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shelby in 1959 at LeMans pictured with girl in his winning Aston Martin

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  1. bitzman

    bitzman Well-Known Member

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    I saw a picture of Shelby standing up in his Aston Martin with a curly haired blonde lady in a country dress. It's a fuzzy picture, she looks between 20 and 35. He is wearing his chicken-pluckin' overalls. I was wondering if this woman was just a girl in the crowd put in the car to help him celebrate? I don't think it was the movie star he later married --Jan Harrison--who had straight hair. And it wasn't his wife. Just curious, most pictures I've seen taken of him that that day show him still at the wheel smoking a cigarette with a passle of people sitting on the back deck of the car as he drove to winner's circle. If you're looking in LeMans books his Aston is light green with 5 in the roundel.
     
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    "Dressing up the picture is Miss Sophie Destrade, of France, Miss Europe of 1959" (Quote JEFF WILSON, The Associated Press)
     

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