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Well I was there, but I should not say who won, since I do not have my past "SHELBY AMERICANS" at my office. Maybe someone can look it up in the issue that followed SAAC 27, Rick usually put together a grid lap by lap who the leaders were. As I remember, there was a brutally fast West coast 65-66 black Mustang that was not an original GT350, but was driven by Boris Said (present TA driver at that time). I think the photo I took of Boris in the car made it into The Shelby American.  The fastest Mustang there a West coast entered multicolored 1971? fastback with revised/widened bodywork with an intergrated rear spoiler that probably was actually functional at the speeds it was going. This car may have "won" but it looked like it should be in an ISMA race.
Personally, I like the lines more of the orignal R models so maybe you have to go down the list of finishers to find the first original chassis that went through Shelby Anerican to find the winner? Converted race cars usually have had hard lives, so how much of the "original" chassis is still present? Not sure there is an easy answer.
Kopec also came up with a pretty clever bumper sticker for the East coast race cars,   that should be in The Shelby American as well. 
Now that SAAC 49 is in the books, we can begin to all pool together and bring out as many original Shelby Mustangs, Cobras and Tigers to SAAC 50 in Califonia. Timing is good, today marks exactly one year until SAAC 50 Aug 1st, Sears Point. I'll always remember it as Sears Point. Spread the word, lets make SAAC 50 something to really remember! Maybe we should start a section just for SAAC 50 now?                   

All of the "carryovers" for 1966 were 4 speeds except one.

From one of the lowest all time post count SAAC members. 

If I remember correctly, I used a mid to late H 64 (Aug. 64) block for the build of 5S003, which had a door tag of being ordered in late October 64. Since 004 and the rest of the next batch did not arrive for another month/month-plus, I don't think this block would fit. If its a K code block, pass the K number to Howard, you never know, it may have been for one of the notchbacks?     

The passing of someone who had a lot of enthusiasm for the early GT350's and history of everything Shelby American is always a tough thing to go through.
On the other side of this loss is that perhaps Hans found some peace knowing a friend of his would take care of his GT350 and also drive it whenever possible. The car is alive, well, and looking great as someone can post the latest cover of The Shelby American. It was good to see the car land in the hands of someone who knew Hans and will continue to keep Hans' feelings for the car strong into the future. It is for this reason, it was nice to see it not end up with someone who would just flip the car for a profit.

Congrats Brian on a job well done, you are the Eric English of SAAC NW.....well sort of.

Sad to see another link to Cobra history gone, I was able to meet him a couple times,a very nice man and had a great memory .

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Great photo Dave, did Eric English take it?  You are spinning that motor pretty close to redline. Bet Gary Lewis moved that needle further over in 1966 than where you are at now. I don't see any purple and no Dawgs on the side of the road. 

Yes, from 1963 as its the Cobras in the 3 Championship poster, photo used in the poster was taken at Kent, Wa. In the photo above #98 was Miles', #97 McDonald's maybe that is him 7th from the left, but not sure, #99 was driven by Holbert. Some of the other people may have worked at the ......r Co. dealership? where the cars were being serviced before their next race? Pure guesses. 

That's a cool photo of the three Cobras I have not seen before, from 1963? Left to right Al Dowd, Ken Miles, 5th from the right looking down, mechanic Jack Hoare ? 

Looking back in the photo it was in the "A" sedan race group. 

When I was a finishing up Junior year in high school I purchased my first BOSS 302.  I would search for articles on the BOSS 302 written in 1970 to see how the car was received by the press. In an article by Car and Driver they took an essentially stock BOSS 302 and put race rubber with different rims and from this photo side exhausts and went to road race it. The title of the article was something like "The Flagman Says Car's Number 9's Stereo Is Too Loud" . It made me feel a little better they were a capable car, I just couldn't afford a first generation GT350. From memory this may be the car from this article ? Never knew it got bumped in the race, interesting photo.         

Very well said John.

A better race for Shelby American fans would have been the 1964 Bridgehampton Double 500 race as Carroll Shelby packed ten 289 Cobras in 28 car field in the quest to gather the World Manufacture points towards the Championship. Ferrari never showed up since Enzo had already cancelled the Monza race so Shelby American would have to wait until 1965. There is a You Tube video of the 1964 race but it was a 16mm film put on by the Hansgen family.  For the time period, its hard to beat the quality of this 1965 film.

Unfortunately, Ken Young missed his first convention at SAAC 48, I was hoping to see him there.