so i'd go boom now yeah they'd be sitting there shaking their head
we took a saturday and drove up to courtesy ford which was 50 miles or so from colorado springs
and we just started walking around a lot the place was full of cars but there were a lot of mustangs
and a lot of shelbies so i said i'm going to look at the the mustangs see i didn't want to fast back
because i'd been in one and i couldn't see behind me at all and the kind of driving i
do i needed to know where people were so i kind of put those behind me and there were
three 500s gt500 fastbacks that i saw what color were those one was a metallic blue one
was a black and if i can remember right one of them may have been white four speeds or autos i
didn't look at them enough to know those were all shelby's they were all shelby's and
from just looking through the windows they look like they were all manual transmission cars
and that was okay but i still had some physical things that were difficult to deal with and i
didn't want to get in the car i didn't feel i was going to be safe driving there were at least
six shelbys on the lot none of them inside they were all out in the weather the mechanic said
with what you're looking for probably that red one over there with the black top
you probably should look at that one so we went over there and you know not being a
car buck guy but being a guy i looked in it automatically i don't know if i wanted cars
automatic i've been driving sticks and tanks so i looked around a little bit more
kink kept coming back to it and every time i came back to it it looked better
it was just one of those cars that looked good i'd never seen another car that was
structured the way it was i i'd never seen very many shelbys because they hadn't been
around all that long i'd never seen a notch back and you drive it off the lot yes i did
i drove it around a little bit i didn't know what was under the hood i didn't care what was under
the hood so you didn't know it was a 428. i didn't know it was a 428 and i really didn't know a whole
lot about shelby shelby what shelby meant that i knew it was kind of a fancy mustang did it have
two fours on it then or one four-barrel one it had one four well i found that out later later yeah it
had one one how i think it was a holley ollie on it on it and uh i did drive it home i think i paid
3 200 bucks or something for it there no warranty no no no warranty i had the money in my pocket so
i said i want that car i will take that car i'll learn that car i'll learn how to drive that car
that i'll take that card a while so this is you with the car it said exp 500 on the side of it
when you bought the car when i bought the car i asked them what that meant
because all the other cars said gt and i knew the 350s didn't have as big an engine
as the 500s and that's all i knew i didn't know what size i didn't care what size the engines were
so i was really the wrong guy to end up with this car the car i imagine didn't have the air
conditioning hooked up or did it had they they put the air conditioning back on the car i i there was
an air it may not have been air conditioned it had the fan and the heater and all that kind of stuff
inside inside i don't think it was air conditioned that yeah it originally was ordered that way but
i think they took the compressor off when they put the blowers on well i didn't take anything
off of that car at all and i didn't add anything to the car you just drove it i just drove the hell
out
you