Some of you may enjoy this story I came across. Last night I was searching the web for photos from when Lance Reventlow occupied 1042 Princeton Drive (just before Shelby started building cobras there). A photo of what looked like a dark green 65 GT350 popped up. I followed the link to an acoustic guitar forum.
The following info was noted by “mdunn” the current owner; These photos were taken in the spring of 1967. The car is SN# 5s087 painted by the original owner dark metallic green to match his Oldsmobile convertible.
Dunn was a student at the U of AZ. At the time, the GT350 owner lived in another apartment in his complex. The original owner was from PA and would drive it home in the summers. One fall, on the way back to AZ they ran into him in OK. Their route back to AZ took them through El Paso, TX. They decided to take a detour into Mexico looking for some provocative Mexican girls.
When the ’65 GT350s lease ran out the original owner returned it to the dealer for a ’68 GT350. The dealer’s son was the next owner. He had it for a short time before Dunn acquired it. Dunn reported it is still that green metallic color to this day (posted 8/22/2016).
Also in the photo is another GT350 in the original white. It is SN# 5s222 owned by a fraternity brother of Dunn’s. The Cobra was owned by another student John Hornberg. Hornberg’s father was a Jaguar importer in the west.