GT 350H in the less common blue and gold color palette

 the most common colors are black and gold, but they also were like this blue or red in the last months of production. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/12/shelby-gt-350h.html for more info

 it's not easy to read, it says " This vehicle is equipped with competition brakes, heavier than normal brake pedal pressure may be required"

Cop and Shelby Mustang stuck at a stop light, who eyeballed who more?

2013 Ford Shelby GT500 Rated at 662HP Making it the World's Most Powerful Series Production V8

The horsepower wars just got a little bit more interesting as Ford announced the final SAE ratings for the supercharged 5.8-liter V8 engine in the 2013 Shelby GT500.

When the Blue-Oval revealed the Coupe and Convertible versions of the new GT500, it said the force-fed V8 produced an estimated 650 ponies and 600 lb-ft (814Nm) of peak torque, but according to the SAE ratings released by Ford today, the eight-cylinder unit has a peak output of 662-horsepower and 631 lb.-ft. (856Nm) of torque.

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the Riverside International Automotive Museum, not easy to find, but worth the time to tour

 the museum owns, and restores as well as repairs race cars.  This is the famous Gurney Eagle

 I'll go back and get better photos of the race cars one day, but the lesson you can get from looking at them is how fast design changed after the 70's. Not much is different pre 1960's from decade to decade, but as soon as wings and downforce came into play, a lot changed quick

 Above is a Vector. There were a couple of movies that had them featured... they were made in So Cal, but it wasn't a good business plan, they made them of expensive materials in some ways, liek carbon fiber, but the windows can't open, the interior is really cheap GM stuff like switches etc... and half way through building them, they could no longer get the engines they'd been using and switched to Lamborghini engines

 Tamerlane Thoughts blogspot toured here a year or two ago, and did a much better post about this collection of Maserati, the largest in So Cal I have no doubt

 Ol Yeller 3 ahead of the Cobras and european cars

 Great photos sometimes have great stories... like the above... that is a fridge or bbq grill... in place of the window netting you might be used to seeing. McCluskey arrived at the racetrack to learn that he'd be required to have some form of restraining material in the window... so he went and found what you see above, and put in it in time for the race. I love racing stories.

 Here is what driving to it looks like, that dead end above, well don't go that far. Take the left turn

 Past this building labeled 833

 Past this one labeled 815... it and the previous 833 will be on your right, as well as the museum below, and it blends into the surrounding builds really well. Why the camoflage? Don't know.

http://www.riversideinternational.org/

A terrific pair of Shelbys... the forgotten 1980's Shelby's, and you'd never guess which ones without photos

 A new Lancer (vs the old one you'll see in a couple of posts) and a Shelby Dakota... the only truck with Shelby on it I can think of

"The Northwest Terror" the Marv Tonkin Shelby Mustang GT350, gets a feature in this months Hemmings Muscle Machines, page 62

These photos were ones I took at the Coronado Speedfest at the North Island Naval Airstation this past Sept...  http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/2011%20Speedfest

if you can get through the sign in registration (I never got through it) if you are a Hemmings subscriber, you can read the article at http://www.hemmings.com/mus/stories/2012/02/01/hmn_feature13.html 

Shelby Pit Stop Deodorant, unopened can went for $1026.98 on Ebay

 above image from the book Cobra Fifty Years and the below is from some car magazine in 1968

the ebay info was in the Feb 2012 Automobile magazine

GT 350 Shelby Mustang barnfind, just 44 thousand original miles, and pulled out 2 years ago, now coming to auction

I just stumbled across the top two images in Hemmings Muscle Machines, and came home to find a comment on this blog from Kurtis letting me know about it.

All images are originally from Barrett Jackson Auctions though, here's the post they have about it http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/lotdetails.aspx?ln=1263.1&aid=443&pop=0

If anyone learns about any other cool barnfinds, let me know and I'll post about it here and share the info!   at jbohjkl@yahoo.com 

Auto Enthusiast feb 2012 issue has an article about the 1966 "Carryover" Shelby GT 350 Mustangs

I had never heard of them, but there were 252 66 GT 350s that started life as 1965 Mustangs, and were ordered to prepare for the stoppage of the 1965 production and retoolling time before Ford started building the 1966 Mustangs

So Shelby had to order 250 cars to have on hand for his companies conversions to GT 350s while Ford would be unable to keep up the supply. This way when Ford started selling 1966 Mustangs, Shelby would have 1966 GT350s

2 cars were prototypes (6S001 and 6S023)

For more about the "Carryover" Cobra Mustangs http://www.carryovergt350.com/