The Shelby American (Fall 2021)

The SHELBY AMERICAN Fall 2021 21 The magnetic attraction was just too great for Canada’s Yukon Territory res- ident Randy Sands. Seeing the rock star status in SAAC of Master Eagle Eyes Ken Young, Jim Hutchinson, Ted Warren and Tom Dankel was just too much to resist. He was able to keep his nose pressed to the window for only so long. In the past few months he sent us some pretty weird and off-the- wall stuff which we used in the last issue and treated it as his ante into the big time. Will he be able to maintain the momentum? We have to wonder if his flurry of activity was seasonally-related. After all, when winter sets in that far north of the border, people hunker down to wait it out, getting seri- ous about their hobbies. But when the warmer weather liberates Sands from his cabin fever will he still have the dynamic enthusiasm demonstrated by the four other Master Eagle Eyes? The jury is out on that.We’ve seen flashes in the pan before. It’s why there aren’t dozens of Master Eagle Eyes. Randy Sands’ first eagle eye gam- bit is, admittedly a weak one. It’s a glass cobra crack pipe. Where did he see that – on Hunter Biden’s website? For down-home Louisiana country doctor, Ted Warren sure gets around. He was at the Keels & Wheels show at the Houston, Texas Seabrook Yacht Club recently where he saw this scale model of a mahogany Chris Craft “Cobra” speedboat from the ‘50s. Jim Hutchinson was looking through the USPS’s publication Philatelic (2021, 2nd Quarter issue) and saw a diecast ‘67 GT500 offered. We’re guessng that this has some connection to the 1967 Shelby postage stamp that was offered in 2012 as one of five mus- cle cars. The Shelby on the stamp was also blue with stripes and center head- lights. Sands is taking this master eagle eye thing seriously. He found these Cobra battery cables in an ad for a ‘56 Corvette on Bring A Trailer. Guess he thought that’s a place no- body else would look. Warren found a magazine called Automobilia (Vol. 16, May/June 2021) that carried this ad. We googled the address and found a number of cool posters available. We’ve never seen them before. We’ve included them elsewhere in this article. Tom Dankel was watching random clips on Tou Tube and stumbled across “Cruising Van Nuys Boule- vard in the Summer of 1972” and spotted a ‘70 Shelby. Sands was building a basement wall and needed concrete anchoring screws. He went to a hardware store, and there they were! How does this happen?