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But nobody's splained why Shelby looks so blissful....

Those are rave reviews indeed. I'll try again to post the cover

The book is still on their website
https://www.bullpublishing.com/home/shelby-cars-in-detail
for full price. Maybe the seller on ebay thinks someone really wants it bad so they jacked the price. But it's not like they are sold out--they're waiting for copies. If you just want a book for the words and pictures and can take a missing slip cover or a bit of dirt, ebay sometimes lists those used books...

On Bullpublising website it says this:
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Shelby Mustang GT350: My Years Designing, Testing and Racing Carroll's Legendary Mustangs
Sale Price:24.95 Original Price:49.95 SALE
Author: Chuck Cantwell with Greg Kolasa

Format: Hardcover, 9" by 11", 224 pages

Photos: 125 black-and-white and 71 color

ISBN: 978 1 935007 29 6

When the Ford Motor Company needed a new car aimed at the youth market of the 1960s, it created the instantly-popular Mustang. When it decided to turn the Mustang into a true sports car it turned to Carroll Shelby. And when Shelby needed an engineer to develop what would become the classic Mustang GT350 he hired Chuck Cantwell.

In Shelby Mustang GT350: My Years Designing, Testing And Racing Carroll's Legendary Mustangs Cantwell delivers a unique first-hand account of his years at the Shelby American company. Working alongside Shelby and a dedicated team, he succeeded in producing a car that was an immediate success on the race track and an iconic muscle car whose reputation remains unmatched after more than half a century.

When Shelby hired Chuck from General Motors, he got more than an experienced project engineer. He also got an accomplished driver, a three-time SCCA Division class champion in cars that he prepared himself. That background helped Chuck engineer solutions for the Mustang and accurately evaluate them, even in competition. The Shelby GT350 won the SCCA's B- Production National Championship three years in a row, and Ford won two consecutive Trans-Am Manufacturers Championships in Mustangs prepared and campaigned by Shelby American.

On a subject as popular as the Shelby Mustang GT350 fresh, definitive information is hard to come by, but that is exactly what Chuck provides. He shares fresh technical details, never-before-heard anecdotes, and corrects popular misconceptions about the GT350's origins and development. Chuck also covers his work on later cars like the GT500, as well as his critical role with the Shelby racing team in the Trans-Am series. And his month-by-month narrative is supported by scores of photographs (including many rare images from his own collection and those of other Shelby insiders) as well as technical drawings and company memos. Additional background information, data, and details are provided by co-author Greg Kolasa, an automotive historian who has spent decades researching and writing about Carroll Shelby's cars.

Shelby Mustang GT350 is a vivid, fact-filled account of how the man Carroll Shelby dubbed "Mr. GT350" led the effort to create an American automotive legend. It's precisely the book that Shelby Mustang owners and other enthusiasts have been waiting for."

Is the book informative and worth the money?

PS never saw that picture of Shel.He looks blissfully happy....

For instance, how many pages of text accompany each car pictured or is there so little text you could say they are "long captions?" David Bull published more than 100 books. He died as a result of injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident.

Here's David Bull Publishing's promo copy:
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"Shelby Cars in Detail
149.95 ON BACK ORDER
Author: Frank Barrett and Boyd Jaynes

Foreword: Carroll Shelby

Format: Hardback with slipcase, 11" by 13", 272 pages

Photos: 156 color

ISBN: 1-893618-94-3

Led by renowned driver and tuner Carroll Shelby, in the 1960s the Shelby American company created three iconic cars: the Cobra, the GT40, and the GT350. Using stunning original studio photographs by Boyd Jaynes and authoritative text by automotive historian Fran Barrett, Shelby Cars in Detail profiles a fascinating array of cars form the Shelby American Collection, Shelby's official museum. They include the Cobra's predecessor, the A.C. Ace-Bristol; race and street variants of 289 and 427 Cobras; the Daytona and Willment Coupes; the GT40 and innovative, high-tech Ford Mk IV J-Car; and the earlies GT350.

Shelby Cars in Detail presents the chassis histories of each of these fascinating cars, leading the reader through their individual specifications, provenance, and racing performances. Along with such well-known Shelby drivers as Ken Miles, Bob Bondurant, Dan Gurney, and Mario Andretti, the book also shares the racing exploits of fascinating independents, including Bob Johnson, Tom Payne, Dan Gerber, and Tommy Hitchcock.

The individual features of each Shelby car are displayed to even greater effect through the dynamic studio photography of Boyd Jaynes. His immaculately composed pictures reveal the tiniest facets of engines, bodywork, and cockpit components, as well as providing full views of each model."

For some reason the film Ford v. Ferrari was marketed in some countries under other titles, Here's the German version.

I didn't understand why they didn't cast Mathew McConaughey  in the first place as
-he's tall
-he's from Texas
-he has played many a con man, which Shelby was at times when he was getting the Cobra off the ground
-he's been in rom-coms and Shelby had a magic appeal to women

The only thing I worry about  in casting MM is that he sometimes gets too involved in the role as there was one movie here he got thinner for the part and looked scary, not like Mathew McConaughey anymore.

There's plenty of Ferrari and Porsche books written by Americans. Now I realize Englishmen are technically foreigners but they wrote their books in English so their books don't fit my question. What Cobra books can we find from any other country that are not  just translations from the original English. I know there are Cobra fans in Europe and Japan, but where are their books, which they could then translate to English? I am curious to see if they have undiscovered pictures and any new back stories

While researching this question I did find a book i haven't heard of, called REM, about Shelby chief mechanic Phil Remington, by a foreigner Phil Henny (who i think is Swiss) but he published it in English so it doesn't fit my question but I'll still order one. He was a key mechanic on the Shelby team--I know of at least once when his skills in French saved the Shelby team from being penalized at LeMans.

Yes they are still using clay! I tried to research first gen Mustang clays but for '65-'66 there's a problem besetting researchers--they weren't called Mustangs so what name they are filed under is anyone's guess(the example i show is labeled Torino) Others have  a cougar in the grille so that was a strong favorite until near introduction. One funny one I found looked like the '64 Ford GT with a pointed nose, hidden headlamps. That goes back to '62, before there was a GT40! There's also Mustang four doors, wagons, etc, but I only care about ones that were proposed for Shelby.  We can talk price depending in the quality of what you have, or talk about trading for fine art prints (pictures of art available, write malibucarart@gmail.com)

I think the movie made $200 million so far, so must have created hundreds of thousands of new fans. But do they go out to events looking to see original era Shelby Mustangs, Cobras and GT40s or does their interest extend to all the way to 2022 models? Or are the fan groups stratified, some only like the '62-'70 models. some only like the revived Shelby named models in the 2000s and some only the very latest? We're talking more than half a century time span so I don't know how far back the newest fans go in their interest in the marque.

Several months were skipped during the pandemic.

It is more of  pop-up show, with no announcements so you never know for sure if it's gonna happen.

Warning bout the parking lot. You are issued a parking card when you enter. If you leave within two hours it's $10 or $12 (can't remember). But if you leave one minute past, it's $30! "How can they do that?" I hear you asking. It's then you find out it's not a public  beach but a private beach/trailer park/restaurant who can do whatever they damn well please.

I don't have a picture of it but in the b & w picture I saw it was a medium color car with a full width plexiglass racing windscreen about 6" tall, no metal frame on top , can't remember if it had metal support on the sides. It's a front 3/4 view I saw so can't remember if I saw side vents. Now my question is--from sources read long ago and forgotten, one story said Ford received an early car and one engineer spent 3 days trying to set up suspension. A second story i heard more recently is Ford bought three 260 Cobras and Ford engineers spent several days recommending off the shelf parts to correct problems they saw in the car. The only trouble with that second story is the second,  third and fourth Cobras went to Shelby's first dealer, Ed Hugus,  so is he the one that sold or loaned them to Ford? The reason I think the car was at Ford's Dearborn test track is I recognize that curvy (think snake from top view) brick wall is one I climbed to shoot a spy picture.

I think there were two of them because I have seen pictures of two headlight treatments. One was dark blue with a saddle tan interior.The question is if Shelby placed  the order with Ghia why was there no subsequent publicity? The answer might be that DeTomaso, his erstwhile buddy, was buying Ghia and might have hoped Ford would order  it, But then Shelby and DeTomaso soured on each other so Shelby didn't want to champion him. But contradicting that is the display of  a Mangusta at Ford wearing the grille badge Shelby Mk.V so it's possible those two collaborated more than once how to get into Ford's pocketbook.