Was High Performance Motors a full fledged Ford dealership?

[s2ms]

Who owns 6S033 today? Probably the only GT350 sold by a Chevy dealer.

Don't know who is the current owner but Brant at VM had it a few years ago while it was being restored.

Peyton got a small handful of 66's when he left SA in anticipation of opening up a dealership all the others were returned to High Performance after doing demonstrator duty at Dana. My wife's 66 was the blue only auto he took and it was very cool when we got the receipt/invoice showing it was sold to Dana though it was a little confusing at the time until I figured out the story over the years. He took a couple of carryovers and one of each color 66

Ton of info and photos of 6S033 on Brant's blog. Scroll down to the page bottom and click on "Next Posts" to keep going...

http://blog.virginiaclassicmustang.com/search?q=6S033&max-results=20&by-date=true

[Brant]

While Dave's link is good for finding my Blog posts about 6S033, you may catch a few more by clicking on this link where I "tagged" all of them. There are 39 total posts with lots of pictures in each post. They date back to 2010 and document the entire history and restoration of the car. As Dave mentions, be sure to click "Older Posts" at the bottom of each page as you scroll through all of the posts. Here is the link:

http://blog.virginiaclassicmustang.com/search/label/SFM6S033?max-results=20

6S033 was an employee lease car at SA. The first person to lease the car is listed as James McLean. Jim was the general manager of SA at the time. His son, Bill, actually drove the car. After his time with the car, it was leased by another SA employee who was a painter there. His name was Ron Hile. I was fortunate to speak to both Bill and Ron over the years. Supposedly, it was also leased by someone who may have been a Ford employee who was helping in the development of the '67 Shelby.

The car was then sold to a local friend of mine who visited Southern California in the summers. He was the first retail owner. The vintage photographs someone posted earlier in the thread were taken by him the first few days after he purchased the car. In those pictures, it wears the Dana Chevrolet license plate frame and the original California tags that were received for the car when it was registered by SA. That picture of the business card is mine and was in the glove box.

It's interesting to note that the car stayed at Dana for about a year before it was sold to the first retail owner.

Here is the car today. I still own it.

[Richstang]

There appear to be many Shelby franchised dealers that were NOT a Ford Dealerships ...
An example is the Foreign Car Center in Birmingham, Alabama

[Richstang]

There were two separate Carroll Shelby owned dealerships.
They are believed to be owned and operated separately.

-The 1st dealership was on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles.
     It opened around 1964 and closed around late 1965.

-The 2nd dealership was on North Sepulveda Blvd in El Segundo
     It opened around September 1965 and closed with LAX around late August 1967

Neither Shelby dealership was a FORD dealer.


The first CS dealership, (HPM1), was named and located as follows;
Carroll Shelby & Lew Spencer's
Hi-Performance Motors, Inc
1150 South La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, 90019
(The four top people were Lew Spencer, Peyton Cramer, Al Dowd, and Tom Reese.)


The second CS dealership, (HPM2), was named and located as follows;
Carroll Shelby's
Hi-Performance Motors, Inc
901 North Sepulveda Blvd
El Segundo, CA


I discussed the details in depth with George Watters and Kieth Champine years ago.
For quick reference we called the first dealership 'HPM1' and the second 'HPM2'.
With their help, we determined the opening and closing date and there separate use.
Business cards from each dealer confirm the serparate names and addresses.

[Richstang]

Back in 1967, FORD Dealer names did not always include the FORD name in their title.
That name addition appears to have happened at a later time.

Currently, we believe;
'HI-Performance Motors' in El Segundo ...and
'Foreign Car Center' in Alabama...
were the only two dealers NOT part of the Ford Network to sell 1967 Shelby's.

[Richstang]

There were two separate Carroll Shelby owned dealerships.
They are believed to be owned and operated separately.

-The 1st dealership was on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles.
     It opened around 1964 and closed around late 1965.

-The 2nd dealership was on North Sepulveda Blvd in El Segundo
     It opened around September 1965 and closed with LAX around late August 1967

Neither Shelby dealership was a FORD dealer.


The first CS dealership, (HPM1), was named and located as follows;
Carroll Shelby & Lew Spencer's
Hi-Performance Motors, Inc
1150 South La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, 90019
(The four top people were Lew Spencer, Peyton Cramer, Al Dowd, and Tom Reese.)


The second CS dealership, (HPM2), was named and located as follows;
Carroll Shelby's
Hi-Performance Motors, Inc
901 North Sepulveda Blvd
El Segundo, CA


I discussed the details in depth with George Watters and Kieth Champine years ago.
For quick reference we called the first dealership 'HPM1' and the second 'HPM2'.
With their help, we determined the opening and closing date and there separate use.
Business cards from each dealer confirm the serparate names and addresses.

HPM1 on La Brea Ave had Lew Spencer as the General Manager.
When Carroll closed HPM1 and opened HPM2...

HPM2 had Ray Wolff as the General Manager.