Re: My Shelby story

Dan,

I went to the car memories website and read the story on how you aquired your '68 GT350. It was a very good story. Thanks for sharing it.

Jim Seisser

-----Original Message-----
From: "Dennis@carmemories.com" <dennis@carmemories.com>
Sent: Feb 21, 2005 12:36 AM
To: Shelby Mustang <ShelbyMustang@carmemories.com>
Subject: My Shelby story

Thought I would share my Shelby Story. The first time I really noticed
the Shelby Mustangs was when I turned 16. I saw an ad in a magazine. I
think it was a car mag but it might have been Playboy. It was a '68
Shelby Cobra. You know the red ones. I had no money to buy one but I had
pictures from the ads and stories. A year later I talked my parents into
helping me get a car to drive to high school. We had moved to another
town and I wanted to graduate from my old school ten miles away.. I
found a '66 coupe. It was a stock 289 2 barrel 3 speed car. It was on
that Mustang I got my motorhead degree. With the help of some friends I
built it into a street racer. Fast forward about ten years. I still
owned the coupe and decided it was time to do some restoration on it. I
had always wanted a fastback Mustang so a buddy and I spent the summer
of '82 looking for a respectable Fastback. I was going to drive the
fastback while the coupe was under work. What we found was a '68 GT350
one owner that was hurting but definitely restorable in NW Ohio
(Defiance). The owner had already sold it but a pocket full of $100
bills, an additional $500 offer and his wife allowed me to take it home.
That was in '82. I still own it. A red '68 GT350. The full story of how
I acquired the car is at CarMemories.com,
http://www.carmemories.com/cgi-bin/v...perience_id=10
My Shelby Mustang and I have been a lot of places and done a lot of things.

Dennis
CarMemories.com
Administrator


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