press release says they want
to promote themselves as “
the social
side of Shelby
.” Sounds good to us. For
more information check out:
www.facebook.com/shelbycraftbeer
These cans are so good looking that we
suspect none will ever get thrown
away. Empties will be lined up along
the top shelf of garages and playrooms
and at some point in the future we’ll
show you photos to prove it!
We may have discovered the beginning
of a male modeling career on the cover
of the new “Ford Small Block Engine
Parts Interchange” book published by
SA Design. We recognize the engine –
that’s easy: it’s a 289 Shelby Hi-Po out
of 5S505 being prepared for some dyno
time. But the identity of the dude at-
taching the starter proved somewhat
more difficult. Fortunately, SAAC has
a member who works in the bowels of
the National Security Agency, running
an advanced imaging computer. We
sent him a scan of the cover and he
was able to isolate the guy in the pic-
ture and rotate the image so we could
identify him. We were surprised to see
that it was none other than Craig Con-
ley, a long-time SAAC member, early
Shelby expert, vintage racer, former
surfer and current owner of Paradise Wheels in the San Diego area. Now you
can add male model to that resume. Asked about his professional name of
“Mike Folsom,” Conley explained that Dirk Diggler was already taken.