Shelby Buildings -Carter Ave.- 04/2022 1 NEW Pic - GT350 Production

[Richstang]

Here's a close up of the lettering on the side of the dragonsnake

[Szabo]

Thank a lot --- aimed by means in German fixed for the races...

Any words for the office post also :-D ?

[Richstang]

'aimed by' is an unusual choice of words to me.

I assumed it meant they were the crew who built and raced it.


I do not have much too add about the office photos.
We know some were the Carter building since we see a couple of the photos looking at the first floor windows.
Maybe they were all taken there? It is difficult to say where each photos was taken with so few to look at.

[Szabo]

Just do some afterworks for the Carter Building ...

i will add the Birdview Pic from Side-Oiler of the HistoricAriels Homepage,
thank you very much ...



Then i found a little bit for this Standard K-code Mustang 2+2 in back of Carter Building,
the thougs are from David Friedmann for a magazine...
Seems this was a sort of Prototype or Testmule for the GT350 Launch ...
Maybe this Section Wall, to work on the Mule and Prototype Forms for this one,
only some thougs for me... is anybody known about this Red one Pre Prototype Stang



and for last at this moment

i found this Pics near by the Carter Building Negatives, could this be inside from Carter Building
i am really not sure, probbaly i would say even more NO then YES

David McDonald is given a Medaille, even we see there is a Cobra standing in forground, but what all the
other Cars there i see a T-Bird too

but CS are not sale with another Cars  ...

Just let me know your thougts about this Pics

[rhjanes]

Looks like a Ford dealership.  Ken Miles and Dave sitting in a Cobra.  Carroll also there.  I would guess the older man is the dealership owner and the other man, perhaps his general manager.  The award is interesting.  It is pretty small and is a man throwing a disc's?!  Like the Olympics.  So, Dave getting an award from a So-Cal dealership for "Sportsman of the Year, XYZ Dealership"

[honker]

Szabo, thanks for posting those photos of Miles & MacDonald with Carroll, I came across those as well, "rhjanes" here is the info that was with the images.

Mike

[rhjanes]

thanks!

[Side-Oilers]

I just had a thought that the Ford dealer shown with MacDonald, etc., might have been Culver Ford. That dealer was located a stone's throw from the Helms Bakeries headquarters (Culver City, CA)  and I've seen pix of that dealer with a 289 Cobra in the showroom.   

[Richstang]

I just had a thought that the Ford dealer shown with MacDonald, etc., might have been Culver Ford. That dealer was located a stone's throw from the Helms Bakeries headquarters (Culver City, CA)  and I've seen pix of that dealer with a 289 Cobra in the showroom.

I think you've identified the correct dealer of the McDonald / Miles / Shelby photo series.
Here's the pic you mentioned with a white cobra on the showroom floor next to the window. It might even be the same Cobra.
The wall, supports, and materials all seem to be a match. Nicely done!

[Side-Oilers]

Thanks Rich, glad that proved out.

Seeing that pix you posted jogged my memory further.  The photo you posted was (I believe) from the 1964 yearbook from Culver City High School, which was my H.S. too (but I attended many years later.) 

I'd been searching through old CCHS yearbooks online and that's where I saw that Cobra pix originally.  I posted it somewhere when I found it (four or five years ago) so perhaps that's how you found it too. 

[Richstang]

I found it searching through 'Bing' under 'Cobra Dealerships'.
It appears to have been posted on 'Pinterest.jp', where everyone copies and posts photos.
If that was your find originally shared, thanks for that too!

I couldn't find that dealer photo on the forum, maybe another lost item from version 1.0.



It's great to have someone from the area where this all started. Culver City seems to be the center point of that movement.

[69mach351w]

Lol, you guys impress me with the information and photos and especially your memories and how you find all the photos and compare to other photos to nail down locations.

Keep the info rolling

[Side-Oilers]

Thanks guys, it's all part of the fun.   Although, I'm sure many/most/all of our spouses think we're nuts.

[Richstang]

Thanks guys, it's all part of the fun.   Although, I'm sure many/most/all of our spouses think we're nuts.

Are families are probably happy we're not out getting in trouble and off the couch staring at the TV's.
It's when we're in the garage they start worrying. 

[69mach351w]