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The SHELBY AMERICAN
Winter 2016 79
Jeanes is a well-known automo-
tive writer and raconteur who was one
of the creators of the famed Bolus and
Snopes Racing Team in the mid-1970s.
He has spoken at other SAAC conven-
tions and his tongue-in-cheek style
and masterful use of the English lan-
guage, combined with a Southern aris-
tocratic delivery, makes him one of the
funniest and most enjoyable conven-
tion speakers we have had. His stories
and descriptions had people laughing
until tears rolled down their cheeks.
Also speaking were British auto-
motive writer Trevor Legate and
Cobra racer Nigel Hulme (no relation
to Dennis Hulme). R-Model fabricator
and Trans-Am race mechanic Jerry
Schwarz was in attendance as was
Jim Rose, a Cobra Team mechanic. In
all, it was a very informative and en-
tertaining evening.
Almost 2,000 people attended this
convention. The concours judging was
still a work in progress. In response to
fewer entries due to the difficulty of
finding original items like tires, bat-
teries, wiper blades and other expend-
ables, cars were separated into two
divisions, which we called Concours
Heavy and Concours Lite. The “Lite”
class allowed parts that would nor-
mally wear out be replaced with simi-
lar but not exact replacements. It
would later be described as Division I
and Division II because entrants did
not particularly appreciate the “lite”
appelation, claiming it diminished
their cars. Not worth arguing over, it
was quietly dropped.