The Shelby American (Summer 2022)

The SHELBY AMERICAN Summer 2022 25 Steve McDonald saw this blue ‘66 GT350 lurking in the background of a recent article on the Washington DC auto show. Wolf Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida advertises “ nothing you need, every- thing you want. ” Their warehouse is packed full of juke boxes, vending ma- chines, signs and other trivia for deco- rating your garage or mancave. Like this GT40 kiddie car, at the very adult price of $15K. The Florida Music Festival in Brooksville, Florida at the end of Feb- ruary had a car show as part of the week- end festivi- ties. Their flier fea- tured a yel- low ‘68 Shelby to help get attention. It sure got Doug Cresanta’s. Steve McDonald spotted this car show flyer and, of course, noted the ‘68 Shelby on it. It is just our imagination or does there seem to be a trend on car show flyers to show ‘68 Shelbys? Two samples are too small to draw a con- clusion from, but this is something we’re going to keep an eye on. Seji Keshi spotted this picture on the Formula 1 Instagram website. Before the Australian Formila 1 race the driv- ers were paraded around the track. ’s ride was a Cobra replica. It wouldn’t have been a big deal for Lewis Hamil- ton. At last report he owned two real 427s. Steve McDonald was cleaning out some old boxes and found this birth- day card drawn by his daughter thirty years ago. Thanks to Craig Helgeland of Camano Island, Washington you can now load your tool box up with Cobra tools. He discovered about six types of pliers on the Knipex Tools website. The latest Cobra diecast is a 1/18 scale 1963 289 Cobra offered by the Hamil- ton Collection. Cost is $119.97 in three payments. Made in China by the finest 12 year-old slave laborers available.