"The Mongoose," set to release this October, stars Liam Neeson driving a S650-based Mustang Shelby Super Snake on a high-speed cross-country car chase... and Ving Rhames! Been a long time since I've seen him in anything but Mission Impossible

https://fordauthority.com/2026/07/liam-neeson-drives-an-s650-ford-mustang-shelby-super-snake-in-new-movie-video

It's 1st owner won it in a contest, and Shelby purchased it in 1999, it's currently in Greece, and up for sale for about 160k

https://fordauthority.com/2026/05/1967-ford-mustang-shelby-gt500-formerly-owned-by-carroll-shelby-up-for-auction

does any ever say anything other than "I'm going to restore it someday" ?

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1394924765997596&set=a.556433073180107

seen today while making the errands rounds of groceries and a hospital visit (YOU MUST visit your friends in hospital, some can't use the internet or watch tv)

when was the last time you saw a CRX?

Proof that a new Mustang CAN look good if it's simply upgraded with racing stripes, hood pins, and most of all, the hood has to have a hood scoop

who the hell hires an open trailer to transport a car worth around 200k from Texas to Chicago, in bad weather?

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=33326277440296599&set=pcb.10163733959741251

this GT350 fastbacks built for 1968, this was a commuter for 24 years, 5 while attending college, then 7 as a tax accountant, and 12 more during an FBI career. No AC, and an automatic... in Florida, Alabama, and new Jersey

Joining the FBI had not been on Sizemore’s radar when he was in high school. He was also working part-time at Southside Ford in Jacksonville as a mechanic’s assistant in electrical and tune-up. His dad worked in the dealership’s parts department.

The teen saw Shelbys in the dealership, but it was not until he was driving behind a ’68 in his mildly hotrodded ’59 Chevy that he felt the urge to buy one. He followed it into a Lou Bono’s BBQ restaurant, captivated by the car’s sequential turn signals, a feature of the 1965 Thunderbird taillights used on 1968-1970 Shelbys.

“When I saw those, I immediately thought, ‘That’s my car,” he remembers.

That summer, Sizemore had money from his job and from selling his Chevy. Because he’d earned a full two-year athletic scholarship to Florida Junior College, his parents approved his using the $1500 they’d saved for his education toward a car.

“My mom helped talk my dad into letting me buy a Shelby, but he would not allow a GT500 KR,” Sizemore says. “I guess he figured I’d hurt myself, and he was probably right.”

That July, Southside Ford still had a half-dozen ’68 models on the lot. The young man picked a GT350 with the automatic transmission but without air conditioning.

“I knew that the A/C would take a little bit of horsepower when it was on, and I didn’t want to give up any. I regretted that decision every Southern summer since!”

At college in Florida, Sizemore became an All-American in cross country and two years later earned a full scholarship at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. The Shelby went with him. His girlfriend, Cathy, also attended UA and owned a 1967 Mustang six-banger hardtop with a three-speed stick. The couple married in 1970 and recently celebrated their 55th anniversary.

With his accounting degree, Sizemore first worked for a Jacksonville CPA firm and picked up extra cash working in his dad’s gas station on weekends. He had hood stripes added to the Shelby, saying the shop did “a halfway decent job.”

In 1980 and with two children, Alton III and Kimberly, the family began moving around with Sizemore’s FBI assignments: Jacksonville, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Birmingham. In the Jacksonville office, a colleague spotted the 1977 Wallace Wyss book, “Shelby’s Wildlife,” on Sizemore’s desk and offered to get it autographed by Carroll Shelby through a connection. He got it back six months later, with the signature.

“The Shelby sat in the garage a lot, and we got a second car, a Plymouth Volare station wagon with a Slant Six. My wife hated it and couldn’t wait to get rid of it.”

Sizemore’s drive from D.C. to his Birmingham assignment in 1992 was the Shelby’s last such trip.

“I met so many people in the Bureau, but even now, when I talk to someone I haven’t seen in years, the first question they ask is how I’m doing, and the second is always, ‘Do you still have the Shelby?’”

“I wanted to preserve it for my family, so I needed to be more careful with it,” he says. “When I retired in 2005, I went right back to work as a forensic accountant and had the extra income to get the Shelby restored. It wasn’t in poor condition, but it had 40 years and 130,000 miles of wear. I wanted it to be like new again.”

https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/original-owner-slick-taillights-sparked-an-fbi-agents-mission-to-buy-a-1968-shelby

Competition Press and AutoWeek (CP&A) magazine bought SFM6S289, to be Russ Goebel's (CP&A President/Publisher) daily driver. He sold it 21 months later, and that family kept it and still drives it, though it was garage stored for 28 years

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10231096415901655&set=pcb.3797396817061205

the odometer on the 67 Gt 350 was at 60,517 and this sat in the yard, another "I'm not selling, I'm gonna restore it someday" is my guess. Then the owner died, and it disappeared

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1273135524843188&set=pcb.1273135561509851

among the GT 350s the original Venice crew builds, is this type of rear deck, looking like that early 60s Thunderbird option. I think it's terrible on the Mustang

coincidence that I just posted the Cobra Mustang GT 500 in the comic book, now I just found that the new Eddie Murphy movie The Pickup, selected a Cobra Mustang GT 350 for the car chase

ever heard of the 1990s manga, Gunsmith Cats? Me neither, until the week before last, at Comic Con. It's pretty cool... the main character, a 19 yr old who operates a gun shop, and drives a Shelby Cobra GT500. Inspired by the French Connection

and the artist drew several other vehicles to:

19-year-old Irene "Rally" Vincent operates the titular "Gunsmith Cats" gun shop but also works as a bounty hunter

Rally is an expert combat shooter and marksman with just about every firearm in existence, as well as a brilliant driver.

her housemate, former prostitute "Minnie" May Hopkins, is an explosives expert, knowing the inner workings of and many uses of all manner of explosive devices.

https://characterdesignreferences.com/art-of-animation-10/art-of-gunsmith-cats

When I was in the booth, another guy walked by, saw what I was looking at, said "hell ya, fuck ya, Kenichi Sonada!" so... I take it, this is a legendary artist. 

Having read the Gunsmith Cats omnibus Book 1, I can tell you, it's fun, and the art? Seriously good! 

In the city of Chicago, Rally Vincent is an expert gun owner and maintenance expert who owns a gun shop by the name of Gunsmith Cats. That’s her primary business, but at night Rally takes to the streets as a bounty hunter using her amazing gun handling skills to take down criminals for pay. Rally being a expert is how she makes a living. Her partner is Minnie May, an explosive happy person who loves throwing grenades everywhere. Minnie is a lot more happy go lucky, so she helps balance Rally’s professionalism and rigidness with her own sense of wonder and spontaneity.

A couple other episodes can be seen here : https://www.youtube.com/@fulltism

The story is fun, the characters are well written and entertaining, and the attention to detail is superb. Chicago is brought to animated life, and fans of guns and cars will have more than enough to look at.

It seems this isn't on any streaming service, and the blu ray isn't available on Amazon or Ebay. 

This post took 3 hours. Yeah, some posts just get put on hold until I can spare the time