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[What you think about this ?Do you agree with me or have opposite thoughts ... Let me just know ...]

Hello again...

i still do research on all sites, discover magazines and looking for the little breadcrumbs

on an old Car Life Special Edition Magazine i found a pic i never saw befor ...

Unfortuenally no exact Date was on the Cover ... only Copyright on 1965 was standing ...
so i must do some other research and for sure when the Special Editon is from Car Life so maybe do some
advertisment in his own monthly magazine...

i found several Advertisment for the Special Edition, the earlist was described to found the Special Edition
on 18. May 1965 ...

so the Pic was surley made befor ...

but lets have a look on the Pic ...





i found this very interessting ...

when i looked at this upper pic i am suggesting this one on the backside Carter Ave. Parking lot ...
you can see this Parking Edge bricks on the ground ...
the hole Place is a little bit hectic organised

on the foreground i think there are 2 GT350 R, maybe the first one every made ... the back panels are have this
enlarged darker aera which we all now from 5R001 and 5R002 ...

and on the backside we see the hole lot full of GT350 ... i think this should be the first produced in Carter Ave.
and i think are about 30 - 40 GT350´s

What you think about this ?
Do you agree with me or have opposite thoughts ...

Let me just know ...

Steve: I have that magazine...somewhere. I'll do some digging and see if I can locate it.

Cool photo.

Looks like Carroll's saying: "Here you have to take the inside line to set up for the next corner...and what are you doing tonight, honey?"

Hey guys, I've been away on a 35-day road trip and am finally home and getting caught up.

Steve: Great new thread!  Sorry I missed contributing to everything that you and Richstang and others have posted while I have been on holiday.

The Riverside Raceway official publication was produced by Petersen Publishing Company, as Robert E. Petersen owned RIR in those days. Notice that the cover photo says "Petersen Pub photo."

Petersen was also a good friend of Carroll's. I traveled with them both many times when I worked for each of them...(late 1980s thru early 2000s.)
I wish I could've been there in the 1960s, but I was in elementary school.

Another great job of everything, Steve!   The details are wonderful.

As for this photo, in the background, does anyone know why two or three notchbacks were there?  They look like vinyl top cars.  Or are they convertibles with their tops up? 

Agreed with Mr. Gaines. 

This possibly/probably doesn't pertain to Mustang tanks, but I've been told that on Corvette tanks (C2 and C3) if you use a non-vented cap the gas tank itself can implode a bit as the gas gets used up and a vacuum inside is created.

It's all fun and games until the sidecar passenger eats the riders.

Would love to see photos.

In the late '60s, I had a dark red Cobra big-block slot car, with a sidewinder motor.  My dad took it to his work (Hughes Aircraft, where he worked on the Space programs) and had one of the electrical engineers tweak it up.

After that, it was the fastest thing at the big Revell slot car track in my neighborhood until it inevitably spun off the track or went airborne on a banked turn. Was a lot to handle at speed, much like the real thing.   

Good times.

I highly doubt the shirtless guy at the left is CS.  He was a dapper dresser, after he ditched the overalls.
Slacks with sharp creases, dress shirts and Italian loafers at the races was more his style.

I first thought that photo might be Ford's Romeo P.G., as it's banked more than Dearborn P.G. is.   (I've spent time on the track at both places.)   But, I can't swear to it.   

Looks like a good location for a "barn finds" car show.

I've had better luck selling on Hemmings.com and in their magazine.  Recently sold two big-block Corvettes there.

Boy, I wonder why/how it got a C/D cover?  Slow news month?  Giant advertising buy?

At the very least they should've compared it to a '66 Hertz car.

I also agree with Doug and others who have said the stock Mustang gauge is not very accurate. Especially as old as they are now, and the fact that there aren't any actual numbers on the gauge faces.   Oh no, it's on "P" again.

Kind of like some women I've known in my life who've said something like "its broiling hot outside" whether the ambient temperature is 85 or 95 or 105 or...

this just in;

not edsell, the gentleman pictured is hedley lamarr the famous star from blazing saddles...another picture that should have recieved the academy award...

still 124 days from opening !

I thought that was Hedy Lamarr?

the lovely hedly lamarr (actress) sued mel brooks for using  the name hedley lamarr ( played by harvey  korman) in the movie blazing saddles

she/they settled out of court

They should've cast her in the movie as a character named Hardvey Korman.

A side note to this thread - at the SAAC 44 banquet the gathered were asked to raise their hand if they thought Matt Damon was a good choice to play Carroll Shelby in the upcoming movie - no one raised their hand, silence. 

The room was very full, hardly any seats were available.

Was there a second vote for "who should have gotten the part?"  Like McConaughey?

Speaking of cruising PCH without a sticker on my 65 #81 when I pass a motorcycle cop on my way to cars and coffee. I let off the gas to quiet down the Webber's and I pass him right at the speed limit. I look up in the rear view and here he comes! Damn, he saw that I didn't have the EXEMPT sticker! Luckily I got off with a warning and a "cool car, I've got a red 66 and I'm on SAAC boards too!" Gotta
Love this community!

Was this recently?  I am surprised that a CA police officer would even know (or care) about an exempt sticker on a car that old.
Or was it pchmotoho and he truly did just want to look at your car?