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Photo at a dealer who sold hop-up parts?

Note white Mustang right behind the first car, with steel wheels/ no covers.  And another white ‘65 behind that.

Coincidence that the mechanics are dressed in white,  like Shelby’s guys?

Hmmmm.

XR7G Cougar looks bitchin with the driving lights illuminated. IMO, that's the perfect mounting location for those.

Looks integrated and badazz at the same time.

Just FYI:
The Vette with McQueen is a '66 427 coupe. 

The one crossing behind the Bullitt car is a '65 fuelie convertible with hardtop on.

Cool pix. Looks like RIR.

I can hear Carroll’s voice: “Get yer azz off the car now, honey, and get back to work.”

Neat photo! Check out the amount of frequency numbers on that AM radio dial. 

Steering wheel center looks unique too.

What are the gauges monitoring?

^^^ +1

Wasn't George Elliott the guy who started Project X?

Yes, he was. I just reminisced with him on the phone about how that project got started.  It was around 1965 and they wanted to do an affordable project car. Arch-rival Hot Rod would do the occasional mega-dollar high end project, but PHR's readers were more into stuff they could build themselves.  George saw the '57 Chevy with a for sale sign on it, as he drove past it on some street in the San Fernando Valley. He bought it for something like $350.

That began the multi-year series of build-up articles, which then carried forward (after long jumps in time) to the era I was there, and until they ruined it by converting it to full EV for display at SEMA about 6-8 years ago. Apparently, Chevy did (or paid for) a lot of the work, I guess trying to make EVs seem cool.  Uh...

I have heard that it's been put back to proper Chevy V8 carbon-propulsion.

I think that when George retired from Argus Publishers, after something like 35 years of helping build the company from one magazine into a pretty powerful independent publisher & producer of car events & TV shows, he should've been given Project X.  But, the tight-wad owners couldn't see past the dollar signs.  Sad.

I hope whoever has it, fully appreciates its long and unique history. Gotta say, to drive it on the street, the couple of times I did to car events, when it was still a very famous icon of hot rodding, was pretty bitchin'.   

Never got it to do a wheelstand, though.  That was the earlier PHR crew.