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The SHELBY AMERICAN
Summer 2016 16
TRAILER? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ TRAILER
APRIL FOOL’S PRANK ?
Bill Miller of Arvada, Colorado
owns a number of Shelby records that
will never be beaten. His Hertz car,
6S1642, originally saw service at the
Denver airport. In fact, it has never
had an owner outside of Colorado.
Miller is the fifth owner, having pur-
chasing it in 1981. At that time it had
106,750 miles on the odometer. Miller
had the engine rebuilt by the leg-
endary Mike Dopudja, who has pre-
pared many winning vintage cars in
Colorado. The car has a highly-modi-
fied C-4 automatic. That makes it eas-
ier for Miller, who is about to turn 83
years of age. He is usually the oldest
driver in any field he races in. He began running the car in open tracks and vintage races in the Colorado area, but has
driven the car to SAAC-7 (Great Gorge, New Jersey), SAAC-9 (Anaheim, California) and SAAC-32 (Miller Motorsports
Park, Tooele, Utah). He has never owned a trailer; the car is driven to every event and back home again. That, in itself,
is some kind of a record. As of June of this year, Miller has competed in 126 vintage races and 113 open track events
with five more on this summer’s schedule. He figures the car has competed in more than 750 separate races or practice
sessions, and it presently has 221,000 miles on it. If you started vintage racing your car today, and competed in 6 events
a year for the next 35 consecutive years, that would be 2051 and you still wouldn’t come close to Bill Miller and 6S1642’s
record. Our suggestion: choose some other record to attempt to break.
GT350 (6S929) pictured had received
a trick $12,000 paint job that was,
“
Glasurit Mystique bluish paint that
transmogrifies to aquas and rossas
(and countless other entertaining hues
as angles of light change). You should
see it at sunset
.” We have to congratu-
late him on some intense Photoshop
work.
Between the end of March and the
beginning of April we are especially
skeptical of any photo and/or story
that might sound a little “off.” We
should know, because we have en-
gaged in our share of April Fool’s tom-
foolery over the years. We officially
retired after our 2011 effort because
we knew we could never top it.
We’re still amused when others
take a run at hoaxing whoever might
read what they’ve written. With the
Internet they are able to reach a lot
more potential suckers than in the old
days. We saw the above picture on
SAAC member Curt Scott’s www.co-
bracountry.com website. He tried to
convince his readers that the ‘66