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The SHELBY AMERICAN
Fall 2015 303
Planning for the 2015 edition of
the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Re-
union probably began before the 2013
event ended. It was a tribute to the
Cobra; it had been fifty years since the
original Cobra was completed. Both
Ford and Shelby American pulled out
all the stops to make the event hard to
forget. Before the last Cobra left the
track some people were asking, what
about in two years, when it would be
the 50th anniversary of the GT350? It
was almost a no-brainer. Shelbys were
exciting cars with a large and enthu-
siastic following. The 2013 event had
a special, all-Cobra race where forty
snarling snakes shared the track’s
2.238-mile ribbon of asphalt. Did any-
one doubt it would be possible to at-
tract forty GT350s for an intramural
race? Did Shelby have a Texas accent?
We weren’t there, and we couldn’t
convince anyone who was to file a re-
port about the weekend. So we did the
next best thing: we dragooned a couple
of SAAC members who were all over
the Monterey Peninsula into sharing
some of the pictures they took with
us...and, hence, with you. Think of this
as a scrapbook of the Monterey week-
end. Thanks to Bob McClurg and Bill
Fulk for sharing their pixels.