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Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on March 22, 2023, 06:44:42 PM
In Florida

State bird in Wisconsin.

Old Car Craft and Rodding mini magazines. Get em while they're 25 cents.

Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on March 22, 2023, 02:49:38 PM
#61 is 5R001's number at the 1965 SCCA Runoffs. Since cars showed up from all over the country they were assigned new numbers for the race. 6 was the region - west coast - 1 was where you finished in the region. Mark Donahue got 11 - Northeast #1. He was the closest competitor and almost won until his Firestones rubbed through the sidewalls (on the rear springs) on the high banking. Shelby and Titus knew Donahue was running wheels 1/2" wider and had planned to protest and have him DQed if he won.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_SCCA_National_Championship_Runoffs

I never knew that about the numbers.  I thought they were just random.  Thanks for that information, Brett.

Quote from: FL SAAC on March 22, 2023, 03:21:48 PM
Very nice collection  !

Thanks for orienting the picture correctly, Tony.

Yes. Acme and Exact Detail. Gives me something to think about while working.

Going through my dad's things before we left for Chicago I found these. The number 61 is mine and the Kemp R was my son's which is still missing that rear wheel. The rest were/ are pop's. Now I have a used car lot on my office desk.

Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on March 20, 2023, 01:21:30 PM

Quote from: FL SAAC on March 20, 2023, 01:16:59 PM
As much as we ate anti electric mobile why would anyone move to WHY OMING the name says it all

You want a front seat when Yellowstone blows. When we were there in June a couple years ago we had to buy our grandson a heavy jacket - it was snowing!

I understand we are al finished if Yellowstone blows. Just a matter of lasting a few hours longer if you are farther away from ground zero.

Quote from: Coralsnake on March 20, 2023, 08:14:44 AM
Time to move to Wyoming they have introduced legislation to ban the EVs

That sounds about my plan if things get too drastic.

https://youtube.com/shorts/bycnatk9Ovo?feature=share
Very insidious.

Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on March 18, 2023, 08:03:18 PM
In order to pull this off you'll need to send the glovebox door to SA for an autopen signature

https://www.shelby.com/shelbyfoundation/Commemorative-Signature

It's only $50 now. I guess there weren't enough takers at 100.

Lol! I want out of my way not to have Carroll Shelby sign the glove box on the Hertz

The inchoate crime.

Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on March 18, 2023, 02:39:17 PM

Quote from: deathsled on March 18, 2023, 01:34:16 PM... left it in my grandmother's backyard. .... she gave it away.

I had bought a 28 Chevy and had to store it at my parents (we were living in an apartment with little parking). My dad kept threatening to call the junkyard if I didn't do something with it. I finally sold it. I think he was tolerant of it because he remembered his mom's first new car - a 28 Chevy. Driving at 12 in rural MI wasn't a big deal then.

Great photo from back in the day!

That red 32 (yes red of course) is my first childhood memory. He took it apart in two pieces, chassis and body and left it in my grandmother's backyard. He never put it together again and out of years of frustration she gave it away. When he came by and saw it gone he was furious. By then it was a rusting old hulk. He said he never forgave his mother for getting rid of it. I think seeing that car is where my automotive interest started.

Another artifact. My father in the 1950s with his cherished 32 Ford five window coupe.

Someone was planning something nefarious. We can't have that now. Will make a nice ornament in a frame at least with a Hi Performance Motors business card I have.