Idiot wrecks his '08 Shelby
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...remember its not cars that kill people, it's idiots like that do.....
Good thing he didn't get anyone else hurt........this time
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I'm surprised a mustang enthusiast would say this.
http://www.cartype.com/pages/266/terlingua_racing_team
On many of the Shelby team race cars was a rather unusual symbol. Pictured was a "mean looking rabbit on a chrome and yellow crest." (SAAC expert Rick Kopec's words) This crest was on Ken Miles GT 350 at Green Valley, Texas, when it was raced for the first time.
The story behind the fierce rabbit crest is another colorful chapter in Carroll Shelby's story. It seems a good friend of Carroll's, David Witts, an attorney from Dallas, purchased 200,000 acres of "desert wilderness and jagged mesa located in the SW part of Texas, near Big Bend National Park and the Mexican border." On the land was a ghost town named Terlingua. The story goes something like this. Long ago three different Indian tribes used this area for sending out raiding parties to the surrounding areas. The Indians called the area Tres Linguas or three languages. The American version came to be Terlinguas. Today, Terlingua has a constant population of 9. During the boom time days of the quicksilver rush it reached 5,000 people.
That was also the very first time a GT 350 was raced. Miles won by the way. It was on Parnelli Jones's King Cobra at the 1964 LA Times Grand Prix and on four Indy 500 winners.
That crest was on cars that won at LeMans, Sebring, Riverside, Laguna Seca and graced the side of the Shelby Trans-Am Mustangs during 1967 and 1968.
The press release, found in Shelby American Issue #44 of the SAAC news magazine, explains the significance of the crest.
"The rabbit thrives in the Big Bend and being fast of foot was picked to dominate the design. He's holding up his right front foot to say "Hold the chili peppers in the chili."
The sun is there because it always is in the Big Bend Country. The feathers represent the three Indian tribes, Commanches, Apaches and Kiowa, that lived in the area and were responsible for the Terlingua name. 1860 was the year of the first known race. It was a horse-drawn wagon race over what is now referred to as the wetback expressway."
Shelby, Witt and some friend's actually set up a local government for Terlingua. All the council meetings were held at some bar or posh restaurant in Dallas. If you expressed interest in the project Witt, Honorary Mayor, made you a council member or dog catcher or commodore of the Terlingua Navy. Terlingua news always made the Dallas newspapers, probably thanks to a Dallas newspaper man who happened to be on the Terlingua City Council.
The official Terlingua bird was a buzzard. There was no official city tree because there were no trees in Terlingua. When President Johnson declared war on poverty, the Terlingua City Council wrote to see where to go to surrender. But what put Terlingua on the Texas map was the 1967 CASI (Chili Appreciation Society International) Chili Cookoff. But that's another chapter in the Carroll Shelby story.
(source: written by Dennis Begley, Car Memories)
The story behind the fierce rabbit crest is another colorful chapter in Carroll Shelby's story. It seems a good friend of Carroll's, David Witts, an attorney from Dallas, purchased 200,000 acres of "desert wilderness and jagged mesa located in the SW part of Texas, near Big Bend National Park and the Mexican border." On the land was a ghost town named Terlingua. The story goes something like this. Long ago three different Indian tribes used this area for sending out raiding parties to the surrounding areas. The Indians called the area Tres Linguas or three languages. The American version came to be Terlinguas. Today, Terlingua has a constant population of 9. During the boom time days of the quicksilver rush it reached 5,000 people.
That was also the very first time a GT 350 was raced. Miles won by the way. It was on Parnelli Jones's King Cobra at the 1964 LA Times Grand Prix and on four Indy 500 winners.
That crest was on cars that won at LeMans, Sebring, Riverside, Laguna Seca and graced the side of the Shelby Trans-Am Mustangs during 1967 and 1968.
The press release, found in Shelby American Issue #44 of the SAAC news magazine, explains the significance of the crest.
"The rabbit thrives in the Big Bend and being fast of foot was picked to dominate the design. He's holding up his right front foot to say "Hold the chili peppers in the chili."
The sun is there because it always is in the Big Bend Country. The feathers represent the three Indian tribes, Commanches, Apaches and Kiowa, that lived in the area and were responsible for the Terlingua name. 1860 was the year of the first known race. It was a horse-drawn wagon race over what is now referred to as the wetback expressway."
Shelby, Witt and some friend's actually set up a local government for Terlingua. All the council meetings were held at some bar or posh restaurant in Dallas. If you expressed interest in the project Witt, Honorary Mayor, made you a council member or dog catcher or commodore of the Terlingua Navy. Terlingua news always made the Dallas newspapers, probably thanks to a Dallas newspaper man who happened to be on the Terlingua City Council.
The official Terlingua bird was a buzzard. There was no official city tree because there were no trees in Terlingua. When President Johnson declared war on poverty, the Terlingua City Council wrote to see where to go to surrender. But what put Terlingua on the Texas map was the 1967 CASI (Chili Appreciation Society International) Chili Cookoff. But that's another chapter in the Carroll Shelby story.
(source: written by Dennis Begley, Car Memories)
Last edited by AFBLUE; 10/29/08 at 09:36 AM.
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Hey Mark, how's it going? Car looks GREAT!!! I'm a full-fledge member on TS now, and have contemplated adding white "FIA stripes" to my car, but can't get myself to pull the trigger. I found them on a site. All precut, and available. Just have to decide on adding them or not. Hope all is well dude.
Last edited by AFBLUE; 10/29/08 at 06:44 PM.
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In the thread where the victim (owner of the wall) posted on the Team Shelby Forum, he has retracted (edited out) his "drunk" remarks.
Use your usual judgment as to whether that means the driver was not drunk, just as you did by taking the reporting party's earlier statement as accurate.
"We become just by the practice of just actions,
self-controlled by exercising self-control,
and courageous by performing acts of courage."
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I would think it matters little whether the guy was drunk or not. What might seem to matter is it happened in a residential area which usually do not have high speed limits and considering the amount of damage it is not indicative of a low speed collision.
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I see someone straightened out this "Ferrari" error.
In the thread where the victim (owner of the wall) posted on the Team Shelby Forum, he has retracted (edited out) his "drunk" remarks.
Use your usual judgment as to whether that means the driver was not drunk, just as you did by taking the reporting party's earlier statement as accurate.
"We become just by the practice of just actions,
self-controlled by exercising self-control,
and courageous by performing acts of courage."
--Aristotle
In the thread where the victim (owner of the wall) posted on the Team Shelby Forum, he has retracted (edited out) his "drunk" remarks.
Use your usual judgment as to whether that means the driver was not drunk, just as you did by taking the reporting party's earlier statement as accurate.
"We become just by the practice of just actions,
self-controlled by exercising self-control,
and courageous by performing acts of courage."
--Aristotle
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The car was in the Shelby rally from Quantum Performance to the new Shelby School in Pittsburg on Sat morning. Car looked good on Sat afternoon....
Bummer he destroyed such a nice car.
The stripes and the small decal in them were applied at the Terlingua TeamShelby event about a month ago.
Bummer he destroyed such a nice car.
The stripes and the small decal in them were applied at the Terlingua TeamShelby event about a month ago.
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RIP Gt-500
What a Bummer. Life's Lessons can be Cruel. I hope the Driver Learns his Lesson well. Otherwise all is for nothing. It could have been a whole lot worse if an Innocent bystander was Hurt or Killed. There for the Grace of God goes one of us.
MGB,
Kc
What a Bummer. Life's Lessons can be Cruel. I hope the Driver Learns his Lesson well. Otherwise all is for nothing. It could have been a whole lot worse if an Innocent bystander was Hurt or Killed. There for the Grace of God goes one of us.
MGB,
Kc
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That'll buff right out.
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To those who are Curious this is the Decal on the Fender I believe. Old 60's Shelby race team Decal.
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I am not completely sure but it appears the car's Terlingua racing days are over.
It'll probably surface with a salvage title somewhere and of course, the measurements will be within the usually proclaimed millimeter. Even with if repaired by top notch experts the chassis will never be the same.
It'll probably surface with a salvage title somewhere and of course, the measurements will be within the usually proclaimed millimeter. Even with if repaired by top notch experts the chassis will never be the same.
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Why, you ask?
Because they were the ones in High School who had no friends. So all they did was study and become overachievers and get a good job making lots of money!
Now that they have lots of money, they buy a car they have no idea how to drive properly, just to prove they belong and try to get (read impress)friends they never had to begin with.