New Shelby Museum Opening in Irvine CA

[Historybuff]

=over 80 cars
-most Shelby Mustangs
-many rare models that are backed by documentation

Scant feet away from the Superformance dealer.
The collector starting it is from an old farming family in the OC that bought 20-30 acres of land in the OC in the 19th century

Don't know opening date, if they have a souvenir store, or if they give occasional demonstrations like the Cunningham Museum used to do. I'll post if I find any of this out.

A press release listed some of the cars on display:

"The three lowest production serial number Cobras in history, including #1002 Cobra purchased by Ted and Rae Segerstrom in 2004 which was signed by the legendary race car designer on the nose and driver side door. “From then on, almost every time he saw us he jokingly mentioned that he hurt his back getting down to sign the door,” say the couple.

The rare and the ONLY two 1968½ SHELBY GT500KR CONVERTIBLES, which of the approximately 44 models produced in Meadowlarks Yellow, Shelby made only two in a configuration of a black convertible top, black interior, and 4-speed transmission with air conditioning and they have siblings, too!

A fully restored 1966 SHELBY GT350 FACTORY DRAG CAR, one of only four factory drag cars produced in 1966.

The only remaining 1968½ SHELBY GT500KR HERTZ CONVERTIBLE model.

1969 SHELBY GT500 in Jade Black -- a rare color on any Shelby, most particularly the 1969 GT500 convertible. This machine, in this color, equipped with the Drag Pack option and manual transmission, is the only such example ever produced.

1999 SHELBY SERIES 1 CSX5000. The SSEC’s CSX 5000 is the first one of the 5000 series produced. Just 249 of the original run of Series 1’s were made. After so many years of basing his cars upon other carmakers’ beginnings, Carroll Shelby decided he wanted to conceive and produce a car from scratch."