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The SHELBY AMERICAN
Summer 2016 30
Colin Comer happened to catch the
copy of
Mustang Monthly
out of the
corner of his eye when his wife was
flipping through the channels looking
for a cooking show. The movie was
“Back To The Future Part II.” Comer
rewound it to the image and snapped
a picture to send us. The top of the
magazine carries a banner that says
“Special Shelby Issue” and it’s hard to
believe that it could have been ap-
peared at random. When they are con-
figuring a scene for a movie nothing is
left to chance, so our guess is that one
of the prop masters on the movie crew
was a Shelby fan. How else can you ex-
plain it?
We are starting to get the feeling that
Steve Sloan is trying to change this
magazine into
Herpetology Quarterly
with his continual references to
snakes. This frame still was from a
1951 Flash Gordon series, “The For-
bidden Experiment.” As the show
opens the announcer describes what
you are seeing is a barren and dead
planetoid named Beta N-1. Then you
are shown a lush jungle scene showing
abundant wildlife, including this bat-
tle between a cobra and a mongoose.
How this qualifies as “dead and bar-
ren” is not explained. The ploy in-
volves a scientist trying to convert
animals into humans. His test subject,
a lion partially converted into a man,
is out of control. As always, Flash Gor-
don has to set things right and save
the galaxy. Sort of reminds us of “The
Island of Dr. Moreau,” which was
based on an 1896 H.G. Wells novel of
the same name. The 1996 movie ver-
sion starred Marlon Brando and Val
Kilmer. There were two earlier ver-
sions, “The Island of Lost Souls” (1932)
starring Charles Laughton and Bela
Lugosi, and “The Island of Dr. Moreau”
(1977), starring Burt Lancaster and
Michael York.
It’s always interesting to see the im-
ages a website or blog will use. We re-
cently opened an email that came
from
Sports Car Market
magazine
which contained advertising for a new
a new program on velocity.com called
“What’s My Car Worth?” The picture
they used in the ad was one of a black
289 Cobra. That’s a Go-Pro camera
strapped to the guy’s head. It used to
be that just doing something which
provided you with good feelings and
vivid memories was enough; now some
people need to video everything they
do so they can replay it over and over
again – or send it to everyone on their
“friends” list. This might be the next
evolution of people presently walking
around staring at their cell phones or
iPads and texting everyone about
what they are doing. With a Go-Pro,
they don’t even have to take the time
to text. Just post a video so everyone
on your mailing list won’t have to read
anything – just watch the video.
This full-page ad offers the opportu-
nity to win a Superformance MK III
Cobra with a 480-horsepower Roush
engine for $3 for a single ticket, with
a sliding scale up to $5,000 for 6000
tickets. The proceeds go to the Ronald
McDonald House of the Central Valley.
Winning a raffle is one of those “be
careful what you wish for” things. “
Ok,
you won the car. Congratulations. Now
you have to come up with a chunk of
money to pay the IRS
.” Your dream be-
comes a nightmare and you end up
selling the car to pay the taxes. Sure,
you still have money left over but you
never get to really own the car. This
raffle is a little different. It includes
$20,000 in cash to pay those taxes.
Sounds great, until your accountant
tells you that you’re also going to have
to pay taxes on the $20K.