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'66 owners packet.....no affiliation !

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/ORIGINAL-1966-Shelby-American-GT350-Mustang-Owners-Manuals-that-came-with-my-66-/114680229283?oid=154321457585

No affiliation ! click top right for english...looks to be some other interesting stuff in the garage in one shot !

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-voiture-collection/ville-de-montreal/1966-ford-gt40/1547100834?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialbuttons&utm_content=vip

Looks like Europe ?

https://www.facebook.com/GentlemenDriversASD/videos/ford-gt-snow/3547219965370070/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos

I think there was a thread on forum 1 on this topic ? I thought I would start a new one, didn't see any thing specific on this forum.

I'll start by posting photos of two Super Coupe models I have, the dark car is a resin 1/43 kit from Automodelli, an Australian

company, the lighter car is a 1/43 built up from Matrix.

The main thing I wanted to know which of these is the correct colour ? It seems to me I have seen photos of the real car in B&W

and in colour, and the shade varies, in some it looks darker, and others lighter, was the 1 to 1 car different shades in its life ?

Is one of the 1/43 models Guardsman Blue and the other Viking Blue, or neither  ? Thanks for any input.

Let's see what you all have in models.

Mike

PS: the dark car needs a second layer of white stripe decals because of bleed through.

Interesting 

I have a couple of photos of that car that are in this video, that I found a couple of years ago on the net.

I wonder if this is a story like the Jim Morrison '67, and will it ever be found ?

Mike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB5ivjXj8lE&t=14s

Internet find, '69 Boss 429 internal Ford invoice, not a window sticker !

Mike

Thanks Bigfoot, corrected

 

https://vintageracecar.com/an-electric-ac-cobra/

I'm just passing this on, no personal interest. Posted about 4 hours ago on the Canadian Motorsport History Group by Mike Matune.

Note that it says  "being represented as" one of three !

This a major project, see photo. Contact info is in the post.

Mike

I thought I'd start a new thread, for letters, telegrams, and other correspondence from Shelby American (other than invoices for

cars, or build sheets) paper related to production changes etc. are good. I believe there has been a lot posted here in a random

manner in other threads. Perhaps it can be compiled here,  What do you think gentlemen ? I'll start with this letter from SA

regarding Dave MacDonalds schedule in the week of the USRRC event at Kent, beginning of May, '64, his last win before Indy.This

was on another forum posted by Rich MacDonald. Pretty cool piece !

Mike

21st annual employee reunion, not sure if this has been here before ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRAr0RlJnYU

Let's see some stuff related to this  How many have one of these ?

Mike

Here's an ad for Carroll Shelby Sports cars, announcing  him as distributor of Listers. 

Mike

Interesting, I knew nothing about this car   

Mike

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/10/20/the-grandfather-of-shelbys-cobra-the-ac-ace-prototype/

This might have been here on forum 1, but I thought I'd post it again, good write up on Remington, Road and Track, June 18th. 2013.

Mike

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a4708/features-magazines-features-the-life-of-phil-remington/?fbclid=IwAR13Um8AQ3bD6HF4O9kIW6LDvXOzt8jBsrKPdQTLbw9knB5LOn03KsVlBzA

Well written.

Alan Mann '64 Tour de France  Mustang    for sale in France (inquire for price) I wonder how deep your pockets need to be for this one ?

From the November issue of Classic & Sports Car.

Mike: (I have no affiliation with this car)

Not sure of where this would fit, here are some images in the link,  of Peter Miles (Ken's son) at Le Mans in a GT40  & Cobra, not

sure when this was ?

Mike

https://www.flickr.com/photos/daphnedouard/albums/72157711564032047/with/48985162096/

Carroll's Pantera.

https://inventory.randluxury.com/vehicles/8/1983-de-tomaso-pantera-gt5-s

Can any one lead me to the thread, or a link somewhere on the forum,  there  where a number of pages of reviews  (by one of the members) of Shelby & Ford books. I came across it the other day, and can't find it now    

Mike

This one is in the June, 2019 issue of the Hemming's magazine, don't know which auction it was, just took a pic of the page of the magazine, before I got thrown out of the store, and told to buy it 

Mike