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to Ocean City, Maryland, or about
driving it to Nags Head, North Car-
olina with a hang glider on the roof. I
tell them about traveling across the
country and sleeping in it. Last sum-
mer I went to my first SAAC conven-
tion (SAAC-40) where it won 3rd in
popular vote. I drove it up to Pocono in
the rain, went on the poker run and
generally had a great time.We plan on
going to SAAC-41 and we’ll drive it
there. This is a car that was made to
be driven.
I have had it at the DC New Car
Show over the past several years in
the Classic Mustang Display and peo-
ple are amazed that I drive it into the
city in February, or even that I drive it
at all.When they find out it was an ex-
rental car and that they could have
rented it in 1966 they are truly
amazed that such a time existed when
you could actually rent one of these
cars. Even today, at a car show and
cruises, I see young people looking at
it, most probably thinking, “
Oh, an old
Mustang
.”
But once in a while you see some-
one with something in their eyes. A
person with that special fire and pas-
sion that lets me know that after I am
long dead and gone, they will be the
keeper of the keys. They will be the
ones driving these cars and telling
others about the fun they have had.
When I see a person like that I call
them over and ask them, “
Would you
like to sit in it?
”
The SHELBY AMERICAN
Summer 2016 78