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It was great meeting you and sharing a table at the banquet.  My wife and I enjoyed your stories about the GT-350.

Just checked out the website.  Great documentation of the cars history(and your family).  Wish you many more years of enjoyment.

Best,

Greek

Hi Greek,

It was great meeting and talking to you and your wife as we shared the dinner table at the banquet. 
Thanks for the kind words about our family car.
Best wishes to you and your wife.

Mark

We had a great time at SAAC-50. Great job, Team.
Here are a couple of photos of 6S289 on DeMattos Road road above the track.

Love this Shelby # 289 beautiful pictures
Always great to see them !

Thanks FL SAAC for the kind words as always.

Perfect VIN number too

Thanks JD. It is an easy to remember VIN.

We had a great time at SAAC-50. Great job, Team.
Here are a couple of photos of 6S289 on DeMattos Road road above the track.

Wow - it has been 2 years since I posted. Today, August 3rd, marks 58 years of 6S289 being in our family. It is also my grandson's 5th birthday. Guess which car is still our grandson's favorite.
The family tradition continues with 6S289.
6S289 at the Hillsborough Concours in June celebrating the GT350's 60th Anniversary.
6S289 looking pretty good for being almost 60 years old - delivered to the original owner on November 5th, 1965.

Today, August 3rd, marks 56 years of 6S289 being in our family. It is also my grandson's 3rd birthday. I have included a new photo of the 3 generations with 6S289. Guess which car is still our grandson's favorite. He gives his thumbs up of approval.
The family tradition continues with 6S289.

Well, it has been over a year since I posted here. We have had 6S289 over 53 years now and we still love our family GT350. In one of my last posts, I mentioned that we just had our first grandchild. He is now just over 19 months old and he loves cars. Guess which car he gets the most excited to see?
One of the photos below shows our family's 2nd (me), 3rd (my son) and now 4th (my grandson) generation with 6S289.
When we open 6S289's door, he climbs right in, grabs the steering wheel and is ready to go through the gears. We may have to help him with the clutch though. 
The family tradition continues with 6S289.

I picked up my Christmas gift this past weekend. It is the European Ford Team Blue jacket, to go with the 1965 Shelby Team Wimbledon White jacket, seen in an earlier post. They are both authentic re-creations from RDLA / OVC. Thanks to Jim Marietta and OVC. I dig these jackets... 

Many blessings !

53 Years. Yesterday marks 53 years since my parents bought 6S289. The (2) Competition Press & AutoWeek key chains in the photo below were given to my parents when they bought 6S289 back in August 1967.
The fun with 6S289 keeps on going.

Oh - I was going to post this yesterday but it was overshadowed by a more important event...the birth of my first grandchild. YES!



Thanks, Mark

Thanks. Many Blessings to you as well.

The banner(s) were a great idea, I love how they came out.

Thanks. It was great to be able to provide one of these banners to the original owner, who we bought 6S289 from over 53 years ago. I got the idea after picking up these banners and working with the person who made them to make a custom one for 6S289.

Such a great story!

Thanks for the kind words. 6S289 is part of great memories in the family...and we are still making those memories.

Mark

6S289 with those bright guardsman blue stripes...

I created a (amateur) video of 6S289 for the Hot Wheels Legends Tour. The video includes walk-arounds and some detail close-ups of 6S289. The link below is for the longer (8 minutes) version of the video.
We are a few weeks away (November 5th) from the 55th anniversary of 6S289 being delivered to its original owner Comp Press & AutoWeek, where it was the daily driver for my good friend, Russ Goebel.

Hope you enjoy the video of 6S289...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scdHGYLqXZ8&t=14s

Thanks, Mark

We had a nice vinyl banner made that shows the high-level timeline for 6S289. We had an extra banner made for Russ (Competition Press & AutoWeek President/Publisher at the time), the original owner of 6S289. He really likes it and has it hanging in his office.



Mark

53 Years. Yesterday marks 53 years since my parents bought 6S289. The (2) Competition Press & AutoWeek key chains in the photo below were given to my parents when they bought 6S289 back in August 1967.
The fun with 6S289 keeps on going.

Oh - I was going to post this yesterday but it was overshadowed by a more important event...the birth of my first grandchild. YES!



Thanks, Mark

Hey Grandpa!  Congrats! I can tell you from experience that it doesn't hurt! 

Thanks Doug. Good for you. I am looking forward to the new adventure.