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We recently ran across the website, http://www.gyronautx1.com about the Gyronautx X-1 which captured the Land Speed Record for motorcycles in 1966. Believe it or not, there was a Mustang and Shelby American connection with one of the builders. One of the posts contains the information along with some great vintage pictures.
This very cool image is from a collection of photos sold a few months ago at a Van Eaton Galleries auction of Vintage Disneyland items. More than likely, this is a picture of a 1964 1/2 or 1965 Mustang Convertible that was given away at Grad Nite in either June of 1964 or June of 1965.
If anyone has any more information about the event, the cars, or has any pictures to share, please let us know!
I think that it is always cool to see vintage film footage of cars. This one was forwarded to me by a buddy. It was shot in San Francisco in the sixties of an SCCA race at Candlestick Park (Candlestick Point). Of particular interest here are the GT350 Shelbys and Cobras.
This video was forwarded to Chuck Cantwell, who was the Project Manager for the GT350 at Shelby American at that time. He made these comments:
Dave,
That is really interesting footage. I was there for that race. The San Francisco Region paid several drivers/owners to come. That’s why we had Phil Hill in the Cobra and Ed Leslie in the first GT350 (5R002, which I had won the Willow Springs Nationals the week before in), besides jerry Titus in the GT350 (5R001, the second racer we built), and as well as Jim Hall in the Chaparral. That was a particularly dangerous course with electric poles along the course in places and some huge (10 ft. cube) concrete blocks outside the corners at another place. Two drivers died that weekend, one a McLaren which hit one of the poles, knocked down some wires and burst into flames. And Milt Minter rolled his Lotus Super 7. The E-Jag in the pics was Merle Brennan’s Huffaker Motors car from San Fran who finished 3rd in the division after Jim Adams in the Hollywood Tiger and Jerry Titus in the Shelby GT350. At Candlestick, Jerry finished 1st and Ed Leslie finished 2nd. Those photos were neat to see. Thanks for forwarding them.
Chuck Cantwell
Thanks so much to my buddy, Dave Redman for forwarding this video to me and to Chuck Cantwell for the great comments!!
From the music side of things, I believe that this video is sort of known as the first "music video." As Classic Mustang enthusiasts though, we can really get a cool insight into how the original Mustangs were built. While the quality is not great, you can really pick up a lot of cool little details in this video showing the assembly of some 1965 Mustangs. I know that I watched it several times trying to catch those little details.
Check out Martha Reeves and The Vandellas performing "Nowhere to Run."
