Shelby American-April 16, 2014

Was this ever a fun place to visit. This is the production facility for Shelby Motors. They have a Heritage Museum with the gigantic shop behind it, but all in one building. Shelby, founded by Carroll Shelby, is not a manufacturer of cars. They only convert cars into Shelby GTs. If they become a car manufacturer then they have to conform to all federal regulations which they feel takes away from the purity of the car. They will build a car for you but will not put a motor or transmission in it. Or they will convert the car you buy to a Shelby GT. That cleared up a lot for us. We could take pictures in the Museum but not in the shop.

It took 1000 hours to polish this aluminum Shelby Cobra. Not for sale.

 

The black one is for sale. No price on the window. One might

assume if you have to ask you can't afford it!

 

Lee Iaccoca asked Carroll Shelby to help strengthen their Dodge Dart.

It was improved to be more stable and stronger, but it didn't save Chrysler.

This car seemed so out of place in a Shelby Museum.

 

 

Blogger has decided that I cannot post anymore pictures today. I have two more I want to share, so I will do that tomorrow or whenever it allows me to do so.

 

 

There happens to be a Mustang rally as well as a Shelby bash going on in town at the same time. We did not know that until we got to Shelby American. We happened to be taking the tour when all of the cars in the Museum had to be moved to the shop in order to make room for a banquet at night. That made our tour very unique and fabulous fun at the same time. You should have heard those cars being moved. We were allowed to watch as they parked them on display for the banquet. Unbelievable noise. Great noise!

 

Two bad things about today. 1. It is spring break for Clark County public schools. That means 280,000 kids are on the streets with their parents. Not a single one of them left town apparently. It is unreal how many kids are running and screaming all over the place. 2. We have encountered more rudeness in the past two days than we have in all of our time here put together. And we're not sure why. The majority of the rude people are not from here. They all have the same accent, so do we assume their schools are on spring break, too? It is such a huge disappointment to see this much rudeness being displayed. Surely, it will get better.

 

More on Shelby American tomorrow.