Virginia Classic Mustang Blog: 2022 GT350 Tour Goes Back to the Ozarks

Nov 11, 2022

2022 GT350 Tour Goes Back to the Ozarks

2022 GT350 Tour
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The GT350 Tour began in 2015 as a small gathering of GT350s. As it remains today, it is an invited group of friends staying at a resort, eating great food, driving fantastic roads, and visiting cool places for a week. Only 13 cars participated in that first Tour.

Over the years, the GT350 Tour has grown in many ways...one being the number of cars. This year, we had a whooping 38 GT350s. That is quite a few GT350 Shelbys in one single place...perhaps the most that I have personally seen together at once, especially considering that 36 of the 38 were 1965 and 1966 models. Folks were invited from all over the country including California, Connecticut, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Tennessee, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Delaware, and Ohio. Oh, and we don't want to forget one from Canada also!

While this was our seventh Tour (2016 was skipped), it was the first Tour where a previous location was repeated. This year, the GT350 Tour returned to our 2019 location of The Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgeville, Missouri. The Ozarks provided a fantastic location for touring the great roads in the Arkansas/Missouri area.

The GT350 Tour certainly does not happen all by itself! Credit goes to the organizer, Lee Cross, who just does a tremendous job putting the event together. It is an all-year job with a whole lot of pieces, fueled totally by his passion for these great cars and even better friends.