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I met up with Chuck Cantwell recently as I had gotten a new glove box door for my GT350, and I wanted to have him sign it. Rather than send it to him, his son had suggested that I call Chuck and set up a time, and he gladly said to come up for a visit.

So, I drove up to his home in Pennsylvania and had a great visit. I think he really enjoyed it, retelling some of his history with Shelby and a lot of other stories. We talked about his time growing up in Speedway, Indiana, his racing his F/Production MGA, and later an MGB. He even drove a Formula Junior car once.

He told me how he got from Michigan to California to work for Shelby. We discussed the lean first couple of months with Shelby before production started, as well as the amount of development work done by Ford in Europe and Detroit. It was a great couple of hours.

On the way home after our chat, I thought back to a conversation we had a while back about the origin of the GT350 name. He told me at that time the story of naming the GT350, a story that has been retold since the beginning. But he said a lot of the supposed “facts” that have been reported and have become gospel aren’t actually accurate.

Fortunately, Chuck followed up our conversation with this letter.