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I'm thinking about selling this and need to know if it is a 69 or 70? There is only one small mark on the back.

       Roy

I was surfing the Web and came across this interesting story that was written a few weeks ago that I didn't know anything about before today.

https://www.motorcities.org/story-of-the-week/2023/remembering-ed-hugas-and-the-first-cobra

        Roy

Cart and Indy car racer Gil De Ferran dies from cardiac arrest while driving at a car club track:
https://www.speedsport.com/indycar/ntt-indycar-series/former-indy-500-winner-gil-de-ferran-dies/
Legendary drag racer Roland Leong also passed away today:
https://www.speedsport.com/drag-racing/nhra/nhra-legend-roland-leong-79/

And earlier this week we also lost the great Don Schumacher:
https://www.nhra.com/news/2023/esteemed-team-owner-indy-funny-car-winner-don-schumacher-passes-away

We're losing a lot of Icons and some of us are closing in on the end also so try to enjoy life while you can. Hopefully going out peddle to the metal. Hope everyone has a Happy New Year 🍾🍻🥂

        Roy

I wanted to let everyone know that Bill Maier of Maier Racing passed away on the 14th. Services will be held this Friday morning in Hayward Ca. In case anyone is interested in going let me know. I've know Bill since 1975 when he built my first engine. I know a lot of people in the Shelby and Mustang world knew him and he will be sorely missed by many.

       Sincerely, Roy Richards

I'm surprised FL SAAC didn't post this but it is National Slurpee day at 7 Eleven and you can get free small Slurpees at all 7 Eleven's until 7:00 or until they run out. On a hot day like today it's a great deal. A little late for a lot of you though.

        Roy

A lot of times when I try to post pictures I get a message saying "your attachment has failed security checks and cannot be uploaded. Please consult the forum administrator". I don't know who that is. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    TIA.  ROY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2XFarhnSnU

         Roy

https://youtu.be/OGZuvvNJFig

          Roy

I. Was wondering how many of you have or have seen a complete one of these? The carpet behind the pictures is named Shelby. I bought it at Home Depot for my garage Mancave. Does anybody recognize the top signature? I've forgotten who's it is.

        Roy

How many of you have ever seen one of these.

          Roy 🤔

Does anyone remember this Ephemera?

       Roy

Just found out he passed away last week:

https://www.nhra.com/news/2022/drag-racing-gives-voice-man-who-spoke-us-all-dave-mcclelland-1937-2022

         Roy

I  Just wanted to know if anyone was going to the Diablo Valley Mustang show on June 5th? I will be there for a while checking it out and if anybody goes and would like to stop by I live only a few blocks away and have plenty of beer if you want a cold one or to check out some of my junk. Just let me know and we can arrange to get together. Here is a link to the club so scroll down a bit to get to the information for the show.  It is going to be in Brentwood in Northern California.

https://dvma.org/

         Roy 510-917-FORD (3673)

Great article about the 427 Lemans engine program:

https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/secrets-of-the-ford-427-le-mans-v8/

         Roy

I have known Randy for approximately 47 years and he definitely deserves it. He's not only been helpful to the Shelby community but has been on numerous other forums helping others. He has been to dozens and dozens of events where he has helped in person also. There's probably not a lot of people who have been more helpful to the automotive community than Randy. A lot of you already know this but some don't so again, HAPPY RETIREMENT DAY TO RANDY 🙂🎂🍻🍻🥂🥂

           Roy

Can anyone tell me what this ball goes to?

         Roy

If you click on the link and then click on the person's name above it will take you to probably the largest archive of Shelby vehicles in the entire world at least as far as I know.

https://flic.kr/p/2kMkG4B

     Roy

I have a friend that is looking for an XF-170429. 289  Tach Drive transistorized distributor. If you can help, contact me at

Royrichards@mindspring.com

   Roy