Shelby interview in Road & Track

[A-Snake]

Originally Posted by Mark IV

Edsel Ford was invited to become an "advisory board" member as were many other ford "celebrities", i.e Gurney, Bondurant, etc. EF was/is an enthusiast, but was not involved in starting SAAC.

Actually Edsel Ford's name does not appear on the Advisory board until the October/November 1977 issue of The Marque, about 1 1/2 years after SAAC was formed.
The rest of the names at that time on the advisory board included:
CS, Bondurant, Don Roberts, Allen Grant, Dick Smith, Al Dowd, Hal Keck, Ed Leslie, Dan Gurney, Pete Brock, Chuck Cantwell, Lew Spencer, Phil Remington, Tom Payne. Payne was also added at the same time as Edsel Ford.

[RedCSX1]

Originally Posted by A-Snake

Actually Edsel Ford's name does not appear on the Advisory board until the October/November 1977 issue of The Marque, about 1 1/2 years after SAAC was formed.
The rest of the names at that time on the advisory board included:
CS, Bondurant, Don Roberts, Allen Grant, Dick Smith, Al Dowd, Hal Keck, Ed Leslie, Dan Gurney, Pete Brock, Chuck Cantwell, Lew Spencer, Phil Remington, Tom Payne. Payne was also added at the same time as Edsel Ford.

As time went on most of these people mentioned seam to fall off the band wagon however I did see a few of them at the SAAC National conventions here and there. The Marque was a good publication its too bad that it went away. One of my gripes about SAAC was that the benefit of the publication they had offered was no longer available and the newsletter "snake bite" was a joke.