We bought the car to run autocrosses with back in '74. I have seen fuel pumps for Shelbys selling on ebay for more than we paid for the car. Since then we have always autocrossed and run open track type events with the car. So to us it is not a big deal to put the car out on the track. That is where it belongs and that is why we have it. If we want to make a "mantle piece" out of the car, we might as well sell it and get something else (which ain't gonna happen).

I think people who own a Shelby and have never put it on a track of any type, just don't understand the cars, and should own old Packards, Model A's, or maybe Corvettes (inside joke to old Shelby guys). If a Shelby has never been on a track, the owner just doesn't understand the car. As you can see from the pictures, we are FAR from the only Shelby owner that feel like this. It is a very important part of the Shelby American Collection (the museum of Shelby cars) that the cars end up on the race track. They is why they had 3 cars there from the museum on the race track, with a collective value of the 3 roughly in the $10 million range. Shelby's should not spend a life in static displays, it is just wrong.

That is my attitude about these cars.

My opinion, and everyone has one (just like body parts, choose one).