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The SHELBY AMERICAN
Summer 2016 95
We don’t always hit a home run.We had
an idea for the convention that we
called “History at a Glance.” We had
small, 2˝ diameter chrome stickers
made that were intended to go in the
corner of a car’s windshield. They iden-
tified the car as belonging to an original
owner, second owner, third, fourth or
fifth. Other stickers identified a car as
being purchased (by the present owner)
for $1000 or less, $2000 or less, $3000,
$5000 or $10,000 or less. They also iden-
tified a car as having its original engine,
having 100,000 or more miles or having
been driven to the convention. We gave
these out at registration and the
thought was that someone would put
one or more of them on their car, and
anyone walking past it would know, im-
mediately, a little about the car’s his-
tory. Some owners took the appropriate
stickers and were happy to put them on
their car’s windshield. But we brought
an awful lot of them back after the con-
vention. It was one of those, “
it sounded
like a good idea at the time
” things but
in retrospect we’d have say that it
bombed. We wouldn’t try it again.