The Shelby American (Summer 2022)

The SHELBY AMERICAN Summer 2022 7 You have locks on all your trailer’s doors – probably the biggest padlocks you can find. Big- ger is not always better. Master makes one type of padlock that cannot be cut with bolt-cutters. When the thief sees these he may realize trying to break into your trailer is not worth the effort and will move on to an easier target. Thieves are essentially lazy – if they weren’t they would work for a living and save up to buy a fancy car like you did. Other suggestions are common sense. Park in a well-lit area. Try to get a room where you can see your trailer from your window. Back your trailer in so the ramp cannot be dropped and the car pushed out. Maybe invest in a mo- tion detector that will alert you if it senses movement. If something draws you out into the parking lot at night, don’t go empty-handed. We always traveled with a serious handgun. We have a concealed carry permit in our state and a Utah concealed carry permit because Utah has a reciprocal agreement with 35 other states to recognize their permit and they will issue a permit to someone from any other state willing to take a firearms safety course in their home state. If you’re in a state that does not recognize your permit (like California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc.) we carry anyway (why do you think they call it a “concealed” carry per- mit?) and will take our chances. Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six, as they say. Funny thing, criminals never seem to worry about this. Far be in for us to suggest that anyone break the law, but each individual has to choose their own course of action. Diamond Anniversary Cobra GT40 Tools – They’re Everywhere You knew it had to happen. 2022 is the 60th anniversary of the Cobra, and Shelby American never misses the op- portunity to come out with a special model Cobra commemorating a mile- stone like this. The Diamond Anniver- sary originally commemorated Queen Victoria’s 60th Anniversary on the British throne in 1897. She was Queen from 1837 to her death in 1901. But we digress. For the Cobra Diamond Anniver- sary Edition, Shelby American will be offering ten special models (numbered CSX4521 through CSX4530) with car- bon fiber bodies. They are touting this body as only weighing 88 lbs. and the cost is a traffic-stopping $1.2M bucks. We’re not sure why they are making such a big deal about the weight: a 289 body made out of .040” thick alu- minum weighs 75-80 lbs; a 427 body made of .050” aluminum weighs 85-90 lbs. The car is powered by a 5.0 Liter Generation 3 Coyote crate engine rated at 460 h.p. with an 800 h.p. en- gine as one of the options (above and beyond that hefty $1.2M price tag). Shelby American subcontracts the work to Classic Restorations in Yukon, Oklahoma. They also produce, under license with Shelby American, several models of Shelby replicas including a ‘65 GT350 (powered by a 302 Coyote engine or a 427 crate engine), a ‘67 GT350, a ‘67 GT500, a ‘67 GT500 Eleanor and 289 and 427 Cobra repli- cas (at what seems like a bargain at 10% of the cost of a Diamond Edition). Will they sell ten of these puppies? Each one will probably be built to order, so don’t expect to see a row of unsold cars sitting around on Shelby’s showroom floor. And they’ve got ten years to sell them before the 70th An- niversary rolls around. While transporting AMGT-1 to SAAC-46, the rod that was used to check the GT40’s fuel level was lost. Rex Myers discovered that there was one conveniently hanging on the curtain in his hotel room. It was twisted off, used during the convention to monitor the car’s fuel level, thor- oughly cleaned and returned to the curtain before check-out.