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The SHELBY AMERICAN
Summer 2016 99
If you attended all of the SAAC conven-
tions you would have had the opportunity
to see a huge number of the rare or histor-
ical cars in Shelby American history. If you
put them all together under one roof it
would make an incredible museum. For a
SAAC-25 commemoration poster, we sent
SAAC member Tom Honegger twenty-five
photos of what we thought were some of
the most memorable cars at each conven-
tion. Today, some of these cars are old hat;
they’ve been around and have been shown
at various events and pictured in automo-
bile magazines. But back when they were
brought to these conventions, they were
fresh and it was exciting to see them. Some
had been recently restored and others had
not been seen by the general public.
One of the Daytona Coupes was at
SAAC-1. Many people had only seen pic-
tures of the coupes in magazines, even
though they had raced a mere eleven years
prior. At SAAC-2 5R001 was freshly re-
stored, and many had never seen an R-
Model before. Dick Smith’s 427 S/C
represented SAAC-3. The 427 Super
Coupe was at SAAC-6 and a GT40 Spyder
was at SAAC-11. Shelby drove his 427
Cobra S/C completion car at SAAC-17 and
the three 1966 LeMans-winning GT40 MK
IIs were at SAAC-18. At SAAC-19 the 1968
“Green Hornet” experimental GT500
notchback was there. SAAC-22 was repre-
sented by Bill Paul’s yellow ‘66 GT350 –
the last Shelby to race in an SCCA race.
This poster turned out to be very popular
and almost all of them were sold out by the
end of the convention. It was also produced
in the form of a 5˝ x 7˝ post card.