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Quote from: 67 GT350 on January 17, 2022, 11:30:17 AM
That website is cool, I need a large size something to fit in a stairwell, I think I will be shopping.....If I however see another "elenor" I will scream!

If you're looking to have one of your own cars painted with you in it, I highly recommend Ruben Duran out of California.  He did my artwork showing my Hertz in the deserts of California.  This painting is done by hand, no computers used.  This guy is a real artist and he created my own Dorian Gray for me.  I attach it again (as I have done on many of my threads before)  I get no fee for the referral.  I have no proverbial dog in the fight.  I do, however, like to see artists thrive, hence the suggestion.
You can find his work and contact info on fineartamerica.com

I attach four photos so you can see how he developed it.  I merely sent in a clear photograph and told him...immortalize me in the California Desert.  I titled the work Desert Rental and he made me a custom plaque bearing that very title.  Over the moon on what he did.  I started out looking for a James Dean painting showing Dean driving his 550 Spyder.  That painting sold.  So I figured, why have him paint Dean in his Porsche when I can have myself painted in an equally cool car that I own.  So that was the genesis of Desert Rental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5HSCMnuDdg

The question itself persists.  I think they do.

Working on more stories as time permits.

Thank you for posting the answer.  Sounds plausible and further, the consistent retelling of the story the same way can be an indicator of reliability (though not conclusive).

Looks green to me, not the Night mist blue of Morrison's or?

Quote from: 1109RWHP on January 16, 2022, 03:01:37 PM
Someone should ask Chuck Cantwell.

Does anyone have access to Mr. Cantwell to ask?  I am most curious.

Possibly a reposting on my part.  I found this little gem on pixels.com again tonight.  Anyone who has or likes red Hertz cars, this might be for you.  My walls in the house are getting filled up.
https://pixels.com/featured/red-1966-mustang-gt350-stuart-row.html?product=canvas-print

Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on January 16, 2022, 03:02:05 PM
Here's the middle of the fast changing class 1966. Still injected but stretched with mostly steel body. I think the photo is Les Ritchey's shop his car behind the Holman & Moody built car of Gas Ronda. In the front is another stretch chassis - probably the one for Les' own car.

That's hot!

Watching a YouTube at the moment on the Cannonball movie Lamborghini and it was mentioned about the first Lamborghini being called the 350 GT.  My question that I ponder on rare occasion (this being one of those occasions obviously), is what really inspired the G.T. 350 moniker on the Shelby Mustangs?  Did it really evolve out of the distance from one building to another or is there somewhere else that derived the inspiration?  I mean, the 66 Shelbys had the rear Plexiglas quarter window allegedly Shelby took from some Italian car he really liked.  As a further addendum, GM was going to use King of the Road for their Corvette I believe until Shelby had his lawyer beat GM to the trademark office.  I am merely throwing it all out there for some discussion.  Not attempting to cast dispersions on the late great Mr. Shelby whom I still idolize for his accomplishments and derive inspiration from them in my own life to seek out and achieve.
Link here to the Cannonball Lamborghini for those interested.  Shelby Mustangs (and Boss 302 not to forget) are my favs but  I still enjoy all things automotive hence my post in the Lounge, my favorite sub forum thread maker... (gotta love the "screw you" attitude of Ferruccio Lamborghini in reply to Ferrari's response to his clutch complaint on the 250 GTO!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b7erU_DOfE

Quote from: 69mach351w on January 15, 2022, 03:05:33 PM

Quote from: deathsled on January 15, 2022, 02:58:19 PM
$3.7 million.  The owner dodged the rolling pin on that one.  "If you don't sell that G-damn Mustang we're through!!!"  Lol!

LOL, the new owner or previous owner

Old owner dodged it.  New owner inherited it.

$3.7 million.  The owner dodged the rolling pin on that one.  "If you don't sell that G-damn Mustang we're through!!!"  Lol!

S155.1. Time 13:41 central.  I am going to predict that the bidding exceeds the winning bid last time it sold.  I think it will sell for $4 million and change, give or take $100 grand.  This flying Mustang can be yours if...the price...is right....

On S144 now.  Time is 13:08 central....

Time stamp: 12:34. Tick tock tickety tock.  On S129 now...

Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on January 15, 2022, 01:25:46 PM
Great find. I remember watching those run back in the day. A bunch of the big drag teams would bring cars to our high school during the week before the Winternationals would start to hype up their attendance. The Ramcharger cars were flashier but we all looked at the Comet trying to see all the tricks. It was neat seeing the shots of the back straight at Riverside as a drag strip.

I missed out by about a decade.  Life was so much different before social media.  Imagine people getting together in person to enjoy leaps in go-fast technology.  The interest is still there in "man," only said interest remains dormant while we stare at our phones.  I am just as guilty, but I do pause to think about those times and relish the machinery that came out of those times.  (And use my phone and laptop to find such things, so it isn't all bad, computer technology.  The proverbial two edge sword.

Mecum is on lot S106 now as I write this.  Flying Ken Miles R is lot S160.  Time it right gentlemen...Anyone wonder what it will fetch?  I am thinking reserve will not be met and the bid goes on.  But who knows in a pandemic what might happen, right? $4 million maybe from the guy who missed it last time?  Who knows?
Link:
https://www.mecum.com/auctions/kissimmee-2022/live/