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A friend of mine worked for Warner Bros on Dukes. He was in the transportation shop and built/rebuilt/repaired/junked many General Lees. 

As that was in the days before repro parts for Mopar B-Bodies, the Warner Bros shop guys like my friend regularly raided the local junk yards and pick-your-part lots.  By the end of the show, there were virtually no B-Bodies in parts yards in the greater Los Angeles area with suspension parts and front clips still on them.

Who will be the first guy to pay $200,000? 

Ford is really squeezing the golden goose for all the $$$ it can lay.     

Biggie, I think you need this.  Kiwi would've made one of his own, of course.  Didn't he have a Snap-On car compactor in his back yard?

A paint color change comes to mind, for this cube, or one of the 17. 

Agreed, plus the fact that putting "Racing" on the label means it must be better.

I'm surprised there's not "Racing" toilet paper.

Glad to hear it's at least a non-embarrassment of a movie, from a Shelby car owner's perspective.

Also glad that there's a film that brings Carroll, Miles, et al, into the consciousness of the general public. They deserve the recognition.

But, it would have been very interesting if the old man had been alive during the production, and got to be a consultant, if not a producer.

If Damon actually got to talk with Carroll at length, he probably would have been able to do a better job portraying him. And, it would've been fun to hear about Carroll's comments on everything to do with the film.

Does Damon swear as often and as creatively as CS did?  When I worked for him, he once told me "I want that car as shiny as a kernel of corn up a goat's ass."   That's Carroll.

It's such an early special Carroll Shelby prototype that I 'll bet it's fiberglass!

If that isn't automotive sacrilege, I'm not sure what would be.

Not sure, but he seems to have a few okay cars.

Maybe our super-sleuths Szabo and Richstang can decipher vintage photos of the Whittier and Santa Fe Springs facilities to find out...

Randy,
No problem, I didn't think you were disputing my info.

I don't recall seeing the wide body car. But, it seemed like cars were continually being moved around in the shop, the storage lot out back, and wherever else they could find to park some iron. 

Maybe it was kept at the Chrysler Shelby Development Center in Santa Fe Springs, which pre-dated the Whittier location. (Approx 1982-87 for Santa Fe Springs, IIRC)
Van

I would enjoy seeing that, Pete.  Fun tutorial.

I wonder how much that weighs?

Shelby's assembly line in Whittier CA that built the CSX-T and Shelby Dakota V-8 truck (1988-89) was Shelby Automobiles.

I know, because I worked there. Managed the press fleet and PR. 

There was a Pantera at the facility with a Lotus-head Chrysler 2.2 turbo, and one with the Chrysler V-8. My memory is that it was a 360, not a 340, as the 360 was in production, and the 340 was not.