some cars were only available in one color... like the GNX

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/5-iconic-muscle-cars-that-were-available-in-a-single-paint-scheme-258330.html

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

The godfather of the Shelby GT350, Mr. Chuck Cantwell, project engineer for the GT 350 Cobra Mustang!

As project engineer for the GT350 program, he was the driving force behind the design and production of the street and track-attacking R model. He was even a GT350R test driver for a while.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/chuck-cantwell-man-not-named-shelby-behind-the-gt350-program/photos

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

my uncle just found another photo of my grand fathers 1965 Shelby GT 350 Mustang! (SFM5S294) With my cousin Julie

 Darn right this will be a banner photo one day soon!  

Fwiw, the other reasons that I think it's incredible that my paternal grandfather bought this, and was a hell raiser in a little town in Michigan, is that you aren't even aware how middle of damn nowhere Sidnaw is... and to realize a guy THERE!!?? bought this, and was running around, inspiring a new generation of wild young men heading to Vietnam, with this sports car? 

See what I mean about middle of nowhere, now? Take and look at how far it is from ANY interstate. 

So, another reason I think that it's incredible, is that I didn't hear a hint about that GT 350 until 2009. I was around 38, and a cousin mentioned it, and no one had a photo, and I called a meeting (as it were) of the cousins and made sure they realized how dang interested I was in seeing just ONE photo of it. 

Seriously, how does a car nut on the level I am, never hear that his dad's dad bought and drove a GT 350?

Eventually, one was found, by accident. Then about a year ago, my uncle was helping clean out his sister in laws place (in the background of this photo) my Aunt Yvonne's place, and found a box of negatives, looked through them to see if there was anything of interest for everyone else in the family, and found 

so, in addition to the first found photo of it, there are now two more. 

I just spotted this on my uncles Facebook post, the GT 350 jacket grandpa was given when he bought his 65 Cobra Mustang (SFM5S294)

 

I'd posted the car when I first learned in 2009, that my dad's father had bought this, as somehow, no one though I'd find it interesting to know that there had once been this very cool car in the family. 

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-recently-learned-that-my-granddad-had.html

Only 2 photos of the car even exist, and the above, was a negative that was found by accident recently when emptying a house that an aunt had moved out of due to old age and health reasons. She's lived there about 60 years. 

My uncle had never mentioned the jacket until now, but really, he probably had forgotten all about it. I don't remember most of the jackets I've ever had. 

some were driving, some were racing, some were just showing off, but all were wrecking

 

This preview image of the t-boned Charger is not anywhere in the video. 

This preview image of the t-boned Superbird is not anywhere in the video.

What do you make of this... no rivets in the Shelby tag, and the last digit is upside down

Your coffee and donut video of the morning: Dave spotted this 67 GT 350 in high school while working at a gas station... and knew he wanted it then, and was able to buy it years later, then had to store it about 30 years, until he could finally restore it

 

https://petrolicious.com/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=gyg7UJZcrrLskQkCKqCYjNblPfc2N-U72EZXe8HR-sk.WHAhwx

barnfind Hertz Shelby GT 350 mostly parked for 44 years, the owner takes it to car shows, and it runs... but it's been garaged for 44 years without it being a driver anymore.

It was featured in Mustang Monthly in 2009

This 1969 Shelby GT350 was stolen shortly after it was delivered in 1969 and damaged badly enough that the insurance car wrote it off and paid out the owner, and sent the car to the junkyard

The owner was cashed out, and the car was destined for the scrapheap.

 This is where ABC Auto Wreckers of San Leandro, California came into the picture. Jerry Lecatse bought the car and set to work turning it into a race car eligible to compete in the SCCA B Production Class. 

 The original 428 was removed and replaced with a Boss 302 with a more rules-friendly displacement of 302 cubic inches 

In 1982 the car was bought to return it to its earlier SCCA racing specification. But, before work could begin, the car was damaged in a storage facility fire along with 14 other vehicles. 

 The car remained in damaged condition in a new storage facility until Goeringer met famous hot-rodder Doane Spencer, they got to talking about the car and struck a deal to finish it together, repairing the parts that needed it with a donor chassis. Spencer would sadly pass away in 1995 and the project wouldn’t see completion until 2012.

https://silodrome.com/1969-shelby-gt350-race-car/

good looking wheel and tire combo to sports car

John Hancocks' trifecta of '66 Galaxie wagon, '66 Shelby clone, and trailer rolling on one-dozen Magnum 500 wheels, all custom built by Specialty Wheels of Portland, Oregon, is a reminder that creativity is infinite in this hobby

http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/media/custom-1966-ford-galaxie.2410/

http://sagass.blogspot.com/2012/05/impressoes-galaxie-wagon-1966.html

https://www.fordmuscle.com/archives/2004/07/SeeingIsBelieving/

this race team owner must have been one happy and rich person

https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php?t=56177&page=78

what a pretty way to get your GT 350 to the track or car show

https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php?t=56177&page=81

it's often true that the story of a car is cooler than pictures of the car... because in this story, Ak Miller played a part

with all the coverage I've seen and shared of the recent MCACN, I thought it had been well covered. Nope. Here's Old Car Weekly showing a lot of cars that no one else did

placed 3rd at 12 hours of Sebring in 1966

Rocky Mountain purple, I posted about these years ago, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-rocky-mountain-insurance-company.html an insurance company painted them this eye catching color, and gave them to it's insurance salesman as company cars to increase the salesman's interaction with possible customers, as a lot of people will stop and talk to someone with an interesting car

the 487" stroked hemi GTX that was street racing in Detroit, and pulled a 10 1/2 second quarter mile. The engineers at Plymouth used it as a development mule after work on Woodward Ave

http://www.silverbulletgtx.com/history/bullet.html

or read Car Craft's write up (good one!) and full gallery http://www.carcraft.com/featuredvehicles/906_1967_plymouth_belvedere_gtx/index.html

A Beaumont

 https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/old-cars-muscle-car-timeline