Book signing June 23rd San Diego; Shelby bio

[Historybuff]

SHELBY BIOGRAPHER BOOK SIGNING IN SAN DIEGO

Wallace A. Wyss, a long time Shelby biographer (Shelby's Wildlife: the
Cobras and the Mustangs came out an incredible 40 years ago!) has authored a new book entitled SHELBY: The Man. The Cars. The Legend. He will be at OnlyYesterday Classic Autos, 10343 Roselle Street in San Diego from 10am to 12pm on Saturday, June 23rd, during which time he will give a speech on Shelby's colorful background and autograph books that are purchased.

Shelby was born in the 1920's in Texas, the son of a rural mailman. Shelby joined the Army-Air Force before WWII and served throughout the war as a flight instructor. Later he tried a variety of occupations from being a cement
contractor, oil well roughneck, and chicken farmer before settling on race
car driving. In five years he moved from nowhere to winning the biggest sports car race of them all -- the 24 hours of Le Mans for Aston Martin.

Wyss will tell the story of the AC Cobra, a car that Shelby first built in
1962 and which he is still making today! The how and why of Carroll Shelby's
success story will be told in full detail by this ultra-fan of Ford racing
cars.

Wyss will also be introducing to San Diego's high-performance Ford
fans the new book he co-authored, Ford GT40 and the New Ford GT. This book fully details the history of the original GT40's and then goes into how Ford, starting in the year 2000 designed, engineered and finally marketed in '05 and '06 a 200 mph super-car that was, for one brief shining moment, every bit the match the then-current V8-powered Ferrari! For directions, please see www.oldautos.com.

Please R.S.V.P. by June 20th to laura@oldautos.com