I didn't see this until now. What a great life he had. On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:02 PM, jn289 <[email protected]> wrote: > I Meet him at a Ford event at Maple Grove Raceway, He was a nice guy. There > was (is) another guy by the name of Sam Feinstein who raced a AC Cobra and > had a speed shop called Feinstein Racing in Cheltenham, Pa. I used to go > there a lot, took my Mustangs. You can search out his name and see the > records that he has with his cobra. When I get the time I will put up some > of the Cobra Photos that I shot for a magazine spread, as a tribute to > Carroll Shelby. Because of Carroll Shelby and My dad who worked at a couple > of Ford dealers, all the cars we have ever owned are Fords and we still own > Fords. Hell my oldest car is a 1954 F100 with a 390 C.I. and a C-6 Automatic > that I installed.Have a couple of old mustangs. I remember when my dad was > looking to buy a new Ford, I tried to get him to buy a 1969 Torino Cobra, > back then it was only about 3200 hundred dollars, I had all priced out with > all the Hipo stuff, but he did not buy it. Well now I also have a 1968 > Torino fastback which I used as the tow car for one of the Mustangs when I > was drag racing..Carroll Shelby, WE (I) will miss you...Joe > > > >> Another great one is gone. Saw it on our Times blog earlier today. Carroll >> was a nice guy if a bit rambunctious. First met him at an International >> Motor Press Association meeting in New York in the early eighties. He came >> to show off his Chili, then again at his mini factory in California when he >> was building a second batch of Cobras with "left over" serial numbers." >> Always entertaining. He will be missed. >> >> Paul >> On May 11, 2012, at 5:58 PM, mary pitrone wrote: >> >>> This is for you car guys on the list, Joe, Paul, Ken and who ever else >>> raced or worked on Fords. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/carroll-shelby-racer-master-car-builder-dies-age-200041629.html >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions.
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