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More "stats" courtesy of Curt.....

Cars counts as of 10:30 in the morning with a few stragglers possibly coming in later.

Old cars: 96
Newer generation cars (late model Shelby's): 54

Vintage car count
(6) Original Cobras CSX2126 , CSX3010 CSX2285, CSX2574 ,CSX2396 ,CSX 2490
(2) R models, 5R108, 5R095

(38) Vintage Shelby's
       (10) 65 GT350's
       (11) 66 GT350'S
        (8')  67 Shelby's
       (2) 68 Shelby's
       (7) 69-70 Shelby's

The other 50 vintage cars were Tigers , Mustangs , Pantera's, Boss's ,Mach1's ,Cougars , replica Cobra's Replica GT40's and replica Daytona Coupes

[Judged Classes]

For those who were there, THANK YOU for attending the SAAC/Team Shelby Car Show on Saturday.

The day was beautiful, and so were all the cars on display.  Here are a few 'stats' from the show:

 - 114 cars registered for the show, but there were over 200 cars on display
 - 107 people voted in the Popular Ballot portion of the show.  That's 94% participation!
 - 736 votes were cast to determine the Popular Ballot winners
 - The car that won "People's Choice" had 29% of the attendees vote for it
 - The Judged Class was selected by 4 judges, consisting of both SAAC and Team Shelby members

Very special thanks to the Team Shelby crew who helped set up the show, park the cars, register/check-in the attendees, answer questions, judge cars, help with the awards ceremony, then break it all down and pick up the trash! 

Additional thanks for our show sponsors, Cobra Automotive, Inc. (care of Curt Vogt) and Tony D. Branda Shelby & Mustang Part (care of Anthony D. Branda II).

Trophies were presented as per the below list. Congratulations to everyone who went home with 'glass' from the show..... 



Judged Classes
1            CSX 2000 & 3000 Cobras      Tom Cotter
2            CSX 4000 and Up Cobras      Nick Acton
3            1965 GT-350         Robert Faulkner   
4            1966 GT-350         Kevin Cauley (Also Chuck Cantwell Pick)
5            1967 GT-350 & 500         Rick Zappia       1967 GT500   (Also Camilo Pardo Pick)
6            1968 GT-350 & 500 & 500KR      Phil Spatz      1968 GT500
7            1969-1970 GT-350 & 500      Ed Shaw              1969 GT500
8            1969-1971 BOSS Mustang      Keith Anderson      1970 Boss 302
9            2012 & 2013 BOSS Mustang      David Wooldridge   2012 Boss 302
10           2007-2009 GT-500 ALL      Len Ferber      2008 GT500
11           2007 To Present Shelby GT,GTH,SGT   David Shaffer      2016 GTH
12           2010-2014 Shelby GT-500 ALL   Fred Sacks      2013 GT500
13           2010 to Present GT-350      John Wanzel      2020 GT350R
14           2020 To Present GT-500      Sam Guirguis      2022 GT500
15           1965-1973 Mustangs Stock      John Booras      1969 Mustang
16           1965-1973 Mustangs Modified   NO AWARD ISSUED
17           1974-Present Mustangs Stock   NO AWARD ISSUED
18           1974-Present Mustangs Modified   Thomas Jedic      2013 Mustang GT
19           Special Editions,Mustangs 1980 to Present    Ken Shelton   2003 Harley Davison F150
20           2005 to Present Ford GT      NO AWARD ISSUED
21           Exotic Fords         Steve Pagano      1974 TVR 500M
22           Replicas            Steve Meyer      1965 Cobra Roadster
23           Competition Cars         Wayne Pope      1969 Mustang
24           Special Interest         Tom Jedic      1969 Cougar Eliminator
 

"People's Choice Top 25", in no particular order....
1 – Charles Garner                       1970 Torino
2 – Michael Bauman                       1969 Boss 302
3 – David Wooldridge                     1968 GT500
4 – Mike Bender                          2008 Roush 427R
5 – Kyle Keller                          1967 Country Squire
6 – Jack Smith                           1966 GT350
7 – Rick Zappia                          1965 Mustang GT
8 – Paul Rosina                          1968-1/2  Cobra Jet
9 – John Burton                          1967 GT350
10 -  Keith Anderson                     2017 GT350R
11 – Phil Quinn                          1970 GT500
12 – Rich Perroiconi                     1968 Mustang GT Fastback
13 – Joe Volpe                           1965 Mustang
14 – Clyde McLaughkin                    1966 Tiger
15 – John Morris                         1963 F100 Pickup
16 – Glen Sides                          1964 Daytona Coupe
17 – Sam Guirguis                        2022 GT500
18 – David Rioux                         1967 GT350
19 – Glen Hill                           1967 GT350
20 – Guy Lamon                           1970 Boss 429
21 – Mike Parrotta                       2008 GT500
22 – Steven Bartie                       1965 Cobra 427 SC
23 – Mike Demelas                        2022 GT500 Heritage
24 – Robert Warton                       1967 GT500
25 – Howard Pardee                       1965 GT350R


Special Awards
1               People's Choice    David Miller      1969 GT350 (29% voted for this car)
1               Team Shelby Pick   Steve McDonald           1966 GT350H w/ 250,000 miles
1                SAAC Pick           3 Dog Garage            1967 Team Shelby Trans-Am Mustang

1               Celebrity Pick by Tom Cotter           Bill Collins      1965 GT350   
1               Celebrity Pick by Ford Motor Company   Peter Bauer      1965 GT350
1            Celebrity Pick by Jim Marietta (OVC)           Jim Ward      1965 289 Cobra


Best in Show
1              Best in Show    Wayne Olsen      1969 Mach 1
 

Thanks Dan -

For those asking, here is the list of classes for this years show...

1 CSX 2000 & 3000 Cobras

2 CSX 4000 and Up Cobras

3 1965 GT-350

4 1966 GT-350

5 1967 GT-350  & 500

6 1968 GT-350 & 500 & 500KR

7 1969-1970 GT-350 & 500

8 1969-1971 BOSS Mustang

9 2012 & 2013 BOSS Mustang

10 2007-2009 GT-500 ALL

11 2007 To Present Shelby GT, GTH, SGT

12 2010-2014 Shelby GT-500 ALL

13 2010 to Present GT-350

14 2020 To Present GT-500

15 1965-1973 Mustangs STOCK

16 1965-1973 Mustangs Modified

17 1974-Present Mustangs Stock

18 1974-Present Mustangs Modified

19 Special Editions Mustangs 1980 to Present (Saleen, Roush, etc)

20 2005 to Present Ford GT

21 Exotic Fords (Pantera, Tiger, etc)

22 Replicas (All)

23 Competition Cars

24 Special Interest

Looking forward to a GREAT show out in Pittsburgh!

Here is a link to the track day at Pocono Raceway.

Please consider joining the entire weekend event.

https://www.teamshelbynortheast.com/upcoming-events/

[REGISTRATION IS OPEN!!!]

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!!!

Thursday, June 3rd ~ Sunday, June 6th

Team Shelby Northeast is at it again, celebrating our Shelby history for our 2021 event, and we would like to extend a personal invitation to our SAAC friends to join us. This year's event has an overriding theme that will weave its way through the weekend. Join us as we recreate the thrill of the "Carroll Shelby School of High Performance Driving!"

As our Logo indicates, we will be at Pocono Raceway for a day of High Performance Driving. Additionally, this year we are collaborating with Ford Performance Racing School to offer formal driver training from a professional Ford instructor. If you are a novice and are looking for 'the basics', or consider yourself an advanced driver looking to shave a few tenth's of a second off your personal best, there will something for you to learn during our classes. If you are brand new to all this, consider our Touring Class option to get yourself out onto the track.

Besides spending some time up in the Pocono's, we will host a 150+ mile Poker Run with a planned stop at the oldest Brewery in the United States, participation in the Carlisle Ford National's, dinner in a 200 year old historic barn on an estate that is on the National Historical Register, private car shows, a "Thanksgiving" dinner, Team Shelby exclusive autocross competition, and even an ice cream social!

The weekend will be filled with friends, food, driving, plenty of beautiful automobiles, maybe a little bragging, laughing, Shelby family, and as we say at Shelby, "Some damn fun!"

Details and registration information can be found here....https://www.teamshelbynortheast.com/upcoming-events/
Once registered you will receive a confirmation e-mail with our host hotel information. If you are tracking your car (which you really should consider) our Track Steward will also contact you with more information.

Full disclosure: Due to the ever changing nature of the current COVID rules/guidelines, we are late on opening registration this year. Some aspects of this event are still in flux. To ensure everything we have planned moves forward, attendees CANNOT wait until the last minute to sign up for this year's event. If you wait until we are within a 10 day window so you can see what the weather will look like, you will be too late (you cannot imagine how many people sign up in the last week!). Please sign up early (do it today if you know you are attending) so we know who will be joining us and we will be sure to hit our minimum attendee numbers long before the event. This is most critical for those who intend on tracking their cars. If we don't have sufficient track registration by mid-May (a minimum of 30 cars, not including Touring Class, and 15 students for Driving School), we will be forced to cancel our track day. So if you're a 'Track Rat', sign up now and bring a friend. All makes/models are invited to join in the fun.

See you at the 2021 Team Shelby East Coast Grand Nationals!

[REGISTRATION IS OPEN!!!]

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!!!

Thursday, June 3rd ~ Sunday, June 6th

Team Shelby Northeast is at it again, and we are celebrating our Shelby history for our 2021 event. This year's event has an overriding theme that will weave its way through the weekend. Join us as we recreate the thrill of the "Carroll Shelby School of High Performance Driving!"

As our Logo indicates, we will be at Pocono Raceway for a day of High Performance Driving. Additionally, this year we are collaborating with Ford Performance Racing School to offer formal driver training from a professional Ford instructor. If you are a novice and are looking for 'the basics', or consider yourself an advanced driver looking to shave a few tenth's of a second off your personal best, there will something for you to learn during our classes. If you are brand new to all this, consider our Touring Class option to get yourself out onto the track.

Besides spending some time up in the Pocono's, we will host a 150+ mile Poker Run with a planned stop at the oldest Brewery in the United States, participation in the Carlisle Ford National's, dinner in a 200 year old historic barn on an estate that is on the National Historical Register, private car shows, a "Thanksgiving" dinner, Team Shelby exclusive autocross competition, and even an ice cream social!

The weekend will be filled with friends, food, driving, plenty of beautiful automobiles, maybe a little bragging, laughing, Shelby family, and as we say at Shelby, "Some damn fun!"

Details and registration information can be found here....https://www.teamshelbynortheast.com/upcoming-events/
Once registered you will receive a confirmation e-mail with our host hotel information. If you are tracking your car (which you really should consider) our Track Steward will also contact you with more information.

Full disclosure: Due to the ever changing nature of the current COVID rules/guidelines, we are late on opening registration this year. Some aspects of this event are still in flux. To ensure everything we have planned moves forward, attendees CANNOT wait until the last minute to sign up for this year's event. If you wait until we are within a 10 day window so you can see what the weather will look like, you will be too late (you cannot imagine how many people sign up in the last week!). Please sign up early (do it today if you know you are attending) so we know who will be joining us and we will be sure to hit our minimum attendee numbers long before the event. This is most critical for those who intend on tracking their cars. If we don't have sufficient track registration by mid-May (a minimum of 30 cars, not including Touring Class, and 15 students for Driving School), we will be forced to cancel our track day. So if you're a 'Track Rat', sign up now and bring a friend. All makes/models are invited to join in the fun.

See you at the 2021 Team Shelby East Coast Grand Nationals!

On my calendar.  Hope to make it this year.

Last Saturday, Gary Patterson and Tracey Smith issued a challenge to Team Shelby member to 'take it back to the track' by registering to drive their cars on track at the famous Pocono Raceway complex.  Many other groups picked up the challenge and helped spread the word.  I was humbled to see support from Shelby American, Superformance, our friends at SAAC, Shelby Legendary Cars,  Carroll Shelby Racing and countless Shelby/Ford car clubs, etc.

As we have come down to the final hours of this challenge, it pains me (more than you can imagine) to say that, even with all the support anyone could ask for, we came up short of the finish line.  We do not have enough participation to make the track portion of our event economically feasible.  Alas, there will be no track day for this years East Coast Grand Nationals.

So you are probably wondering what will you do on Thursday instead?  Thursday is now your opportunity to choose what YOU want to do!

There are so many options available at the Mount Airy Resort and surrounding Pocono area that you will have a difficult time picking just one or two things to do.  The resort offers a full Spa, indoor/outdoor pool, golf, and or course a Casino. Tours of wineries, cideries and a distillery are nearby.  Some of the ski areas offer Alpine Slides down their mountainsides.  If you want to go "cowboy", there is trail riding (both on horses and ATV's) and a shooting range.

So venture off by yourself or team up with friends for your own mini-adventure.  The day, and the choice, is yours!  All other aspects of the Mount Airy / Pocono Package remain intact. To ensure CDC compliance, we moved our Thursday evening dinner from the Banquet Hall to the more private Club House on the golf course; I consider it an upgrade to our evening and the views are beautiful.  The Friday Poker Run into Carlisle is unchanged and details will be in our electronic Event Survival guide.

I look forward to seeing you in the Pocono's as we demonstrate the resilient, tenacious spirit of Team Shelby.  NOTHING will quench our passion or stand in the way our our friendships.

Bill Caron
Northeast Regional Director, Team Shelby

ps - If you were one of the attendees who registered for the track, you have my heartfelt thanks for supporting the event. Please contact HOD directly with questions concerning reimbursement.

So who is interested in going?

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Dan -  Please put me down for two.  Thanks!

I am postponing our Shady Maple Breakfast until sometime in the Spring.  At that point there will be less going on, the weather will be better, and hopefully we can get a few more folks to commit to attending.

If you were planning on going, and are looking for something Shelby related to do on Saturday, I suggest you check out the Simeone Museums Demo Day featuring a Ford vs Ferrari theme, as well as costumes and other items used in the filming of the movie.  If you attended the premiere in Philadelphia, your name will be on the guest list and you will get in for free.

Although multiple people asked for another trip to Shady Maple, the response up to this point has been rather limited. 

If you are going, please respond to this post by midweek (11/20).  If replies remain low, I will reschedule our breakfast for some time in the Spring.

If you are planning on attending, please reply below so I can give Shady Maple an approximate head count.

By popular demand....

Join Team Shelby Northeast for one if their last events of the year...

HOT CAKES AND HORSEPOWER #2!!!

Where: Shady Maple Buffet (The largest buffet in the USA), 129 Toddy Drive, East Earl, PA 17519

When: Saturday, November 23rd at 8:00am

Cost: $12.50 + tax/person

Join us for breakfast at the largest buffet in the USA. Located in the Lancaster PA area, and featuring home made Pennsylvania Dutch cooking, Shady Maple must be experienced to be believed. Everything is made fresh daily and prepared on-site. From their still warm doughnuts, omelettes to order, and custom made pancake grill (hint: try pumpkin pancakes with pecans and chocolate chips, then drizzle them with cinnamon maple syrup), there is no way you won't find something you'll like, and you certainly won't leave hungry.

When you arrive, park all the way to the lot on the left, across from the banquet hall entrance (see map in the post).When you arrive, go to the reservations desk and tell the hostess you are with Team Shelby so she will seat you with our group.

Please post below if you will be attending so Shady Maple can get a headcount and ensure there is enough room for our group.

See you there, and if I was you, I'd stop eating at least 3 days prior to our breakfast.

FYI - The dates for the 2020 Team Shelby East Coast Grand Nationals are Thursday, June 4th to Sunday, June 7th.  We are finalizing our track selection for Thursday, and will then cruise /poker run to Carlisle, PA to join in the Ford Nationals taking place there.

Lots of Shelby related events, all in a short timeframe!