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Believe It or Not: True Stories of Forgotten Classic Cars
May 22, 2016
1968 Ford Shelby Mustang
Being from San Diego, I don’t know anyone with a barn. Apparently the rest of the USA has barns and it seems like most are holding treasures like old cars, bikes and trucks. This story caught my eye because someone left a Shelby sitting in a barn for 41 years after the owner locked it up in 1971 and never drove it again. Things like this are amazing to me because I still need to know where my star wars toys are kept and check in on them every year just to make sure I still have them. They are just toys…I couldn’t imagine just closing the doors on a Shelby and not bothering with it for forty years.
From: David Disierie Classic Cars – Amos Minter shared the story of his barn find car as well as memories of Carroll Shelby with Aaron Shelby, the grandson of the automotive legend.Crowds fascinated by old cars found in barns gathered around the classic muscle car. Awe struck by dirt dauber nests still stuck to the side windows of the barn find car, people repeatedly asked, “Are you going to wash it?”
Amos Minter, who specializes in the restoration of Ford Thunderbird’s, dismissed any such suggestion.
Minter looked around at the sparkling high dollar collectible Shelby Mustangs that lined the bank’s parking lot and then turned to his Shelby GT500 barn find to emphasize, “There are no more of these!”
Minter recovered the all-original Shelby Ford Mustang from a Mennonite barn and says it is the only 1968 black-on-black GT500 sold new in Texas. The 1968 Shelby Mustang GT500 has 66,000 original miles. Minter just restored its 428 cubic inch Police Interceptor V-8 engine with 360-horse power and its chassis.
Minter says cars are only original once.
This 1968 Shelby Mustang GT500 made its first public appearance at the 5th Annual Shelby Cobra Car Show hosted by LegacyTexas Bank in Plano on June 21, 2014. The classic car was recovered from a Mennonite barn in east Texas by Amos Minter who restores Thunderbirds.
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