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Capitol Region Shelby Club meet? And
didn’t I hurt the transmission drag
racing or towing the car or something
like that?
BINGO! I immediately replied
that it wasn’t me, but it had to be the
previous owner of my Shelby, as I had
been told the same story thirty years
earlier. Secondly, would he sell that
main case back to me? I called him
and we talked a bit and arrived at an
extremely fair price for it. He deliv-
ered it to me at Ford Carlisle a few
weeks later. As it turned out, the case
was undamaged inside (although at
some point an ear had been welded
back on, but it was a nice job).
Brant Halterman confirmed that
the casting and assembly dates were
consistent with when my car was
built. I was floored that the transmis-
sion case had turned up after all these
years – and that it was in the hands of
someone I knew. I was really grateful
to Rob for selling it back to me (and at
a fair price). The odds of finding it
would have been about zero if the cir-
cumstances had been any different. I
probably should have gone out that
night and bought some Powerball tick-
ets, but at that point, I felt like I had
already won the lottery.
The SHELBY AMERICAN
Fall 2016 69