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The SHELBY AMERICAN
Summer 2016 21
Master Eagle Eye Shake-Up: One Out, New One In
Our spontaneous eagle eye
competition has finally had a
shake-out. Bob Barranger has
thrown in the towel, acknowledging
that he has had more of a drubbing
than he can take. “
At the beginning
I thought this would be a piece of
cake
,” said Barranger, “
but lately
my usual sources seem to have all
dried up. I keep coming up empty. I
don’t know how these other eagle
eyes do it. I’m not someone who
runs around crying ‘conspiracy’ at
the drop of a Shelby hat but how
well have these other master eagle
eyes been vetted?”
Almost at the same time
Barranger was running up the
white flag, a new eagle eye was
stepping into the ring. Pete
Doriguzzi of Lakeland, Florida sent
us a couple of eagle eye sightings in
the last issue and a couple of more
for this one. When we teased him
about it leading him to becoming a
master eagle eye, he responded,
“
Hey – this is pretty easy.
” We’ll
see, junior, we’ll see. The first ones
are always easy. Let’s see how you
can handle the pressure when you
have to come up with a handful of
new things for every issue.
One of the nurses in the cardiac rehab department in Doc Warren’s hospital
took a picture of this Cobra and sent it to him. One of their post-surgery pa-
tients drove it to his rehab appointment. He reports that it was an unpro-
voked sighting and he never asked her to be on the look-out for Cobras.
Apparently his Cobra obsession is being transmitted through telepathy. It’s
one thing for a master eagle eye to develop a sixth sense about Cobra and
Shelby sightings, to the point where they appear to seek him out. But tele-
pathically having outsiders collect sightings for him is something we had
never considered. Maybe it’s time to break out the tin foil hats.
Barranger sent us a handful of
sightings when he advised us that
his days as a master eagle eye were
at an end. He was obviously intent
on going out with a bang. He spot-
ted this ad for Shelby the Swamp
Man on a reality TV show. Funny,
he looks much different without the
black cowboy hat.
Doriguzzi spotted this ad for a “Cars
& Cigars” get-together in Detroit. The
Cobra was an obvious attention-getter
but doesn’t seem to have anything to
do with the event...unless, maybe, it
attracts a Cobra to show up.We hadn’t
realized there was a connection be-
tween cigars and Cobras, but live and
learn.
For openers, Doriguzzi was on a
parts run at a local O’Reilly’s Auto
Parts distribution center. It was
hard to miss this oversized “A
clean car holds its value” desk top
pad. It was admittedly hard to
miss, but to find it you had to be at
the right place at the right time.