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front of us was NOT going, we pro-
ceeded to have some fun and take the
long way to the convention center.
With 500 horsepower on tap, I’m
pretty sure we still arrived a lot ear-
lier than that truck and trailer.
Saturday was car show day and I
still can’t get over how many Hertz
Shelbys were there together. I was
particularly surprised that with over
a dozen ‘66 cars, every one of them was
black. Of course all the ‘06 and ‘16
Hertz cars were black but parking on
the dusty gravel...well, they didn’t stay
very black for very long. There were
some pretty incredible cars in the
show and I’m very happy that I was
able to make the 50th Anniversary cel-
ebration event. I’ll remember it for a
long time.
The SHELBY AMERICAN
Summer 2016 69
$1047.00
$349/day x 3 days
$ 118.19
Concession Fee/Recovery (reimburses Hertz for concession fees
paid to the airport)
$ 28.24
Motor Vehicle Location Tax & Customer Facility Charge (imposed
by airport in addition to the Concession Fee/Recovery
$ 239.44
Tax
$ 269.97
Loss Damage Waiver (insurance)
$ 41.85
Liability Insurance Supplement
-$25.00
Discount negotiated by the renter
$1719.69
Total
SAAC member Doug Protz thought he would make this convention a
memorable one so he rented a 2016 Shelby GT-H in Chicago and drove it to
Mid-Ohio as part of a caravan organized by Troy Kruger. In all, six Hertz
cars (one ‘66, four 2006s and one 2016 along with a ‘65 Mustang R-Model
clone) made the six and a half-hour, 275-mile trip. They kept the speeds to
60 mph in deference to the ‘66 GT350H. Its 3.89 gears would have had the
engine working overtime if they had kicked it up to 70mph.
The cost for the weekend? $1719.69 ($2234.05 Canadian). Was it worth
flying from Calgary to Chicago and renting the car? Absolutely. It cost
$573.23 a day and Prost said he would definitely do it again. Without in-
tending it, he gave one ‘16 Hertz car some additional history. Fifty years
from now somebody will be including car # 079 in their talk at a convention.
The Cost of a Memory