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Thank you for calling. For some reason I can't find your PM. Not sure why, but I passed the info on to my buddy who's restoring his car. Thanks again!

Sent a PM a couple days ago, not sure of you received it. I know a guy who may be interested. Please call me at 406-544-7221

So these wheels are actually reproductions rather than ones restored by Paradise Wheels?

I have the exact same problem and have been running tubes since the late 80's. I only had three of my wheels restored, I sent them to him from Montana one at a time. After the first three wouldn't hold air I gave up and used the nicest of the last two I had left along with the three restored wheels with tubes in them. Craig told me many years ago that they had corrected the problem and that if I shipped them back to them they would fix them, but the expense of shipping them was a deterrent for me at the time. After running them for the last 30 plus years I have taken them off the car and put a set of Cragars on it which is kind of a nice change. I am going to California in a few months and I'm taking them with me and hope to drop them off to have them fixed and have the fourth wheel restored. I certainly expect them to charge me after 30 years of use. I'm hoping they will be willing to repaint the centers of the three I had them restore for me years ago without completely restoring them again as they've held up quite well. My car's a driver so it's not a concourse car by any stretch of the imagination, but Magstars look great on it. The tubes are a pain because they start leaking at some point too and I've ended up replacing all of them a couple times over the years.

So the Marti Report will include the information specific to how your car compares to other Shelby GT's and not just to the total production of GT Mustangs?

I had a funny story trying to buy a '67 GT500 over forty years ago. I had been talking to the owner for a couple years and he told me I would be the first person he would call if he decided to sell it. A couple years go by, and I mention it to a friend of mine who was looking for a Mustang at the time. He went and talked to the guy and ended up buying it, telling the seller that I had just bought a '66 Mustang fastback and wasn't in the position to purchase another car at that time, which was true. The car needed to be restored, so he spent the next five years getting things done as he could afford to, but then his wife had a couple kids and he decided finishing the project was not in the cards. By that time I had found the GT500 that we still own to this day, which was a nice car that didn't need to be restored, so things worked out better for me anyway. My friend sold his car to another buddy of ours who finished the restoration and eventually sold the car. It's now in the LeMay collection in Tacoma Washington.

BaT won't let anyone post on the car's auction now. Try and post and nothing happens. I think they are embarrassed by what transpired. With a price of 363K RNM on BaT and now 350K OBO on Ebay it would appear the bids on BaT were suspect? If not then why not take the 363K as it costs the owner NOTHING even to accept it. It is what it is or so it appears.

It appears the high bid (if it was legitimate) was $263,000.

Here's the full footnote from the latest Registry.

According to the latest '67 Registry it's owned by Tom Kuhn in Huntington Beach CA, purchased from Rick Glover on 07/05/89

I believe the car is usually displayed in the Shelby Museum in Las Vegas. it is there right now, and it is beautiful. Gary told me a couple years ago that it had been in his wife's family since new. Sounds like she'd be the perfect wife!

One more....

More pics

Turned out to be a pretty decent day weatherwise and the number of cars that showed up was surprising. The panel discussion was interesting and went on for about an hour. Aaron Shelby, Gary Patterson, Bruce Meyer, Lance Stander, and Tracy L. Smith. They all had some interesting stories to tell. There were no '67 or '68 Shelbys and only one '69. The only time I've been to a show where there were more '65's than 67's, 68's, 69's and 70's! I didn't take a bunch of photos, but here's a few.

Is anyone on the forum planning on attending this event in Los Angeles on Sunday January 21st? Anyone been to it in the past?

I used to really like that event, it used to have a great turnout with many real cobra's and Shelby Mustangs. If I had not escaped California and didn't fear stepping in a little fecal matter I would still go.

    I'll wear boots!

Is anyone on the forum planning on attending this event in Los Angeles on Sunday January 21st? Anyone been to it in the past?