Historian seeing if there is market for photo file

[Historybuff]

Maybe there is someone who came along after the Shelby original era
who is building a comprehensive library to go along with their original GT40, Cobra or Shelby. I am a documentarian sitting on a pile of Cobra, Shelby and GT40 pics. I think I could put 100 of them together for someone building a library of original photos, of Cobras/Shelbys, GT40s. I never counted them but the file is about 4" high. In the old days I used to visit Ford and go through their files and pick pictures out, no problem, even visited Shelby American in 1965 on behalf of Motor Trend. Send me a private message if you are serious memorabilia collector.

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by Historybuff

Maybe there is someone who came along after the Shelby original era
who is building a comprehensive library to go along with their original GT40, Cobra or Shelby. I am a documentarian sitting on a pile of Cobra, Shelby and GT40 pics. I think I could put 100 of them together for someone building a library of original photos, of Cobras/Shelbys, GT40s. I never counted them but the file is about 4" high. In the old days I used to visit Ford and go through their files and pick pictures out, no problem, even visited Shelby American in 1965 on behalf of Motor Trend. Send me a private message if you are serious memorabilia collector.

Contact Vernon Estes, "theturd" on this forum.

[Bernica]

And check in with Ned Scudder at SAAC as well (Nedesl here). Also maybe Bob Gingold.

[my427cobra]

Not sure if you're looking for a buyer or?

It would be great to digitize the photos to a disk and give them to SAAC for historical preservation.

Then you could pass the originals on to a collector.

Just a thought.

Cheers
Greg

[A-Snake]

The question is are they YOUR original photos or taken by others? What time frame are you referencing?

[twobjshelbys]

The Shelby American Collection (in Boulder, CO) might be a good place, but they don't buy stuff. Donations accepted. They have a lot of stuff so there may be duplicates.

[my427cobra]

Oh yeah, and I'm looking for copies of historical pics, documents, brochures etc relative to Goodyear tires in the 1962 to 1970 period as I research the Shelby Goodyear Racing Distributorship for an article I'm doing for SAAC.

Any help would be appreciated. Just copies. Don't want to pillage anyone's collection.

Cheers
Greg

[Mark IV]

Originally Posted by my427cobra

Not sure if you're looking for a buyer or?

It would be great to digitize the photos to a disk and give them to SAAC for historical preservation.

Then you could pass the originals on to a collector.

Just a thought.

Cheers
Greg

Someone else's is my best guess.....

[Historybuff]

In the time I lived in Detroit prior to 1969 I would drive to Dearborn and visit a PR man from Ford who would announce "I am going to lunch, and you can have whatever you find here." So I would go for the Ford photo files and look for GT40 stuff. I also met the head photographer who was trying to save the LeMans shots, a stack 7 feet tall but his bosses wanted to throw them away. So long story short, I am willing to sell the whole pile to a historian, but don't want to endure a selection picture by picture, in essence cherry picking. You either bid on a briefcase full of pictures (I will lay them out in a rough pile and take an eerial picture) or you don't. I think you can get them from Ford but believe it or not a Ford PR man told me they had a water leak and many pictures, negatives, and their means of recording what picture is what number have been lost. So good luck on that. Minimum bid? I am thinking $3000 cash which considering the value of real GT40s is pocket change. Interested parties can reach me at photojournalistpro@gmail.com. No brokers, just collectors please!

[Nedsel]

OK, so I have to ask: are these photos that you have published in your books, or different ones?

[twobjshelbys]

Do you have copyright releases?